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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web Frontmatter -- ; Contents -- ; Preface -- ; Acknowledgments -- ; Living -- ; 1. Do the Japanese Live Better Than Americans? / Horioka, Charles Yuji -- 2. Why Avoid the Altar? / Mason, Andrew / Ogawa, Naohiro -- 3. Why Go to School after School? / Abe, Shigeyuki / Igawa, Kazuhiro -- 4. Why So Many Gifts? / Parry, Robert -- 5. Why Is Pachinko So Popular? / Abe, Shigeyuki / Mak, James -- 6. Why Are the Japanese Obsessed with Luxury Brand-Name Goods? / Nishiyama, Kazuo -- 7. Why Are There So Many Small Shops in Japan? / Mak, James / Sunder, Shyam -- 8. How Do the Japanese and Americans Spend Their Money? / Mak, James -- 9. How Can the Japanese Manage without Personal Checking Accounts? / Jinushi, Toshiki / Mak, James -- 10. What Are Most Japanese Doing on Tax Day? / McCleery, Robert K. -- Work -- ; 11. Why Do Students Take It Easy at the University? / Abe, Shigeyuki / Nishijima, Shoji / Sunder, Shyam / Lupardus, Karen -- 12. Why Do Japanese Companies Hire Only Spring Graduates? / Higa, Teruyuki -- 13. Why Don’t Workers Claim All Their Overtime? / Higa, Teruyuki / Lupardus, Karen -- 14. How Do Workers Get Paid? / Mitani, Naoki -- 15. Do the Japanese Work till They Drop? / Fukui, Yoshitaka -- 16. Why Do the Japanese Save So Much? / Horioka, Charles Yuji -- System -- ; 17. Why Is Japan a Paradise of Vending Machines? / Parry, Robert -- 18. Why Do Doctors Prescribe So Many Pills? / Kawaura, Akihiko / LaCroix, Sumner J. -- 19. Why Do Bank Automatic Teller Machines Shut Down at 7 P.M.? / Sunder, Shyam -- 20. Why Is Rice So Expensive in Japan? / Hondai, Susumu -- 21. How Can the Japanese Spend So Little on Health Care? / Loke, Matthew / Mak, James -- 22. How Does Japan’s Largest Bank Work? / Jinushi, Toshiki -- 23. Why Do So Many Japanese Contribute to Public TV? / Igawa, Kazuhiro / Mak, James -- 24. Why Are So Few People on Welfare in Japan? / Kimura, Yoko -- 25. What Are Keiretsu and Why Do Some U.S. Companies Dislike Them? / Kikuchi, Gary S. -- 26. Is Japan an Egalitarian Society? / Oshima, Harry T. -- Glossary of Japanese Terms -- ; Sources for Statistical Data on Japan -- ; About the Contributors -- ; Index In English |
ISBN: | 978-0-8248-6305-0 |
Other identifiers: | 10.21313/9780824863050 [DOI] 10.1515/9780824863050 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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