Changing Japanese Business, Economy and Society
Globalization of Post-Bubble Japan

Editors: Masao Nakamura



In order to regain its competitiveness, Japan is restructuring and globalizing its business and economics system, as well as other aspects of society. How it is resolving this is of huge interest to its global trading partners. With contributions from well-known North American and Japanese academics, this book discusses these issues from historical, analytical and empirical perspectives.

Table of contents

Front Matter

Introduction
• Introduction

Japanese Views on Globalization
• Front Matter
• Ryotaro Shiba (1923–96) and the Call for Meiji Values in a Global Age
• Surviving a Globalized World: Lessons to be Learned from Japan’s Problem-Solving Incapability
• The Mind Roaming above the Ocean: Mental Health of Young Japanese Sojourners in Vancouver
• Okinawa after the Cold War and the Return of American Military Bases

A Changing Business Environment: Individual Rights and Globalization
• Front Matter
• Aging, Female and Foreign Workers, and Japanese Labor Markets: An International Perspective
• Gaijin (Foreign) Sumo Wrestlers Help Japanese Tradition to March On: A Case Study of Foreigners in a Japanese Labor Market
• Gender as Intersectionality: Multiple Discrimination against Minority Women in Japan

Post-Bubble Japanese Business: Adjusting to the New Era
• Front Matter
• Why Does Japan Receive So Little Direct Investment from Abroad?
• Japanese Society under Marketization and Globalization
• The Post-Bubble Japanese Business System and Globalization: Implications for Japanese Society

Back Matter