1st Edition
Reforming Capitalism, Going Digital and Green Japan’s Approach
Preface
D. Hugh Whittaker and Yoshifumi Nakata
Introduction: reforming Japanese capitalism
D. Hugh Whittaker and Yoshifumi Nakata
1. Has Japan’s corporate governance reform reached a turning point? Some cautionary notes
John Buchanan and Simon Deakin
2. Japan’s quest for a sustainable, virtuous circle of growth and innovation
D. Hugh Whittaker
3. Society 5.0 and new capitalism: complementarities and contradictions
Sébastien Lechevalier
4. The transformation of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in Japan
Tateo Arimoto
5. Japan’s triple sustainability challenge
Tokutaro Nakai
6. Evidence-based policy making in Japan’s public expenditure: compatibility of fiscal health and investing for the future
Nobuo Akai
7. Much to be done in Japan’s family and gender equality policies
Nobuko Nagase
8. Can affirmative action overcome STEM gender inequality in Japan? Expectations and concerns
Hiromi M. Yokoyama, Yuko Ikkatai, Euan McKay, Atsushi Inoue, Azusa Minamizaki and Kei Kano
9. Remedying Japan’s deficient investment in people
Yoshifumi Nakata
10. The ‘new trinity’ reform of labour markets in Japan
Fangmiao Zou
11. Japan’s ‘consensual’ variety of digital capitalism and its global relevance
Harald Kümmerle and Franz Waldenberger
Biography
D. Hugh Whittaker is Professor in the Economy and Business of Japan at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, and author of the recent book Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation.
Yoshifumi Nakata is Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management and Director of the Research Institute of STEM at Doshisha University. His research focuses on the relation between work environment and engineers’ performance.
