Can Japan globalize? : studies on Japan's changing political economy and the process of globalization in honour of Sung-Jo Park

Japan's deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future? The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. **Can** **Japan Globalize?** covers a broad range of areas from macro- and micro-economic structures to political and social relations. Front Matter....Pages I-X Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Is Japan Changing?....Pages 3-17 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 The Government-Industry Relationship in Japan: What the History of the Electric Power Industry Teaches Us....Pages 21-34 Buyer-Seller Interaction and Relationship Development in the Japanese Business Market....Pages 35-49 Restructuring à la Japonaise: Supplier Relationships in the Japanese Car Industry in the 1990s....Pages 51-65 Japan’s Financial Reform....Pages 67-81 Modes of Employment in Japan....Pages 83-95 Recent Arguments on Corporate Governance in Japan....Pages 99-105 Foreign Capital and the Recent M&A Environment in Japan....Pages 107-119 Human Resource Development of Professional Workers in Large Manufacturers in Britain and Japan: A Comparative Study....Pages 121-136 Organisational Learning is Dead! Long Live Organisational Learning!....Pages 137-152 Bridging the Gap of Uncertainty: A Fragmentary Case Study of Toyota’s Prius....Pages 153-175 Japan’s General Elections of June 2000: Revolution or Ripple?....Pages 179-198 Samurai and Sarariiman : The Discourse on Masculinity in Modern Japan....Pages 199-211 Technology and Gender in Japan....Pages 213-227 “Heartful Guidance”: Fighting Juvenile Deviancy in a Japanese Community....Pages 229-241 Front Matter....Pages 243-243 The “New Asianism”....Pages 245-256 Japan’s Eurasian Diplomacy: Hard-Nosed Power Politics, Resource Diplomacy, or Romanticism?....Pages 257-274 New Networks of Foreign Aid: Cross National Comparisons of Multilateral Development Assistance....Pages 275-289 Japan’s Image of Europe and Strategy Towards It....Pages 291-303 From Scarcity to Insatiability: Globalization, Lost Variety and the Levelling of Cultural Differences....Pages 307-319 Front Matter....Pages 243-243 Cosmocorporations and Cosmoconsumers: A Note on the Identity Management of German and Japanese Transnationals....Pages 321-333 The Technological Revolution in World Markets: Strategies for Global Company Competitiveness....Pages 335-345 DaimlerChrysler’s Strategy Towards Asia....Pages 347-355 Mirroring Consensus....Pages 359-367 Transformation of the German Production System “After Japan” in the 1990s....Pages 369-378 On the Policy of Reserving Different Currencies after the Asian Crisis....Pages 379-391 A Current Picture of Internet and E-Commerce in Asia....Pages 393-404 Strategy and Localisation in China....Pages 405-417 Front Matter....Pages 419-419 Is There a Japanese Economic Crisis?....Pages 421-426 Back Matter....Pages 427-468