Books in the Routledge Library Editions: Japan series

Japan adopted the practice of using year names of 'Nengoh' during 645 AD (the first year of Taikwa). Since then the accession of a new emperor, with the exception of a few, has been marked with a new year title, exactly as has been the custom in China. This title provides a comparison of historical dates of two Oriental nations.

Investigates and presents the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present.

Considers both the opportunities and problems of the transfer of Japanese management practices to other areas in East Asia.

A study that looks at the experiences of European and American companies that have collaborated with their Japanese competitors in the fields of computers, consumer electronics, automobiles and aero-engines, by forming joint ventures, designing products together and pursuing complementary marketing strategies.

The Japanese way of work is notoriously 'different'. But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? This book explores the real differences, through a point-by-point comparison of two Japanese factories with two British ones making similar products.

Shows how Japan's banking system has maintained the continuity of development and avoided the occupiers' attempts at 'democratisation' and 'Americanisation'. This book explores why the American were committed to reform, and how important the maintenance of the financial status quo was to the development of Japan's economy.

Presents an analysis of the major policy issues confronting Japan's massive foreign aid programme. This title deals with the philosophy behind Japan's aid, Japanese reactions to the severe criticisms of its programmes and the beginnings of meaningful administrative reform of the complex aid system.

Describes the roots of Japan's aid policy and shows that this side of her international economic policy is based largely on domestic conditions, structures and forces. This book explains the patterns of Japanese aid policy-making.

A different economic system has developed in Japan, a system that differs greatly from traditional capitalism. This book provides explanations of the features of this corporate system, and shows how it differs from the system of orthodox capitalistic corporations.

Direct foreign investment and the activities of multinational corporations are the dynamic elements in the international economy. This book identifies a Japanese model of multinational business operations which has characteristics differing from the American or 'anti-trade oriented' type.

The traditional international trade theory aims only at static maximization in the use of world human and material resources. This book argues that the focus should be given to developmental elements such as population growth, immigration, and natural resource development, in order to create development centres or sectors in the world economy.

Presents a study of the extent to which an increased influx of foreign workers is a threat to law and order in the context of the data-generating process of police statistics and the media coverage of 'crimes' committed by foreigners.

Using case studies and covering topics such as the labour market, corporate organization, decision making and business transactions, this book outlines the way the Japanese organize their companies. It analyzes the approach of foreign firms, and stresses the strategies they should adopt to enhance their competitive image.

Focuses on the relationship between industrial training and technological change in three major global economies - the UK, USA and Japan. This book looks at the origins and development of training in these countries, and analyses the benefits resulting from the interaction of a skilled workforce and technological change.

Based on original research, this book studies the extent of Japanese participation in British industry, and its economic impact in a number of key areas.

The Sino-Japanese crisis of 1931-33 provides effective illustrations of wider themes in British Foreign Policy. It might even be said that the general pattern of opinion in the UK at the time was to be reproduced in subsequent crises.

To the outside observer, the character and dynamics of Japan's political parties and Diet (National Assembly) are often obscure. This title presents a description of party politics in Japan, and an analysis of the influence that a changing balance of power has had upon the functioning of the Diet.

Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who as adviser to three Emperors, coordinated and directed Japanese politics. This title tells of the story of his twilight years that chronicles the conflicts between the goals of liberalism and internationalism which dominated Japanese politics in the 1920s.

Gives true characters of Japanese speech sounds in reference to European speech sounds.

The philosophy of Buddhism, has, in Japan, come to play an important role in the everyday life of action. The understanding of this spiritual movement is an important key to the understanding of the contemporary Japanese state of mind. This title gives an account of it in the English language.

Is Japan in fact 'unique' and as such is it a society which escapes the net of conventional sociological abstractions? This book questions how special Japanese society really is, and the limitations of Western social theory in grasping the fullness of this dynamic and a complex Asian society.

Contains several introductory notes on Nomenclature, Syntax, Verbs, Aru, Iru, Oru, on Adjectives and on Foreign Words. This book focuses on connectives - the particles and suffixes which modify the sense of other words or show the relationship of these words to each other.

Analyzes what the pressure of population growth in Japan in the early 20th century consisted of, and attempts to indicate what form it would take in the future. This title examines the relationship between the number of inhabitants and the economic resources of the country, and also discusses the structure and movement of the Japanese population.

Based on the background of the rapid development of capitalism in Japan after the revolution, and the accompanying emergence of the working class, this study shows how early Japanese socialists drew on both Western influences and elements from traditional Japanese culture.

Focusing on the interconnecting themes of foreign harassment and domestic economic disorder, this title points out many areas of similarity between Japan of the 1930s and Japan of the 1980s.

Charts the transformation from a feudal society with a Confucian ethic to a 'modern, Western style economy'. This book follows the political, economic and social changes from the decline of the Tokugawa in the 1860s all the way through to the death of Emperor Hirohito and the end of the Showa era in 1989.

Presents Eastern religious and philosophical thought to Westerners.