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71. Education Reform in Japan

    A Case of Immobilist Politics

    By Leonard James Schoppa

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    The Japanese education system, while widely praised in western countries, is subject to heavy criticism within Japan. Education Reform in Japan analyses this criticism, and explains why proposed reforms have failed. The author shows how the Japanese policy-making process can become paralysed when...

    Published March 3rd 1993 by Routledge
72. Technology and Industrial Growth in Pre-War Japan

    The Mitsubishi-Nagasaki Shipyard 1884-1934

    By Yukiko Fukasaku

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    This book aims to discredit the myth that has the `unique cultural traits' of the Japanese as the key to the country's success, arguing that the more realisable foundation of long-term investment in training and research is responsible.The book looks at the development of Japan in the pre-War...

    Published December 2nd 1992 by Routledge
73. Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan

    A Political Biography

    By Stephen Large

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan.Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's political role in Showa Japan (1926-89). This...

    Published September 30th 1992 by Routledge
74. Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan

    Edited by Roger Goodman, Kirsten Refsing

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns.In Ideology and...

    Published April 1st 1992 by Routledge
75. Japanese Numbers Game

    By T Crump

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    An almost obsessional use of numbers characterizes Japanese popular culture. A wide variety of numerical formulae and strategies provide the means for explaining events and solving problems occurring in everyday life. These include such matters as the choice of the name for a child, ranking in...

    Published January 8th 1992 by Routledge
76. History of Japanese Economic Thought

    By Tessa Morris Suzuki

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    Economics, in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, Japanese thinkers had already developed, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a variety of interesting approaches to issues such as the causes of inflation, the...

    Published November 6th 1991 by Routledge
77. Britain's Educational Reform

    A Comparison with Japan

    By Mike Howarth

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    This book questions many of Britain's idiosyncratic attitudes towards education. Dimensions missing from Britain's recent reforms, but present in Japan are highlighted. The author argues that Britain could learn a lot from Japan in order to improve education and vocational training considerably....

    Published October 31st 1990 by Routledge
78. Industrial Relations in Japan

    The Peripheral Sector

    By Norma Chalmers

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    The conventional picture of industry and industrial relations in Japan is of a number of very large firms providing extremely attractive working conditions for their happy and contented workforce. Norma Chalmers shows that there is in fact another, very different side to the picture, which occurs...

    Published May 3rd 1989 by Routledge
79. Japanese Science Fiction

    A View of a Changing Society

    By Robert Matthew

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    After the Meiji Restoration of 1868 Japan modernized rapidly, transforming itself perhaps more quickly than any other country in history. However, the change was not without its conflicts, many of them still unresolved as the pleasures of modern society vie with a respect for the traditional...

    Published April 5th 1989 by Routledge