Category: Japan

By Martin Beck

Traditionelle Wettbewerbsanalysen sind für Unternehmen oft unbefriedigend: Zum einen basieren sie auf einem Vergleich nationaler Branchen, zum anderen leiten sie sich aus den in Geschäftsberichten veröffentlichten Jahresabschlußdaten ab. Diese Analysen bieten nur beschränkt konkrete Ansatzpunkte für betriebliche Verbesserungen. Aufbauend auf dem Ansatz Michael Porters erweitert Martin Beck die traditionelle Vorgehensweise um die examine der Wertkette eines Produktgruppen-/ Marktsegmentes im Werkzeugmaschinenbau - einem insbesondere aus deutscher Sicht bedeutenden Zweig der Investitionsgüterindustrie der Triade. Der Autor demonstriert anhand einzelner Unternehmen für das relativ homogene section „horizontale Bearbeitungszentren“, wie Kosten- und Leistungsvorteile in Wertkettenprozessen zu Wettbewerbs- und damit zu Gewinnvorteilen führen.

By Donald Keene

This delightfully written e-book offers the Western reader with an advent to a couple of the main attractive and noteworthy components of jap literature. an exceptional pupil, Donald Keene writes in a lucid and obtainable type, devoting separate chapters to poetry, theater, and the radical, and shutting with a bankruptcy at the impact of the West on eastern literature. hence the e-book is right now a quick background of the literature and a severe figuring out of it. additionally integrated is a bibliography of histories and different reference works, in addition to an inventory of novels and different prose in translation, in order that readers who desire to may fit past the scope of this creation.

By Edward Maunde Thompson

The guides of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made on hand edited (and occasionally translated) early bills of exploration. the 1st sequence, which ran from 1847 to 1899, includes a hundred books containing released or formerly unpublished works through authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and overlaying voyages to the recent global, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volumes sixty six and sixty seven of the sequence, edited by way of E. M Thompson and primary released in 1883, include the majority of the diary of Richard Cocks (c.1565-1624), supplemented by means of a range of letters. Cocks was once the top of a buying and selling put up confirmed in Japan via the British East India corporation from its origin in 1613 until eventually 1622, while it went into chapter 11. His diary describes eastern society and tradition within the early 17th century, in addition to the actions of British retailers there.

By Committee on Japan, National Research Council

By Ian Nish

This a learn of the Manchurian and Shanghai crises, the 1st severe war of words among Japan and the realm group. The Manchurian quandary was once one of many significant foreign crises of the interval among global Wars I and II. For Britain and the US, it bred a brand new mistrust of jap long term nationwide ambitions. It additionally introduced domestic to all involved the weaknesses of the League of countries and the opposite tools of collective defense which were devised to accommodate difficulties of the Pacific Ocean quarter. the 1st concentration of this learn is on how one of many foreign our bodies of the time, the League of countries, tried to deal with the emergency that broke out within the east in September 1931. the second one concentration is at the conflict of attitudes in jap politics. The interval coated through the Manchurian main issue was once the purpose while civilian govt in Japan used to be heavily challenged for the 1st time within the twentieth century. The booklet deals a clean account of the trouble, employing new fabrics, in eastern and in English, that have develop into on hand and which were drawn upon for this paintings. those throw new mild at the struggles either inside of Japan and between League lovers to make sure that Japan, the Asian-state which was once straight away so much sturdy and economically such a lot winning, are usually not turn out in isolation.

By Richard B. Finn

Singular for its breadth and stability, Winners in Peace chronicles the yankee career of Japan, an episode that profoundly formed the postwar international. Richard B. Finn, who participated within the career as a tender naval officer and diplomat, tells the complete tale of the actions from 1945 to 1952. He makes a speciality of the 2 major actors, common Douglas MacArthur and jap leading Minister Shigeru Yoshida, and information the era's significant occasions, courses, and personalities, either American and Japanese.Finn attracts on a magnificent variety of sources--American, eastern, British, and Australian--including interviews with approximately 100 individuals within the career. He describes the struggle crimes trials, constitutional reforms, and American efforts to rebuild Japan. The paintings of George Kennan in making political balance and fiscal restoration the head targets of the USA turned severe within the face of the constructing chilly War.Winners in Peace will reduction our realizing of Japan today--its financial development, its variety of govt, and the robust pacifist spirit of its humans.

By James Mark Shields

Within the overdue Nineteen Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties, the relative calm international of eastern Buddhist scholarship used to be thrown into chaos with the ebook of numerous works via Buddhist students Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro, devoted to the merchandising of anything they referred to as serious Buddhism (hihan bukkyo). of their quest to reestablish a 'true' - rational, moral and humanist - type of East Asian Buddhism, the serious Buddhists undertook a thorough deconstruction of ancient and modern East Asian Buddhism, quite Zen. whereas their arguable paintings has got a few recognition in English-language scholarship, this can be the 1st book-length therapy of serious Buddhism as either a philosophical and non secular circulation, the place the traces among scholarship and perform blur. offering a severe and confident research of severe Buddhism, fairly the epistemological different types of critica and topica, this ebook examines modern theories of information and ethics that allows you to situate serious Buddhism inside smooth eastern and Buddhist notion in addition to with regards to present developments in modern Western concept.

By Stephen Turnbull

Over the centuries, naval family members among Japan and Korea seem to have alternated among peaceable exchange and outright hostility. in spite of the fact that, this impact could be deceptive, as a lot of what handed for mercantile job used to be in truth performed via eastern pirate fleets, who pillaged the coasts of Korea and China in a lasting culture that culminated within the maximum pirate raid of all: Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea in 1592. This used to be the clash that concerned Ming China and nearly dragged in Siam. It additionally resulted in Korea constructing East Asia's most famed warship: the mythical turtle send, that's defined for the 1st time in complete technical element during this ebook.

By Kent E. Calder

Regardless of the iconic significance of the U.S.–Japan safety alliance, the wider dating among the 2 nations is this day beset via sobering new problems. during this entire comparative research of the transpacific alliance and its political, fiscal, and social foundations, Kent E. Calder, a number one Japan expert, asserts that bilateral kinfolk among the 2 nations are dangerously eroding as either search broader innovations in a globally orientated world. Calder records the quiet erosion of America’s multidimensional ties with Japan as China rises, generations switch, and new forces come up in either American and eastern politics. He then assesses results for a twenty-first-century army alliance with bold coordination necessities, explores replacement overseas paradigms for facing the U.S., followed via Britain, Germany, and China, and gives prescriptions for restoring U.S.–Japan kinfolk to power once more.

By J M W Silver