Japan as-anything but-Number One by Jon Woronoff
The author attempts to dispel what he believes to be the myth of modern Japan, and finds that it is not the extraordinary success it is frequently claimed to be.
Japan as-anything but-Number One
Summary
The author attempts to dispel what he believes to be the myth of modern Japan, and finds that it is not the extraordinary success it is frequently claimed to be.
Japan as-anything but-Number One Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 Superior grades: Japanese-style management - fact or fiction?; Japanese companies - the all-mighty Kaisha; industrial policy - promoting and meddling. Part 2 Satisfactory grades: economic progress - onward if not upward; education - what is learning?; crime - integrating the criminal element. Part 3 unsatisfactory grades: politics - the Japanese way; society - discordant harmonies; internationalization time to join the world. Part 4 Inferior grades: quality of life - if you can call that quality; amenities - be it ever so humble; welfare - what is there to be entitled to?.
Additional information
NLS9780333545683
9780333545683
0333545680
Japan as-anything but-Number One by Jon Woronoff
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
1991-06-01
304
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