The Japanese


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Presents Japanese of the present day: their work, cars, family, women, education, religion, and leisure time.







The Japanese Employment System


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A study of the Japanese employment system and how it is changing in response to the economic slowdown of the last decade and the ageing of the Japanese population, this book focuses on the growth of atypical employment relations and the greater individualisation of labour-management relations.




Japanese Employment Practices


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Describes the Japanese employment system, and identifies potential problems which may provoke changes to the system.




Nonstandard Work in Developed Economies


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Comprises a collection of papers which use an interdisciplinary and cross-country comparative framework to understand why nonstandard work has grown in so many countries and its implications for workers.




The Japanese Economic and Social System


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The Japanese economy is currently at a crossroads and the embarrassing situation the country faces today is even worse than the Meiji restoration of 1868, the defeat after World War II in 1945 and the yen appreciation after the Plaza Agreements of 1985. Indeed, the traditional Japanese model is doomed to failure, mainly due to economic and industrial structures that are inappropriate towards increasing globalization, liberalization and deregulation. However, Japanese-style industrial capitalism is in this work compared to the economic and social models of other developed countries and this enables us to point out the path the Japanese economy may take in the 21st century in order to survive.