1st Edition

The Japan Handbook

Edited By Patrick Heenan Copyright 1998
340 Pages
by Routledge

350 Pages
by Routledge

The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century. The series allows the non-specialist student to explore a wide range of complex factors-social and political as well as economic-that affect the... Read more
1: History and Context; 1: The Japanese Economy Since 1945; 2: The Political System: Stability and Change; 2: Political Economy; 3: The Economic Role of the Government; 4: Sources and Uses of Energy; 5: Agriculture and Fisheries; 6: The Production Revolution in Manufacturing; 7: Marketing, Distribution, and Other Service Industries; 8: The Financial System; 9: The Role of Trade in Japan's Re-emergence; 10: Corporate Structures and the Dual Economy; 3: Society and Culture; 11: Diversity in Japanese Society; 12: Urban and Regional Development; 13: The Postwar Transformation of the Labor Force; 14: The Education System; 4: International Relations; 15: Japan's Relationship with the United States; 16: Japan and Europe; 17: Japan and China; 18: Japan and East Asia; 19: Japan and the World: From Bilateralism to Multilateralism

Biography

Patrick Heenan