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Author : Erland Heginbotham,Gretchen W. Shinoda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : UCSD:31822016940876
Author : Ulrike Schaede
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801460555
Between 2002 and 2008, Japan's economy saw constant expansion, a record among the world's advanced economies and Japan's longest period of economic growth since World War II. This remarkable achievement came about because of a transformation of Japanese business practices. This transformation was guided by strategies that enabled Japan's leading corporations, previously diversified to an exceptionally high degree, to become leaner, more nimble, and more competitive at home and in the global economy. In Choose and Focus, the first in-depth account of this strategic inflection point in Japanese business, Ulrike Schaede argues that the emerging practices and attitudes have created a New Japan. Drawing on profiles of several corporations, including Panasonic, Takeda and Astellas, Softbank, kakaku.com, and SBI E*Trade, Schaede explains how the fundamental principles of Japan's economy have been overturned. "Choose and focus" strategies, whereby corporations concentrate on core areas and spin off unrelated businesses, have completely altered the strategic logic of Japan's previous industrial architecture. These surprisingly aggressive moves, Schaede finds, have created new market opportunities for start-up enterprises and foreign investors, as well as a wave of mergers, acquisitions, and hostile takeovers that have shaken Japanese companies out of complacency. Unlike the advances made by Japanese firms in the 1970s and 1980s, the current transformation is taking root in component and materials industries rather than in consumer products. Because of the relative obscurity of the changes and the overshadowing story of China's ascent, the Japanese corporate revolution has gone largely unnoticed among Western observers. Choose and Focus is required reading for anyone doing business in Japan or trying to understand how contemporary Japanese business works and how Japanese corporations have reinvented themselves to face the challenges—and realize the opportunities—of the 21st century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Industries
ISBN : UOM:35128002163176
Author : Erland Heginbotham,Gretchen W. Shinoda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:49015002844810
Author : Jennifer Milioto Matsue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317649540
Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan explores a diversity of musics performed in Japan today, ranging from folk song to classical music, the songs of geisha to the screaming of underground rock, with a specific look at the increasingly popular world of taiko (ensemble drumming). Discussion of contemporary musical practice is situated within broader frames of musical and sociopolitical history, processes of globalization and cosmopolitanism, and the continued search for Japanese identity through artistic expression. It explores how the Japanese have long negotiated cultural identity through musical practice in three parts: Part I, "Japanese Music and Culture," provides an overview of the key characteristics of Japanese culture that inform musical performance, such as the attitude towards the natural environment, changes in ruling powers, dominant religious forms, and historical processes of cultural exchange. Part II, "Sounding Japan," describes the elements that distinguish traditional Japanese music and then explores how music has changed in the modern era under the influence of Western music and ideology. Part III, "Focusing In: Identity, Meaning and Japanese Drumming in Kyoto," is based on fieldwork with musicians and explores the position of Japanese drumming within Kyoto. It focuses on four case studies that paint a vivid picture of each respective site, the music that is practiced, and the pedagogy and creative processes of each group. The accompanying CD includes examples of Japanese music that illustrate specific elements and key genres introduced in the text. A companion website includes additional audio-visual sources discussed in detail in the text. Jennifer Milioto Matsue is an Associate Professor at Union College and specializes in modern Japanese music and culture.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Industries
ISBN : UGA:32108036363250
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : LCCN:93114372
Author : Celia Tidmarsh
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 083686722X
Explores the history, culture and people of Japan, an archipelago consisting of 6,800 Asian islands.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PURD:32754077533028
Author : Walter E. Grunden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060866350
While previous writers have focused primarily on strategic, military, and intelligence factors, Walter Grunden underscores the dramatic scientific and technological disparities that left Japan vunerable and ultimately led to its defeat in World War II.
