Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Melbourne : Trans Pacific Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Eades, J. S. (Jeremy Seymour), 1945-
• Gill, Tom, 1960-
• Befu, Harumi

Description

viii, 295 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Japanese society series, 1443-9670

Uniform Title

Japanese society series

Subject

• Since 1945
• Internationalisatie
• Sociale verandering
• Globalization
• Japan > Social conditions > 1945-
• 5.380

Genre/Form

Congresses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-276) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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
• SCSB-10777427

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library