Japan: Restless Competitor : the Pursuit of Economic Nationalism

Japan: Restless Competitor : the Pursuit of Economic Nationalism
ISBN-10
1903350026
ISBN-13
9781903350027
Series
Japan
Category
Social Science
Pages
274
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Psychology Press
Author
Malcolm Trevor

Description

Despite the bursting of Japan's so-called 'bubble economy' at the beginning of the 1990s and subsequent international concern regarding the nature and rectitude of Japan's banking and insurance structures and practices, the decade that followed proved hardly reassuring, highlighted as it was by a number of major cases of corporate and bureaucratic corruption. Inevitably, and increasingly, observers continue to ask 'is Japan changing?', or more, forcefully, 'is Japan capable of change?'. Notions of 'reform' and 'restructuring' are today part of the Japanese lexicon, but appear to hold little substance. Japan: Restless Competitor speaks to Europeans, Americans and others who must deal with the consequences of the Japanese equation, and to everyone who wonders what motivates Japan's politico-economic system, and whether it is changing.

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