An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. Taking a sociological approach, the text examines the multifaceted nature of contemporary Japanese society with chapters covering class, geographical and generational variation, work, education, gender, ethnicity, religion, popular culture, and the establishment. This edition begins with a new historical introduction placing the sociological analysis of contemporary Japan in context, and includes a new chapter on religion and belief systems. Comprehensively revised to include current research and statistics, the text covers changes to the labor market, evolving conceptions of family and gender, demographic shifts in an aging society, and the emergence of new social movements. Each chapter now contains illustrative case examples, research questions, recommended further readings and useful online resources. Written in a lively and engaging style, An Introduction to Japanese Society remains essential reading for all students of Japanese society.

An Introduction to Japanese Society

20th anniversary edition of "The End of History and the Last Man", a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama, author of "The Origins of Political Order". With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty. "The End of History and the Last Man" was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like. Boldly outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, Frances Fukuyama examined what had just happened and then speculated what was going to come next. Tackling religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes and war, "The End of History and the Last Man" remains a compelling work to this day, provoking argument and debate among its readers. "Awesome ...a landmark ...profoundly realistic and important ...supremely timely and cogent ...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." (George Gilder, "The Washington"). Post Francis Fukuyama was born in Chicago in 1952. His work includes "America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy" and "After the Neo Cons: Where the Right went Wrong". He now lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and children, where he also works as a part time photographer.

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The end of history and the last man : kemenangan kapitalisme dn demokrasi liberal / oleh Francis Fukuyama, penerjemah M.H. Amrullah

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BibTex List of Materials Related to the Study of Japanese History

Lean thinking has recently re-emerged as a fashionable management philosophy, especially in public services. A prescriptive or mainstream literature suggests that lean is rapidly diffusing into public sector environments, providing a much-needed rethink of traditional ways of working and stimulating performance improvements. Our study of the introduction of lean in a large UK public sector hospital challenges this argument. Based on a three-year ethnographic study of how employees make sense of lean ‘adoption’, we describe a process in which lean ideas were initially championed, later diluted and ultimately eroded. While initially functioning as a ‘mechanism of hope’ (Brunsson, 2006) around which legitimacy could be generated for tackling longstanding work problems, over time both ‘sellers’ and ‘buyers’ of the concept mobilized lean in ambiguous ways, to the extent that the notion was rendered somewhat meaningless. Ultimately, our analysis rejects current prescriptive or managerialist discourses on lean w...

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Casting the lean spell: The promotion, dilution and erosion of lean management in the NHS

(1994). Complicit exoticism: Japan and its other. Continuum: Vol. 8, Critical Multiculturalism, pp. 49-82.

Complicit exoticism: Japan and its other

Images of Japanese Society

List of figures List of tables Preface Note on transliteration, romanization and translation List of abbreviations Part I A Context for Studying Work: 1 The Japanese at work 2 Toward a sociology of work in postwar Japan 3 Competing models for understanding work in Japan Part II The Commitment to Being at Work: 4 Hours of work, labor-force participation and the work ethic Part III Processing Labor Through Japan's Labor Markets: 5 Change and challenge in the labor market 6 Segmentation of the labor market Part IV The Broader Social Policy Context for Understanding Choice at Work in Japan: 7 From labor policy to social policy: a framework for understanding labor process in Japan at the national level 8 Social security and safety nets Part V The Power Relations Shaping the Organization of Work in Japan: 9 The state of the union movement in Japan 10 Management organizations and the interests of employers Part VI The Future: 11 The future of work in Japan References Author index General index

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A Sociology of Work in Japan

Common theories of the enterprise union towards a new theory of the enterprise union a history of labour disputes in postwar Japan a history of labour-management relations on the shop floor the establishment of the enterpise union - the 1952 Densan Dispute the labour union at the shop floor under the system of joint labour-management consultations the minority union facilitating environments for the minority union conditions promoting the minority union the emergence of the new unions the future of the enterprise union.

Ross Elliott Mouer

Papers

Images of Japanese Society

A Sociology of Work in Japan

Enterprise unionism in Japan

Images of Japanese Society: A Study in the Structure of Social Reality

Exporting Japan's Culture: From Management Style to Manga