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.
This is the first book on the history of Japanese theology written by Japanese theologians. Editor Yasuo Furuya and four other eminent Japanese theologians - Akio Dohi, Toshio Sato, Seiichi Yagi, and Masaya Odagaki - clarify the tumultuous history of Japanese Christianity and describe the context, methodology, and goals shaping Japanese theology ......
Institutional Contexts, Policy Issues, and Intergovernmental Relations in Japan and the United States
Explores the effects of global socio-economic forces on the domestic policies and administrative institutions of Japan and the United States. This title explains how these global factors have shifted power and authority downward from the national government to subnational governments.
What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. This book represents the private and non- governmental indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy. It makes a contribution to the foreign policy debate.
Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Investigations in Amae
Western ideologies traditionally emphasize the concepts of individualism, privacy, freedom, and independence, while the prevailing ethos relegates dependency to a disparaged status. In Japanese society, the divergence from these western ideals can be found in the concept of amae (perhaps best translated as indulgent dependency) which is part of ......
What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. This book represents the first private and non- governmental indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy.
A comparative study of tax systems of Germany and Japan, which is an expanded version of the author's previous work, Veritable Bookkeeping Records. This volume, including new/revised material, argues that Japan should look to the EC and the US for guidance on fairer accounting principles.
Using scores of frame enlargements, drawing from a variety of historical sources, and integrating concepts from contemporary film theory, Kirihara proposes a new way of understanding Mizoguchi's films. He argues that at the heart of Mizoguchi's brilliance as a filmmaker is an obsessive need to challenge spectators, implicating them in the ......
