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Author: Shinya Arai Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520071425 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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Acknowledging no god but the corporate good, the shoshamen--high-powered professionals within Japan’s integrated trading companies-- serve as the unrelenting cogs of an economic machine. Or do they? This book takes the reader inside the world of Japan, Inc. Written by a senior executive in a major sogo shosha, this novel reveals (as no textbook can) the strategies required to win the race to the top. It also makes painfully clear the ethical and psychological choices that such a race demands.
Author: Shinya Arai Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520071425 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
Book Description
Acknowledging no god but the corporate good, the shoshamen--high-powered professionals within Japan’s integrated trading companies-- serve as the unrelenting cogs of an economic machine. Or do they? This book takes the reader inside the world of Japan, Inc. Written by a senior executive in a major sogo shosha, this novel reveals (as no textbook can) the strategies required to win the race to the top. It also makes painfully clear the ethical and psychological choices that such a race demands.
Author: Yoko Kobayashi Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351804561 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 160
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This book seeks a better understanding of the sociocultural and ideological factors that influence English study in Japan and study-abroad contexts such as university-bound high schools, female-dominant English classes at college, ESL schools in Canada, and private or university-affiliated ESL programs in Singapore and Malaysia. The discussion is based not only on data garnered from Japanese EFL learners and Japanese/overseas educators but also on official English language policies and commercial magazine discourses about English study for Japanese people. The book addresses seemingly incompatible themes that are either entrenched in or beyond Japan’s EFL context such as: Japan’s decades-long poorly-performing English education vs. its equally long-lived status as an economic power; Japanese English learners’ preference for native English speakers/norms in at-home Japanese EFL contexts vs. their friendship with other Asian students in western study-abroad contexts; Japanese female students’ dream of using English to further their careers vs. Japanese working women’s English study for self-enrichment; Japanese society’s obsession with globalization through English study vs. the Japanese economy sustained by monolingual Japanese businessmen; Japanese business magazines’ frequent cover issues on global business English study vs. Japanese working women’s magazines’ less frequent and markedly feminized discourses about English study.
Author: Mikiso Hane Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429973578 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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It has been fifty years since Japan admitted defeat and accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration following World War II. At the time, Japan was in shambles, its imperial dream shattered, and its people reduced to scrounging for sufficient food to stay alive. Yet over the past half century, Japan has remade itself and emerged as one of the leading economic powers in the world. How did Japan achieve this success, and what has this remarkable rebirth meant for the Japanese people?In Eastern Phoenix, Mikiso Hane closely examines historical factors that have contributed to Japan's postwar development politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Beginning with the occupation by U.S. forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Hane shows how American reforms and initiatives combined with the political actions of subsequent Japanese leaders to create a country able to forge ahead economically while retaining many traditional aspects of prewar Japanese society.In addition to presenting a narrative overview of important events since 1945, Eastern Phoenix provides insight into the evolution of Japan's foreign relations, internal effects of prosperity on Japanese society, and problems that remain despite extraordinary progress. The book critically examines such media-hot topics as education, environmental degradation, organized crime, racial and class discrimination, the Japanese work ethic, and the role of women in society. To provide useful context for student readers, Hane frequently punctuates his discussion by contrasting Japanese statistics with those of the United States. The book also excels in examining how artists and writers have grappled with Japan's rapidly evolving contemporary history, and Hane points the reader toward books and films that can shed additional light on Japanese perceptions of the past fifty years.
Author: Dr Malcolm Trevor Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134278349 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 300
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In this important new and controversial study about the nature and focus of the Japanese economic agenda, the author argues forcefully that the official mind-set of leading bureaucrats, top politicians and big business, makes it virtually impossible for the western industrialized world to do business on an equal footing. Put simply, it is a question of western free-market economics facing Japanese economic nationalism, which is, by its very nature, both an expansive and a protectionist ideology. International observers continue to ask is Japan changing?' or more forcefully, is Japan capable of change?'. Notions of reform' and restructuring' are today part of the Japanese lexicon, but appear to hold little substance. Trevor argues that any western notion of Japan changing fundamentally (i.e. adopting western, or Anglo-Saxon, philosophies) is facile completely unrealistic. This book is for everyone who wonders what motivates Japan's politico-economic system, and whether it is changing.
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