Research Catalog

Title

Working in Japan : an insider's guide for engineers and scientists / edited by Hiroshi Honda.

Publication

New York : ASME Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• 本田, 博
• Honda, Hiroshi.

Description

xx, 308 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Engineering > Japan
• Engineers > Employment > Japan
• Engineering
• Engineers > Employment
• Manners and customs
• Ingenieur
• arbeiten
• Japan > Social life and customs
• Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Employment of foreign-born professionals in Japan : background of the current trend / Hiroshi Honda -- Future trends in employment of foreign-born professionals / Hiroshi Honda -- Looking into companies / Hiroshi Honda -- Finding a job at a national institute / Hiroshi Honda -- Finding a job at a Japanese university / Shuichi Fukuda -- Overview of Japanese society in the global and Asian communities / Hiroshi Honda -- Historical sketch and culture of Japanese industry / Kazuo Takaiwa and Hiroshi Honda -- Features of Japanese industries versus U.S. industries as reflected in negotiations / Hiroshi Honda and Robert Latorre -- University education in Japan : a personal view / Robert M. Deiters -- Teaching in English at a Japanese university / Robert Latorre and Hiroshi Honda -- Family considerations / Deborah A. Coleman Hann and Stephen A. Hann -- General notes on adapting to life in Japan / Daniel K. Day -- The cultural gap experienced by a "gaijin" engineering executive in Japan / Raymond C. Vonderau -- Be wary of generalizations, be humble, and be fearless of the language / Craig Van Degrift -- Bridging gaps by cultural simulation / Kazuo Takaiwa --The benefits of American professional societies, their activities in Japan, and the International Congress of Mechanical Engineering Societies (ICOMES) / Hiroshi Honda -- The benefits of other international societies in Japan / Hiroshi Honda -- The benefits of Japanese professional societies / Hiroshi Honda -- Toward mutual recognition of engineering and technology education and qualification between the United States, Japan, and the rest of the world : the role and efforts of Abet and Jabee / Winfred M. Phillips [and others] -- Perspectives of industry / Peter E.D. Morgan, Charles R. Heidengren, and Dimitrios C. Xyloyiannis -- Observations on working in a national institute and a research laboratory in industry in Japan / Joyce Yamamoto -- Observations on working in Japanese universities / Hiroshi Honda, Giuseppe Pezzotti and Michael W. Barnett -- Establishing firms in Japan / Stephen A. Hann and Hiroshi Honda -- Career opportunities after Japan / Hiroshi Honda.

ISBN

• 0791801527
• 9780791801529

LCCN

00028390

OCLC

• ocm45074924
• 45074924
• SCSB-9133638

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library