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Product Description: This is a cutting-edge analysis of Japanese responses to globalization by leading Japanese scholars. It adopts a three dimensional structure, linking issues of politics/security and economy/business, at internal and external levels...read more

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Product Description: In this study the views of Japan's leading experts on the globalization of Japanese business, management and industrial relations explain how traditional Japanese-style management is responding to the changes following the collapse of the bubble economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Japanese steel industry has experienced both boom and recession over the past 30 years and is now in real decline. This study analyzes the economic, technical and political changes paying particular attention to the impact of modern technology upon employees within the industry...read more