The Japan Handbook / Edition 1

by Patrick Heenan

Overview

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 growth of developing regions in Asia, Europe, and South America. Each Handbook provides an overview chapter discussing the region's economic conditions within an historical and political context, as well as 20 or more chapter-length essays written by recognized experts, which analyze the key issues affecting a region's economy: its population, natural resources, foreign trade, labor problems, and economic inequalities, and other vital factors. In addition, the volumes offer useful support materials, including a series of appendices that include a detailed chronology of events in the region, a glossary of terms, biographical entries on key personalities, an annotated bibliography of further reading, and a comprehensive analytical index.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781579580551
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/1998
Series:	Regional Handbooks of Economic Development , #3
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Provides an overview of Japan at the end of a century in which it has undergone huge changes. Nineteen chapters present a range of complex problems and data largely restricted to events and circumstances over the past 50 years or so, and on into the early years of the coming century. Topics include history and context, political economy, society and culture, and international relations. Appendices contain a chronology, glossary, personalities, political and economic institutions, and a bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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