Table of Contents

1 Is Japan Changing?.- 2 The Government-Industry Relationship in Japan: What the History of the Electric Power Industry Teaches Us.- 3 Buyer-Seller Interaction and Relationship Development in the Japanese Business Market.- 4 Restructuring à la Japonaise: Supplier Relationships in the Japanese Car Industry in the 1990s.- 5 Japan’s Financial Reform.- 6 Modes of Employment in Japan.- 7 Recent Arguments on Corporate Governance in Japan.- 8 Foreign Capital and the Recent M&A Environment in Japan.- 9 Human Resource Development of Professional Workers in Large Manufacturers in Britain and Japan: A Comparative Study.- 10 Organisational Learning is Dead! Long Live Organisational Learning!.- 11 Bridging the Gap of Uncertainty: A Fragmentary Case Study of Toyota’s Prius.- 12 Japan’s General Elections of June 2000: Revolution or Ripple?.- 13 Samurai and Sarariiman: The Discourse on Masculinity in Modern Japan.- 14 Technology and Gender in Japan.- 15 “Heartful Guidance”: Fighting Juvenile Deviancy in a Japanese Community.- 16 The “New Asianism”.- 17 Japan’s Eurasian Diplomacy: Hard-Nosed Power Politics, Resource Diplomacy, or Romanticism.- 18 New Networks of Foreign Aid: Cross National Comparisons of Multilateral Development Assistance.- 19 Japan’s Image of Europe and Strategies Towards It.- 20 From Scarcity to Insatiability: Globalization, Lost Variety and the Levelling of Cultural Differences.- 21 Cosmocorporations and Cosmoconsumers: A Note on the Identity Management of German and Japanese Transnationals.- 22 The Technological Revolution in World Markets — Strategies for Global Company Competitiveness.- 23 DaimlerChrysler’s Strategy Towards Asia.- 24 Mirroring Consensus.- 25 Transformation of the German Production System “After Japan” in the 1990s.- 26On the Policy of Reserving Different Currencies after the Asian Crisis.- 27 A Current Picture of Internet and E-Commerce in Asia.- 28 Strategy and Localisation in China.- 29 Is There a Japanese Economic Crisis?.- Appendices.- 30 Political-Cultural Aspects of the German Reunification Experience — Possible Implications for Korea?.- 31 Applied Sciences and Global Technology Transfer — A Challenge for Universities.- 32 Worüber sprechen wir? Eine japanologische Überlegung am Beispiel von „Betrieb“ und „Gewerkschaft“.- The Authors.