Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

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31-40 of 49 results in Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

31. Production Networks in Asia and Europe

    Skill Formation and Technology Transfer in the Automobile Industry

    Edited by Rogier Busser, Yuri Sadoi

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    This book explores Japanese investment in Europe and Southeast Asia, in relation to the automobile industry. In Part I the authors examine industrial organization and policy issues in Thailand, Malaysia, The Philippines and Indonesia, looking at Japanese investment and the relative policy successes...

    Published October 22nd 2003 by Routledge
32. Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era

    Refabricating Lifetime Employment Relations

    By Peter Matanle

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    Published August 13th 2003 by Routledge
33. Nikkeiren and Japanese Capitalism

    By John Crump

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    This book provides a history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development in Japan. The author challenges the principal interpretations of how the economy functions revealing a darker side of Japanese capitalism in his...

    Published August 13th 2003 by Routledge
34. Japan's International Relations

    Politics, Economics and Security

    By Hugo Dobson, Julie Gilson, Glenn D. Hook, Christopher W. Hughes

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    This comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations. The book offers a clear and concise introduction to the most important aspects of Japan's role in the globalized economy of the twenty-first century.Japan's...

    Published July 12th 2003 by Routledge
35. Japan and UN Peacekeeping

    New Pressures and New Responses

    By Hugo Dobson

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    Japan's postwar constitution in which the Japanese government famously renounced war forever has meant that the country has been reluctant, until recently, to commit its armed forces in the international arena. However, in the last decade or so, Japan has played a much more active role in...

    Published April 30th 2003 by Routledge
36. Japan and Britain in the Contemporary World

    Responses to Common Issues

    By Hugo Dobson, Glenn D. Hook

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    Britian and Japan in the Contemporary World provides up-to-date analyses of these two countries in terms of economics, politics, security and identity on the global, regional, subnational and civic levels.The book moves beyond an analysis of state-to-state relations between Britain and Japan by...

    Published March 12th 2003 by Routledge
37. Japan and Okinawa

    Structure and Subjectivity

    Edited by Glen D. Hook, Richard Siddle

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okinawa from the perspective of political economy and society. It combines a focus on structure and subjectivity as a way to analyze Okinawa, Okinawans and their relationship with global, regional and...

    Published November 27th 2002 by Routledge
38. The Political Economy of Japanese Globalisation

    Edited by Harukiyo Hasegawa, Glenn D. Hook

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    The Political Economy of Japanese Globalisation reveals the key dimensions of Japanese globalisation today by analysing both its inward and outward manifestations. This is the first book to examine fully the issue of globalisation in relation to Japan. Organised in three parts, The Political...

    Published April 25th 2001 by Routledge
39. Japanese Education Reform

    Nakasone's Legacy

    By Christopher P. Hood

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    The Japanese education system has attracted increasing attention over the past 20 years, largely due to the belief that it has been central to Japan's economic growth. Many have felt, however that the system is stunted by an inability, or perhaps even on an incapacity, to change. This study...

    Published February 21st 2001 by Routledge
40. Japan's Contested Constitution

    Documents and Analysis

    By Glenn D. Hook, Gavan McCormack

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    Japan's Contested Constitution is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Japanese domestic politics and the international role of Japan. Subjects covered include;* the no war, `pacifist' clause* tension between the constitution and the US-Japan security treaty* the political import of the...

    Published January 31st 2001 by Routledge