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Zusatztext The individual authors have exceptionally strong credentials; the scholarship and the translations are excellent. Klappentext This two-volume book, a revision and translation of a multi-disciplinary research project carried out by the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo, analyzes the Japanese political economy from an historical perspective in order to provide a balanced view between the optimism of the 1980s and the pessimism of the 1990s. Paying particular attention to the changes in Japan's contemporary political economy that have come "from below," the authors consider marginalized social actors such as opposition parties, the aged, and female and foreign workers alongside more mainstream players such as the governing party, large corporations, and labor unions. Finally, the book examines the strong influence of the Japanese political economy on the global economy. Zusammenfassung This informative, multidisciplinary study provides an in-depth and authoritative analysis of the current state of one of the most important and influential societies and economies since the war. Inhaltsverzeichnis Volume 2: Internationalization and Domestic Issues Part 1: Internationalization 1: Kawai Masahiro: Japan as Creditor Nation: What is happening to is Net External Assets 2: Koike Kazuo: The Internationalization of the Japanese Firm: Japanese Working Practices and Indigenous Asian Workplaces 3: Hirowatari Seigo: Foreign Workers and Immigration Policy 4: Wada Haruki: Economic Co-operation in Place of Historical Remorse: Japanese Post-War Settlements with China, Russia, and Korea in the Context of the Cold War. Normalizing Relations with the Soviet Union, China, and South Korea Part 2: Domestic Issues 5: Osawa Mari: The Feminization of the Labour Market 6: Harada Sumitaka: The Aging Society, the Family, and Social Policy 7: Inamoto Yonosuke: The Problem of Land Use and Land Prices Part 3: Facing the Post-Cold War/Post-Bubble World 8: Nitta Michio: Employment Relations after the collapse of the Bubble Economy 9: Hiwatari Nobuhiro: The Argument: Explaining the End of the Postwar Party System ...
