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Presents a study of the extent to which an increased influx of foreign workers is a threat to law and order in the context of the data-generating process of police statistics and the media coverage of 'crimes' committed by foreigners.

Focuses on the relationship between industrial training and technological change in three major global economies - the UK, USA and Japan. This book looks at the origins and development of training in these countries, and analyses the benefits resulting from the interaction of a skilled workforce and technological change.

Using case studies and covering topics such as the labour market, corporate organization, decision making and business transactions, this book outlines the way the Japanese organize their companies. It analyzes the approach of foreign firms, and stresses the strategies they should adopt to enhance their competitive image.

Based on original research, this book studies the extent of Japanese participation in British industry, and its economic impact in a number of key areas.

Brings together research from North America, Japan, Europe and Latin America to analyse the influence of Japanese manufacturing investment and Japanese working practices across the global economy.

Presents Eastern religious and philosophical thought to Westerners.

The Manchurian 'Incident' of 1931 led to a Japanese occupation, the birth of Manchoukuo and the withdrawal of Japan from the League of Nations. At the time it seemed as if the army and navy were exerting a supreme influence. This title points out that this influence is not new and that there are strong reasons for its existence and continuance.

The Japan of 1868 was a very different society: practically every samurai was literate and it was a world in which books abounded. This book presents a survey of the development and education during the period.

Argues that contemporary forces within Japan were combining to create a strong movement for revision of the constitution and for the acquisition of nuclear weapons by renewed and powerful military establishment.

Examines how and why Japan annexed Korea in the early twentieth century and discusses the role of foreign powers (particularly the USA) in trying to bring about freedom and independence for Korea.

Looks at what the purpose and method of advanced Japanese studies should be. The author discusses areas of controversy in interpretation which arise when a comparative method is used and Japanese history is examined in correlation with world history.

Presents an account of Japan during the 'crisis' years of 1931-1935, which were the most significant in modern Japanese history.

Examines the issues surrounding the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Alliance, and looks at the possible consequences of different courses of action, against a backdrop of a Far Eastern situation under constant change.

Covers the metamorphosis from Japan's image of a feudal, exotic and romantic land inhabited by Madam Butterflies, to its sudden emergence as a geopolitical power following its defeat of Russia in 1905.

Presents an account of the author's travels during 1912-13, focusing on the characteristics of Indian, Chinese and Japanese societies and the effect upon them of contact with the West.

Direct foreign investment and the activities of multinational corporations are the dynamic elements in the international economy. This book identifies a Japanese model of multinational business operations which has characteristics differing from the American or 'anti-trade oriented' type.

Outlining the history of Japan, this book offers insights into the national psyche, and political and military planning of the Japanese in the first half of the twentieth century.

Reveals Japan's motives and designs on the economic front, pointing out the dangers of her policy of ousting Western interests and influence from East Asia during the conflict with China in Manchuria.

Examines the workings of the Japanese government, and discusses the role of the military in shaping political ideals: ideals which were a compound of Marxism and National Socialism, transformed for Japanese uses and combined with fanatical racial, national and semi-religious obsessions.

Among the revolutionary movements which shook the 19th-century world, the change of government in Japan in 1868 occupies a special place. The nature of this transformation has been regarded by western historians as 'revolution' and 'restoration' - two quite contradictory ideas. This book deals with the forces at work.

An account of rural and agricultural life in Japan in the early 1900s. It also provides information about farming, courtship, marriage, child-rearing, health care, folk religion and funeral customs in the late Meiji era, when Japan's transformation from an agrarian to an industrial society was in its initial phase.

Investigates and presents the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present.

Focusing on the four main phases of modernizing and modernized Japan beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to postmodern society, this work shows that the processes of modernization brought a coexistence of generational variation imbued with tensions, conflicts and synergies.

To the outside observer, the character and dynamics of Japan's political parties and Diet (National Assembly) are often obscure. This title presents a description of party politics in Japan, and an analysis of the influence that a changing balance of power has had upon the functioning of the Diet.

A study that describes the British government's policy towards China during the first phases of the undeclared Sino-Japanese war, starting in July 1937 and ending in September 1939 when the outbreak of the war over Poland forced the British government to turn almost all its attention to Europe.

A selection of some of the best plays of Chikamatsu, one of the greatest Japanese dramatists.