Can Japan Globalize?

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.

Interdisciplinary examination of Japan's present problems A rich and stimulating insight in today's Japan and its struggle to find its new global role

Inhalt
1 Is Japan Changing?.- 2 The Government-Industry Relationship in Japan: What the History of the Electric Power Industry Teaches Us.- 3 Buyer-Seller Interaction and Relationship Development in the Japanese Business Market.- 4 Restructuring à la Japonaise: Supplier Relationships in the Japanese Car Industry in the 1990s.- 5 Japan's Financial Reform.- 6 Modes of Employment in Japan.- 7 Recent Arguments on Corporate Governance in Japan.- 8 Foreign Capital and the Recent M&A Environment in Japan.- 9 Human Resource Development of Professional Workers in Large Manufacturers in Britain and Japan: A Comparative Study.- 10 Organisational Learning is Dead! Long Live Organisational Learning!.- 11 Bridging the Gap of Uncertainty: A Fragmentary Case Study of Toyota's Prius.- 12 Japan's General Elections of June 2000: Revolution or Ripple?.- 13 Samurai and Sarariiman: The Discourse on Masculinity in Modern Japan.- 14 Technology and Gender in Japan.- 15 Heartful Guidance: Fighting Juvenile Deviancy in a Japanese Community.- 16 The New Asianism.- 17 Japan's Eurasian Diplomacy: Hard-Nosed Power Politics, Resource Diplomacy, or Romanticism.- 18 New Networks of Foreign Aid: Cross National Comparisons of Multilateral Development Assistance.- 19 Japan's Image of Europe and Strategies Towards It.- 20 From Scarcity to Insatiability: Globalization, Lost Variety and the Levelling of Cultural Differences.- 21 Cosmocorporations and Cosmoconsumers: A Note on the Identity Management of German and Japanese Transnationals.- 22 The Technological Revolution in World Markets Strategies for Global Company Competitiveness.- 23 DaimlerChrysler's Strategy Towards Asia.- 24 Mirroring Consensus.- 25 Transformation of the German Production System After Japan in the 1990s.- 26On the Policy of Reserving Different Currencies after the Asian Crisis.- 27 A Current Picture of Internet and E-Commerce in Asia.- 28 Strategy and Localisation in China.- 29 Is There a Japanese Economic Crisis?.- Appendices.- 30 Political-Cultural Aspects of the German Reunification Experience Possible Implications for Korea?.- 31 Applied Sciences and Global Technology Transfer A Challenge for Universities.- 32 Worüber sprechen wir? Eine japanologische Überlegung am Beispiel von Betrieb und Gewerkschaft.- The Authors.