Title | Japan after the Economic Miracle [electronic resource] : In Search of New Directions / edited by Paul Bowles, Lawrence T. Woods |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4277-9 |
Descript | IX, 327 p. online resource |
I. Searching for new directions: the Japanese challenges and responses -- 1. Japanโs postwar Fordism: an historical perspective on the economic crisis in Japan -- 2. Restoring the legitimacy of Japanese business in the post-bubble era: can good economics make good ethics easier? -- Changing behaviour of Japanese consumers -- 4. Back in the race: Japan and the Internet -- 5. New directions in Canadaโs Japanese-owned automobile plants -- 6. Producing and managing hazardous waste in Japan -- 7. Sustainability of farm settlements in Japan after the economic miracle: a case study of Onoji hamlet and Yamanashi prefecture -- 8. New directions in Japanese urban planning: a case study of Nagoya -- 9. the aging of Japanese society: human resource management in transition -- 10. Contemporary party politics in Japan: an old wine in a new bottle? -- II. Searching for new directions: the Canadian challenges and responses -- 11. Breaking into the Japanese Market: Canadian companies and the challenge of doing business in Japan -- 12. Learning with a new media -- 13. History of Japanese language education at UBC, 1956โ1998: challenges and future directions -- 114. Teaching Japanese to a multicultural student population -- 15. Beyond boundaries: Japanese migrant women in North America