Author : Eika Tai
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888528455
Comfort Women Activism follows the movement championed by pioneer activists in Japan to demonstrate how their activism has kept a critical interpretation of the atrocities against women committed before and during World War II alive. The book shows how the challenges faced by the activists have evolved from the beginning of their uphill battles all the way to contemporary times. They were able to change social attitudes and get their message across. Yet the ambiguous position of post–World War II Japan’s government—which has consistently rejected any sign of guilt over its imperialist past—has kept the activists on their toes. Pivotal and serendipitous turning points have also played a crucial role. In particular, in the early 1990s, the post-Soviet world order assisted in creating the appropriate conditions for the movement to gather transnational support. These conditions have eroded over time; yet due to the activists’ fidelity to survivors, the movement has persisted to this day. Tai uses the activists’ narratives to show the multifaceted aspects of the movement. By measuring these narratives against scholarly debates, she argues that comfort women activism in Japan could be called a new form of feminism. “A manuscript of this depth covering such a range of material about the comfort women movement has not previously been available in English. I am deeply impressed by the author’s scholarly commitment and humanitarian compassion. The accounts provided in the book are particularly moving, putting a human face on the transnational comfort women movement that has had a global impact.” —Peipei Qiu, Vassar College “Eika Tai urges a postcolonial understanding of how activists in Japan came to embrace the issue of ‘comfort women,’ make it their own, and engage on a transnational, multigenerational effort. Her book is an absolutely clear rejection of those who portray this historical topic as activism meant to ‘hate Japan.’ Instead, she claims that this issue is at the heart of a divided Japan.” —Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1405 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Elliott Smith
Publisher : Lerner Publications TM
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728470191
The US government forced Japanese Americans to live in US incarceration camps during World War II (1939–1945). Through photographs from the past and present, discover how fear and racism led to the incarceration camps, what life in the camps was like, and what happened after Japanese Americans left the camps. Then learn about US incarceration camps’ connection to modern issues and see how people are making sure this difficult time in history is never forgotten or repeated. Read WokeTM Books are created in partnership with Cicely Lewis, the Read Woke librarian. Inspired by a belief that knowledge is power, Read Woke Books seek to amplify the voices of people of the global majority (people who are of African, Arab, Asian, and Latin American descent and identify as not white), provide information about groups that have been disenfranchised, share perspectives of people who have been underrepresented or oppressed, challenge social norms and disrupt the status quo, and encourage readers to take action in their community.
Author : Paulo V. Broglio
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nervous system
ISBN : 1600215319
Neuroimmunology is a rapidly-growing branch of biomedical science that studies of all aspects of the interactions between the immune system and nervous system. It deals with, among other things, the physiological functioning of the neuroimmune system in states of both health and disease; malfunctions of the neuroimmune system in disorders (autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivities, immune deficiency), the physical, chemical and physiological characteristics of the components of the neuroimmune system in vitro, in situ, and in vivo. Despite the brain's status as an immune privileged site, an extensive bi-directional communication takes place between the nervous and the immune system in both health and disease. Immune cells and neuroimmune molecules such as cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors modulate brain function through multiple signalling pathways throughout the lifespan. Immunological, physiological and psychological stressors engage cytokines and other immune molecules as mediators of interactions with neuroendocrine, neuropeptide, and neurotransmitter systems. For example, brain cytokine levels increase following stress exposure, while treatments designed to alleviate stress reverse this effect. This book presents leading research in the field.
Author : A. G. Hernandes
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Antisense RNA
ISBN : 1600214916
Antisense molecules interact with complementary strands of nucleic acids, modifying expression of genes. Some regions within a double strand of DNA code for genes, which are usually instructions specifying the order of amino acids in a protein along with regulatory sequences, splicing sites, non-coding introns and other complicating details. For a cell to use this information, one strand of the DNA serves as a template for the synthesis of a complementary strand of RNA. The template DNA strand is called the transcribed strand with antisense sequence and the mRNA transcript is said to be sense sequence (the complement of antisense). Because the DNA is double-stranded, the strand complementary to the antisense sequence is called non-transcribed strand and has the same sense sequence as the mRNA transcript (though T bases in DNA are substituted with U bases in RNA). This book presents important new research from around the world in this field.
