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-to-day workings of a transnational American company in Japan in the late 1990s as employees try to establish a comfortable place …

This book explores gender, labour and class in Korea and Japan, both during the twentieth century and today. It shows … factors in shaping the cultures of industrialization in both Japan and Korea …

Examines changing employment practices in Japan, focusing on the position of the Japanese firm that is confronted with …

Despite recent upheavals, Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers at the end of the twentieth century. Yet … the Japanese economy is one of the most misunderstood phenomena in the modern world. Aimed at graduate courses on Japan … upheavals, Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers. Yet the Japanese economy is one of the most misundersto …

explains why Japan and Taiwan have experienced different levels of improvement in women's economic status over the last half …