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The Transition from Technocracy to Aristocracy in Japan, 1955-2003
The core issue underlying the bulk of scholarly research into the Japanese political economy is the relationship between the bureaucracy and the politicians. My study investigates whether there has been a relative decline in bureaucratic influence and whether politicians are displaying more independence in the policy making process than they did during previous decades. My main hypothesis is that the loss of bureaucratic influence has largely been a function of the declining position of former bureaucrats within the ruling Liberal Democrat Party (LDP), and that it has largely been politicians who were able to enter the Diet at a young age due to hereditary recruitment who have gained influen...
History of Contemporary Japan, 1945-1998
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan
This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a regular basis. There are some similarities between the two systems of capital punishment but there are also many striking differences. These include differences in capital jurisprudence, execution method, the nature and extent of secrecy surrounding death penalty deliberations and executions, institutional capacities to prevent and discover wrongful convictions, orientations to lay participation and to victim participation, and orientations to “democracy” and governance. Johnson also explores several fundamental issues about the ultimate criminal penalty, such as the proper role of citizen preferences in governing a system of punishment and the relevance of the feelings of victims and survivors.
The Many Lives of Kenneth Myer
When Kenneth Baillieu Myer's father fell dead on the footpath in 1934, Ken's life changed in an instant. As the eldest son of the Jewish immigrant retailing genius, Sidney Baevski Myer, who went from pedlar to philanthropist millionaire in fifteen years, 13-year-old Ken was immediately acknowledged as head of the family. Despite a conventional education at Geelong Grammar and a year at Princeton University, Ken was an unconventional man. He had hit headlines when he was born and continued to make news throughout his life-as the powerful Executive Chairman of Myer; in his refusal to be Governor-General of Australia; with his separation and divorce from his wife Prue and remarriage to a Japane...
Phänomen Toyota
Im Jahre 1936 baute TOYOTA sein erstes Auto. 2004 war Toyota mit einem Börsenwert von ca. 120 Milliarden Dollar das höchst bewertete Automobilunternehmen der Welt - dies entspricht dem Wert der gesamten deutschen Automobilindustrie (BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Porsche, Volkswagen) - mit der höchsten Produktivität und dem höchsten Gewinn. TOYOTA wird in zahlreichen Reports als die "most admired company" aufgeführt. Diese beispiellose Entwicklung wirft Fragen auf: Warum ist TOYOTA so erfolgreich? Was macht TOYOTA anders als andere Automobilunternehmen? Der Autor, selbst viele Jahre in der Automobilindustrie tätig, argumentiert überzeugend, dass der Erfolg von TOYOTA in der Unternehmenskultur begründet ist. Eine konsequente Beachtung ethischer Normen, die man hierzulande als preußische Tugenden bezeichnen würde, ist Schlüssel zum phänomenalen Erfolg TOYOTAs. Ein "Muss" für jeden Automanager und für alle, die sich für die Erfolgsmechanismen in dieser Industrie interessieren.
