Parties, Candidates, and Voters in Japan

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Political Leadership in Contemporary Japan

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• Those who do not read Japanese seldom have access to analytic studies of the fascinating and surprisingly diverse world of contemporary Japanese polit... Lees meer

A Student Guide to Japanese Sources in the Humanities

Yasuko Makino, Masaei Saito

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• This work is directed at students who are about to start library research for papers, theses, and dissertations. It walks readers through the process ... Lees meer

Continuous Improvement

Paul Lillrank, Noriaki Kano

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• Quality Control Circles (QCCs) are small groups of workers from the same workshop, which meet, often on their own time, to discuss ways to improve the... Lees meer

The Japanese Automotive Industry

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• As the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies reflected on the deteriorating position of the domestic auto industry in the fall of 1980, a... Lees meer

Survey of Japanese Collections in the United States, 1979-1980

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• Scholarly inquiry into any distant culture is considerably promoted when the materials on which it is based are made proximate to the inquiring schola... Lees meer

Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan

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• The late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Japan, which were dominated by social upheavals and political conflicts, were the scene of a funda... Lees meer

The Sting of Death" and Other Stories

Toshio Shimao

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies | nr. 12
• Until a recent "boom," Shimao Toshio, writer of short fiction, critic, and essayist, was not widely known, even in Japan. He has never won the Akutaga... Lees meer

Sukeroku's Double Identity

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• The aim of this book is to show that seemingly illogical double identity of the townsman, Sukeroku, and the samurai, Soga Goro, in the play Sukeroku i... Lees meer

Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan

Robert C. Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies | nr. 11
• This study is a result of three continuous years of fieldwork in a hamlet in rural Japan. The data presented and analyzed here consist of records from... Lees meer

Industry at the Crossroads

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies | nr. 7
• The mood of the first U of M U.S.-Japan Auto conference in January 1981 could only be described as electric. People wanted to know what our problems w... Lees meer

The American Automobile Industry

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies | nr. 13
• Amid the gloom, indeed the despair, that prevailed among auto industry spokesmen during early 1981, the University of Michigan held the first U.S.-Jap... Lees meer

Culture and Religion in Japanese-American Relations

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My Life

Sumii Sue, Masuda Reiko

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies | nr. 26
• Sumii Sue (1902-97), author and human rights leader, was best known for her novel about childhood in a burakumin village, The River with No Bridge (Ha... Lees meer

A History of Japan's Government-Business Relationship

Phyllis Genther

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies | nr. 20
• Despite the economic and political importance of the U.S.-Japan relationship and the extensive attention paid to automotive trade, few American schola... Lees meer

Japanese Educational Productivity

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• Japanese Education Today , the first volume resulting from the U.S. Study of Education in Japan, made important contributions to our understanding of ... Lees meer

Automobiles and the Future

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies | nr. 10
• At the time of the U.S.-Japan auto conferences in March 1983, the hoped-for economic recovery as manifested in auto sales had revealed itself quite mo... Lees meer

The Tale of Saigyo

Meredith McKinney

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies | nr. 25
• The Tale of Saigyo is a poetic biography of the late Heian poet Saigyo (1118-90), one of the most loved and respected poets in Japanese literary histo... Lees meer