The success of competitive-communism in Japan
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The success of competitive-communism in Japan
Macmillan, 1988
- : pbk.
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 199
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780333457252
Description
For centuries Japan, although a totalitarian dictatorship, was ruled by figureheads who signed laws formulated 'behind the screen'. Hierarchy still defines everyone's status. The man at the top has power but jeopardizes his position if he ignores consensus opinions. Nowadays fashionable twentieth-century clothing cloaks a contradictory blend of intense competition with a tradition of harmony dependent on close human-relations and complex communal restraint. The Japanese organise themselves in cliques (not groups) which raise barriers against outsiders. Companies are controlled from within; shareholders are outsiders. Women are more than equal in their homes; less than equal at work. After living and managing his own business in Japan for forty years, the author explored widely before coining the term 'competitive communism' to describe Japan's economic and social system.
Table of Contents
Preface - PART 1 INTRODUCTION - Competitive-communism - Beneath the Western Veneer - PART 2 COMMUNISTIC BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE - Cliques - Outsiders - Dependence - Rationality - PART 3 CONTINUITY AND TRANSMISSION OF AN ANCIENT SOCIAL STRUCTURE - Tradition - Hierarchy - Obligations and the Law - Religions, Mythology and Morality - Communication - Women - Labour - PART 4 JAPAN IN RECENT YEARS - Japan's 'Economic Miracle' - Stone, Paper and Scissors - Is Japan a Closed Market? - Are the Japanese Efficient? - The Economic Scene - Japan's Competitive-communism - Bibliography - Index
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: pbk. ISBN 9780333457269
Description
For centuries Japan, although a totalitarian dictatorship, was ruled by figureheads who signed laws formulated "behind the screen". Hierarchy still defines everyone's status. The man at the top has power but jeopardizes his position if he ignores consensus opinions. Nowadays fashionable 20th-century clothing cloaks a contradictory blend of intense competition with a tradition of harmony dependent on close human-relations and complex communal restraint. The Japanese organize themselves in cliques (not groups) which raise barriers against outsiders. Companies are controlled from within - shareholders are outsiders. Women are more than equal in their homes - less than equal at work. After living and managing his own business in Japan for 40 years, the author explored widely before coining the term "competitive communism" to describe Japan's economic and social system.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: competitive communism
- beneath the Western veneer. Part 2 Communistic behaviour and social structure: cliques
- outsiders
- dependence
- rationality. Part 3 Continuity and transmission of an ancient social structure: tradition
- hierarachy
- obligations and the law
- religions, mythology and morality
- communication
- women
- labour. Part 4 Japan in recent years: Japan's "economic miracle"
- stone, paper and scissors
- is Japan a closed market
- are the Japanese efficient
- the economic scene
- Japan's competitive-communism.
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