heterogeneous approach / Robert Barsky -- Time of troubles : the yen and Japan's economy, 1985-2008 / Maurice Obstfeld -- The Japan …, land prices, and the monetary transmission mechanism in Japan / John Muellbauer and Keiko Murata -- The Japanese employment … system after the bubble burst : new evidence / Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato -- Labor immobility in Japan : its causes and …

-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 …

Capitalist World-Economy -- 3 The MIDAs-Steel-Ships Nexus -- 4 Creating Japan's Coal-Exporting Peripheries -- 5 Replicating Japan …

Discontents -- 7 Germany: From Dependence on Persian Gulf Oil to Russian Gas -- 8 Japan: Across-the-board Energy Insecurity -- 9 …