"Workplace safety has never been seen as sexy, clever, or cool. Fraught with legislative hurdles, ambiguous policy, and complex procedures, despite its alleged importance safety has lost its way. For many organisations safety is seen as burdensome and bureaucratic and has become little more than...

Introduction: China and Japan in the global economy / Tomoo Kikuchi and Masaya Sakuragawa -- Will the 21st century be an Asian century? : a global perspective / Masahiro Kawai -- Geopolitics in East Asia / Huang Jing -- Regional integration : is Europe special / Sahoko Kaji -- The Chinese...

"This book underscores the historical evolution of the capitalist world system since the sixteenth century, elucidating the eighteenth-century fall and contemporary rise of China, India, and Pakistan. Emphasizing the importance of both economic and strategic powers for nations, the narrative...