Abstract This study examined the reasons for the decline in the plaintiff win rate in medical lawsuits in Japan since …

Abstract Der Beitrag vergleicht atypische Beschäftigungsformen in Japan und Deutschland, zwei Ländern mit … Deutschland, wo das „Equal-treatment-Prinzip“ besser verankert ist als in Japan, fallen die Benachteiligungen auch nicht ganz so …Abstract The paper compares atypical forms of employment in Japan and Germany, two countries with different regulatory …

Enterprises (WISEs) in Japan. The second part of the paper draws on the findings of a qualitative study of 18 WISEs to identify … and characterize different models of WISEs in Japan. Three major dimensions were observed: i) social goal of the … knowledge about emerging, or already well-established, social enterprise models in Japan. This, in turn, could foster …

, urbanisation, energy consumption, and economy affect the volume of CO 2 emission in Japan. The World Bank database was used to … emission in the long run; the trade volume does not directly affect the emission of CO 2 in Japan. Besides, the ratio of the …

Abstract Japan went 15 years earlier than Europe through a boom-and-bust cycle in the real estate and stock markets … and recapitalization of financial institutions. Japan has reached the zero interest bound in 1999 and has accumulated a … very high public debt level. The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons …

Japan. The research explored how Japanese workers acknowledge, exercise, identify and diffuse kaizen in a sustainable manner … the organisation, where no universal definition appears to exist yet differing ideologies are tolerated. Kaizen in Japan … business contexts. It contributes to the development of practitioner understanding of the utility of kaizen in Japan through …