This paper analyses the evolution of the image of Western corporations asemployers in Japan since 1945. It shows how the changing perception of Westerncompanies in Japan has influenced their position in the Japanese labour market andtheir ability of successfully recruiting highly qualified...

Institutional and semi-institutional networks between employers and educational institutions have been noted as important mechanisms in the transition from school to work in Japan. At the university level, long-term trust relationships between universities and companies were important ties in...

"Looking at Japan, this book traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures. Mired in national crises since the early 1990s, Japan has had to respond to a rapid population decline; the...