Contemporary Japan, Volume 34, Issue 1 (2022)

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Japan’s Employment System and Human Resource Management – Coping with increasing adjustment pressures: Guest Editor: Parissa Haghirian

Editorial

Editorial
Message from the editor
Franz Waldenberger
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 15 Mar 2022
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Introduction

Introduction
Japan’s employment system and human resource management – coping with increasing adjustment pressures
Parissa Haghirian
Pages: 3-12
Published online: 15 Mar 2022
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The deepening divide In Japanese employment: The increasing marginalization of contract workers as explained by path dependence, vested interests, and social psychology
Patricia (Tish) Robinson, Catherine Sibala, Kiyohiko Ito & Vicki L. Beyer
Pages: 13-41
Published online: 15 Mar 2022
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Working the shopping mall: Labour shortages and the dualities in Japan’s labour economy
Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
Pages: 42-57
Published online: 15 Mar 2022
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Employment of senior workers in Japan
Philippe Debroux
Pages: 58-86
Published online: 15 Mar 2022
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Mutual learning between Japanese managers and foreign subordinates: Enablers for middle-up-down management under role definition flexibility at Japanese headquarters
Kenta Koyama
Pages: 87-105
Published online: 15 Mar 2022
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Book Review

Book Review
The political history of modern Japan: Foreign relations and domestic politics
by Kitaoka Shinichi. Translated by Robert D. Eldridge with Graham Leonard, London, Routledge, 2018, 274 Pages, 32.99 GBP (Paperback), ISBN 9781138337671
Jeremy A. Yellen
Pages: 106-108
Published online: 04 Aug 2020
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Kulturen der Katastrophenberichterstattung – Eine Interviewstudie zur Fukushima-Krise in deutschen und japanischen Medien (Cultures of catastrophe-coverage – an interview study of the Fukushima crisis in the German and Japanese media)
by Florian Meißner, Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 2019, 440 pp., ISBN 978-3-658-26126-9
Frank Rövekamp
Pages: 108-111
Published online: 30 Jun 2020
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Making meaningful lives: Tales from an aging Japan
by Iza Kavedžiji, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, 216 pp., $45,00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780812251364
Nora Kottmann
Pages: 112-114
Published online: 13 Sep 2020
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Christian sorcerers on trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka incident
translated and with an introduction by Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman Nakai, and Mark Teeuwen, New York, Columbia University Press, 2020, 408 pp., US$118.48 (hardback), ISBN: 0231196903
William Farge
Pages: 114-117
Published online: 17 Dec 2020
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Making Xavier’s dream real: Vernacular writings of catholic missionaries in modern Japan
by Nanyan Guo, Tokyo, Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2020, 232 pp., JPY 3000 (hardback), ISBN: 9784866581347
Simon Hull
Pages: 118-121
Published online: 25 Jan 2021
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The heavenly land and the land of the rising sun: Historical linkages, security cooperation and strategic partnership
The heavenly land and the land of the rising sun: Historical linkages, security cooperation and strategic partnership, by Adarsha Verma, KW Publishers, New Delhi, 2020, 297 pp., US$70.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-93-89137-45-3
Astha Chadha
Pages: 121-122
Published online: 04 Feb 2021
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Disruptions of daily life: Japanese literary modernism in the world
by Arthur M. Mitchell, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2020, 276 pp., US$ 55.00 (hardback), ISBN13: 9781501752919
Angela Yiu
Pages: 123-124
Published online: 15 Feb 2021
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