Globalization and social change in contemporary Japan / edited by J.S. Eades, Tom Gill, Harumi Befu.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Melbourne : Trans Pacific Press, 2000.
Description
viii, 295 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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Summary note
International scholars specializing in Asian culture and politics, explore the recent changes in Japanese society, arguing in opposition to the traditional belief that Japanese culture is somehow more static than others. Papers examine topics such as international migration, economic globalization, trends in values, women in the workplace, yakuza gangsters, and the art of making Buddhist altars in light of a global economy.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-276) and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Introduction: globalization and social change in contemporary Japan / Jerry Eades
  • Globalization as human dispersal: from the perspective of Japan / Harumi Befu
  • The globalizations of Japanese managers / Mitchell W. Sedgwick
  • Trends in value change in contemporary Japan / Ulrich Möhwald
  • Education reform in Japan: fixing education or fostering economic nation-statism? / Brian McVeigh
  • The diversification of employment and women's work in contemporary Japan / Beverley Bishop
  • Blurring the boundaries of the Buraku (min) / John H. Davis, Jr.
  • Yoseba and Ninpudashi: changing patterns of employment on the fringes of the Japanese economy / Tom Gill.
  • (cont.) The Yakuza and the law / Wolfgang Herbert
  • Houses of everlasting bliss: globalization and the production of Buddhist atlars in Hikone / Carla and Jerry Eades, Yuriko Nishiyama, and Hiroko Yanase
  • A mountain of problems: ethnography among Mount Haguro's feuding Yamabushi / Andreas Riessland
  • Received dreams: consumer capitalism, social process, and the management of the emotions in contemporary Japan / John Clammer.
ISBN
1876843012
LCCN
^^2001269084
OCLC
45162850
RCP
H - S
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