R Taggart Murphy

Japan and the Shackles of the Past

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A concise yet penetrating overview of Japan, from a historical, social, political, economic, and cultural perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 167mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 774g
• ISBN-13: 9780199845989
• ISBN-10: 0199845980
• Artikelnr.: 40497567

Autorenporträt

R. Taggart Murphy is Professor and Program Chair of the MBA Program in International Business at the Tokyo campus of the University of Tsukuba. He is the author of award-winning books on modern Japan and a number of articles in publications from the New Republic to the National Interest and the New Left Review. A former investment banker, he has also taught at the university's main campus, was a Non-Resident Senior Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and is a coordinator of the web's leading clearing-house for serious writing on Japan, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Does Japan Still Matter?
Part One: Past
Chapter One: Japan Before the Edo Period.
Chapter Two: The Incubation of the Modern Japanese State.
Chapter Three: Restoration to Occupation
Chapter Four: The Miracle
Chapter Five: The Institutions of High-speed Growth
Chapter Six: Consequences (Intended and Otherwise)
Part Two: Present
Chapter Seven: Economy and Finance
Chapter Eight: Business
Chapter Nine: Social and Cultural Change
Chapter Ten: Politics
Chapter Eleven: Japan and the World
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes