Japan in the 1990s:crisis as an impetus for change

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Corporate Authors: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung. Jahrestagung (2002 Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg))
Group Author: Foljanty-Jost Gesine.
Published: Lit Distributed in North America by Transaction,
Publisher Address: Münster Piscataway, NJ
Publication Dates: c2004.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Politik ; Bd. 11
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Carrier Form: 224 p.: ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 3825873463 (pbk.)
9783825873462 (pbk.)
Index Number: F131
CLC: F131.39-532
Call Number: F131.39-532/J356/2002
Contents: Contributions were presented at the annual conference of The German Association of Social Scientific Research of Japan (VSJF), held at Halle University in 2002.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Japan in the 1990s : crisis as an impetus for change? / Gesine Foljanty-Jost -- Quo vadis keiretsu? Structural change in Japanese inter-firm relations in the 1990s / Andreas Moerke -- Subcontracting industries in Japan in the 1990s / Silke Bromann -- Japanese corporations in the 1990s : the end of the "Japanese style" management? / Takeo Kikkawa -- Changes in the Japanese employment system : facts and speculations / Franz Waldenberger -- The change of personnel development within Japan's large-scale enterprises since 1947 with regard to the professionalisation of blue- and white-collar work / Mikiko Eswein -- Political immobilism, economic malaise, and institutional changes : Japan's political economy in the last decade / Kenji Hirashima -- Japan's position in the Asian context since the 1990s / Reinhard Drifte -- Changes in political paradigms : the end of one-party-dominance? / Paul Kevenhörster -- Civil society in times of depolitisation : do NPOs and referenda make a difference in Japan in the 1990s? / Wilhelm Vosse -- The end of a success story? Japanese education and educational policy in the 1990s / Gesine Foljanty-Jost -- The Yasukuni jinja debate : dealing with symbols of the past / Gebhard Hielscher -- The history textbook controversy as an indicator of national self-reflection / Steffi Richter.