An explanation of the inner workings of the US-Japan alliance. It recommends approaches to sustaining this critical bilateral security relationship, discussing where the alliance came from, how it is managed, and the strategic decisions that will have to be made in the future.
In this book, Edward J. Lincoln tackles the thorny issue of U.S. trade relations with Japan, the subject of so much tension in the 1990s. In so doing, he builds on his earlier Brookings book, Japan's Unequal Trade.
Deregulation has been at the top of Japan's economic policy agenda for many years. Now, in the midst of a financial crisis that engulfs all of Asia, pressures on the Japanese government for substantial reform--coming from both inside and outside forces--are stronger than ever.
A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of an American Anthropologi
Providing a look inside a Japanese elementary school, this work is based on a year of detailed observation by an American anthropologist and her children. The book sets out to show the advantages and disadvantages of a school system very different from the American one.
Japan today is caught up in chronic economic crisis, its financial system wracked by record-breaking bankruptcies and its companies hobbled by bad balance sheets, overproduction, and weak consumer demand.
Offers variety of perspectives on the different immigration debates within the two countries and the divergent policies they have generated. In 15 papers from a November 1994 workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, explores the history of incorporating migrants into the workforce and society, rights
A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologi
With an anthropologist's keen eye, the author takes us through a full year in a Japanese public elementary school, bringing us into the classroom with its comforting structure, lively participation, varied teaching styles, and non-authoritarian teachers.
Institutional Contexts, Policy Issues, and Intergovernmental Relations i
Explores the effects of global socio-economic forces on the domestic policies and administrative institutions of Japan and the United States. This title explains how these global factors have shifted power and authority downward from the national government to subnational governments.
Traces the struggle between US and Japanese semiconductor producers from its origins in the 1950s to the novel experiment with "managed trade" embodied in the US-Japan Semiconductor Trade Arrangements of 1986, and the current debate over continuation of elements of that agreement.