Since the 1960s, the Asian Tigers have combined economic success and autocratic politics. This book explores the complex transitions under way in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, as the leaderships shift their economic and political relationships in order to survive in the global economy.
Are Japanese women happy with their roles, or are they frustrated with the limitations of their traditional arrangement? This book explores the many facets of Japanese women's lives, looking at education, marriage, child rearing, the workplace and the political arena.
This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries. Professor Totman raises the critical question of how Japan's steeply mountainous woodland has remained biologically healthy despite centuries of ......
Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey,and the United States
Majorities are made, not born. This book argues that there are no pure majorities in the Asia-Pacific region, broadly defined, nor in the West. Numerically, ethnically, politically, and culturally, societies make and mark their majorities under specific historical, political, and social circumstances. This position challenges Samuel Huntington s ......
A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children
Providing a look inside a Japanese elementary school, this work is based on a year of detailed observation by an American anthropologist and her children. The book sets out to show the advantages and disadvantages of a school system very different from the American one.
Offers variety of perspectives on the different immigration debates within the two countries and the divergent policies they have generated. In 15 papers from a November 1994 workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, explores the history of incorporating migrants into the workforce and society, rights
Careers, Development and Control in Corporate Britain and Japan
This text questions the authenticity of the popular image of Japanese personnel and management development, which has been held up as a model in Europe, the US and elsewhere. It uses a comparative approach to address such topics as different systems of selection and recruitment, and contrasting approaches to management control. Japan and Britain ......
A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children
With an anthropologist's keen eye, the author takes us through a full year in a Japanese public elementary school, bringing us into the classroom with its comforting structure, lively participation, varied teaching styles, and non-authoritarian teachers.
