"The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work … reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan but also in reflexive anthropology, women's studies, field methods, the …

Health Insurance Politics in Japan -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Text … -- Introduction: To Understand the Health Insurance Policy Development in Japan -- 1. Westernizing Medicine -- 2. Reacting to …

Context -- 3 The Transformation of the East Asian Political Economy -- 4 Japan and the Transformation of the East Asian …

ACQUISITIONS -- 5.1. Introduction: Why Are There Fewer Mergers and Acquisitions in Japan? -- 5.2. The Trend of Mergers: The JFTC … Data -- 5.3. Mergers and Acquisitions in Japan, 1980-1987 -- 5.4. Are Mergers and Acquisitions Profitable or Contributing …

success, contrasting the industrial and social organization of the world's two largest economies, the US and Japan. The author … strength of the world's two largest economies, the United States and Japan, are based on two different forms of industrial and …

mounted for Japan to move to a shareholder-value driven, 'Anglo-American' system of corporate governance. Subsequent changes …

productivity dynamics during economic crises in Japan. …

infused with English ideas, interests, and institutions. In countries like Japan and Argentina, where nationalist concerns …

.1. Elites in Qing China -- 3.2. The Western Challenge -- 3.3. Qing Response -- Endnotes -- 4 Tokugawa and Meiji Japan -- 4.1. In … Two Mirrors -- 4.2. Elites in Tokugawa Japan -- 4.3. The Meiji Restoration -- Endnotes -- Part III Traps, 1910-1955 -- 5 … Growth Acceleration in Japan, 1910-1938 -- 5.1. Agriculture and the Decline of a Rural Elite -- 5.2. Infrastructure and …