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1. Life in a Japanese Women's College

   Learning to be Ladylike

   By Brian J. McVeigh

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   One third of the Japanese female workforce are 'office ladies' and their training takes place in the many women's junior colleges. Office ladies are low-wage, low-status secretaries who have little or no job security.Brian J. McVeigh draws on his experience as a teacher at one such institution to...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Nature of the Japanese State

   Rationality and Rituality

   By Brian J. McVeigh

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Brian J. McVeigh uses a unique anthropological approach to step outside flawed stereotypes of Japanese society and really engage in the current debate over the role of bureaucracy in Japanese politics.To many in the West, Japan appears as a paradox: a rational, high-tech economic superpower and yet...

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge