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Japan's deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future?
The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan Globalize? covers a broad range of areas from macro- and micro-economic structures to political and social relations.

Japan's deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future?
The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan Globalize? covers a broad range of areas from macro- and micro-economic structures to political and social relations.

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CONTENTS
Introduction
  1 Is Japan Changing? / Malcolm Trevor = 3
Part One : The Internal Preparations
  Ⅰ The Economy : Towards the Market Principle?
    2 The Government-Industry Relationship in Japan : What the History of the Electric Power Industry Teaches Us / Takeo Kikkawa = 21
    3 Buyer-Seller Interaction and Relationship Development in the Japanese Business Market / Sam Dzever = 35
    4 Restructuring \bprimea la Japonaise : Supplier Relationships in the Japanese Car Industry in the 1990s / Arne Holzhausen = 51
    5 Japan's Financial Reform / Kurt G o ·· rger = 67
    6 Modes of Employment in Japan / Michio Nitta = 83
  Ⅱ The Firm : Towards Open Structures?
    7 Recent Arguments on Corporate Governance in Japan / Kazuo Shibagaki = 99
    8 Foreign Capital and the Recent M&A Environment in Japan / Shinobu Muramatsu = 107
    9 Human Resource Development of Professional Workers in Large Manufacturers in Britain and Japan : A Comparative Study / Kazuo Koike = 121
    10 Organisational Learning is Dead! Long Live Organisational Learning! / John B. Kidd = 137
    11 Bridging the Gap of Uncertainty : A Fragmentary Case Study of Toyota's Prius / Enno Berndt ; Andr \bprimee Metzner = 153
  Ⅲ The Society : Towards Pluralism?
    12 Japan's General Elections of June 2000 : Revolution or Ripple? / J. A. A. Stockwin = 179
    13 Samurai and Sarariiman : The Discourse on Masculinity in Modern Japan / Anette Schad-Seifert = 199
    14 Technology and Gender in Japan / Ilse Lenz = 213
    15 "Heartful Guidance" : Fighting Juvenile Deviancy in a Japanese Community / Gesine Foljanty-Jost = 229
Part Two : The External Preparations
  Ⅳ Foreign Relations : Asian or Global Leadership?
    16 The "New Asianism" / Peter Duus = 245
    17 Japan's Eurasian Diplomacy : Hard-Nosed Power Politics, Resource Diplomacy, or Romanticism / Reinhard Drifte = 257
    18 New Networks of Foreign Aid : Cross National Comparisons of Multilateral Development Assistance / Paul Kevenh o ·· rster = 275
    19 Japan's Image of Europe and Strategies Towards It / Andr a' s Hern a' di = 291
  Ⅴ Global Markets : The New Paradigm
    20 From Scarcity to Insatiability : Globalization, Lost Variety and the Levelling of Cultural Differences / Galen Amstutz = 307
    21 Cosmocorporations and Cosmoconsumers : A Note on the Identity Management of German and Japanese Transnationals / Sierk A. Horn = 321
    22 The Technological Revolution in World Markets - Strategies for Global Company Competitiveness / Carsten Fussan = 335
    23 DaimlerChrysler's Strategy Towards Asia / Karin Funke = 347
  Ⅵ Japan and Globalization : Who Shapes Whom?
    24 Mirroring Consensus / Joop A. Stam = 359
    25 Transformation of the German Production System "After Japan" in the 1990s / Ulrich J u ·· rgens = 369
    26 On the Policy of Reserving Different Currencies after the Asian Crisis / Yoshiaki Takahashi = 379
    27 A Current Picture of Internet and E-Commerce in Asia / Kerstin Teicher = 393
    28 Strategy and Localisation in China / Dieter Beschorner ; Marc-Oliver Thurner = 405
Epilogue
  29 Is There a Japanese Economic Crisis? / Johan Galtung = 421
Appendices
  30 Political-Cultural Aspects of the German Reunification Experience - Possible Implications for Korea? / Ulrich Albrecht = 429
  31 Applied Sciences and Global Technology Transfer - A Challenge for Universities / Gerhard Ackermann ; Wolfgang Jahnke = 439
  32 Wor u ·· ber sprechen wir? Eine japanologische U ·· berlegung am Beispiel von "Betrieb" und "Gewerkschaft" / Wolfgang Seifert = 443
The Authors = 461