Europe and the Japanese Challenge

Europe and the Japanese Challenge PDF Author: Mark Mason
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198292647
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
A study of the history of Japanese involvement and investment in Europe from the early part of this century to the present day. The main focus of the analysis centres on the auto industry consumer electronics and banking, whilst the different reactions to Japanese investment in Europe and the United States is also considered.

European Power and The Japanese Challenge

European Power and The Japanese Challenge PDF Author: William R. Nester
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134912995X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
Analyzing relations amidst the European Community's growing unity and Japan's ever more dynamic economy, this book compares the processes, means, ends, successes and failures of European and Japanese industrial, trade and foreign policies. Nester has also written "Japan and the Third World".

The Japanese Challenge in Europe

The Japanese Challenge in Europe PDF Author: Business International S.A.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations, Foreign
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description


Japan’s Decision For War In 1941: Some Enduring Lessons

Japan’s Decision For War In 1941: Some Enduring Lessons PDF Author: Dr. Jeffrey Record
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786252961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 105

Book Description
Japan’s decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point of suicidal. How could Japan hope to survive a war with, much less defeat, an enemy possessing an invulnerable homeland and an industrial base 10 times that of Japan? The Pacific War was one that Japan was always going to lose, so how does one explain Tokyo’s decision? Did the Japanese recognize the odds against them? Did they have a concept of victory, or at least of avoiding defeat? Or did the Japanese prefer a lost war to an unacceptable peace? Dr. Jeffrey Record takes a fresh look at Japan’s decision for war, and concludes that it was dictated by Japanese pride and the threatened economic destruction of Japan by the United States. He believes that Japanese aggression in East Asia was the root cause of the Pacific War, but argues that the road to war in 1941 was built on American as well as Japanese miscalculations and that both sides suffered from cultural ignorance and racial arrogance. Record finds that the Americans underestimated the role of fear and honor in Japanese calculations and overestimated the effectiveness of economic sanctions as a deterrent to war, whereas the Japanese underestimated the cohesion and resolve of an aroused American society and overestimated their own martial prowess as a means of defeating U.S. material superiority. He believes that the failure of deterrence was mutual, and that the descent of the United States and Japan into war contains lessons of great and continuing relevance to American foreign policy and defense decision-makers.

British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914–1941

British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914–1941 PDF Author: A. Best
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023028728X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
This is the first full-length study of the role played by British Intelligence in influencing policy towards Japan from the decline of the Alliance to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Using many previously classified records it describes how the image of Japan generated by Intelligence during this period led Britain to underestimate Japanese military capabilities in 1941. The book shows how this image was derived from a lack of adequate intelligence resources and racially driven assumptions about Japanese national characteristics.

Transforming Japanese Business

Transforming Japanese Business PDF Author: Anshuman Khare
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811503273
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
This book explores how the business transformation taking place in Japan is influenced by the digital revolution. Its chapters present approaches and examples from sectors commonly understood to be visible arenas of digital transformation—3D printing and mobility, for instance—as well as some from not-so-obvious sectors, such as retail, services, and fintech. Business today is facing unprecedented change especially due to the adoption of new, digital technologies, with a noticeable transformation of manufacturing and services. The changes have been brought by advanced robotics, the emergence of artificial intelligence, and digital networks that are growing in size and capability as the number of connected devices explodes. In addition, there are advanced manufacturing and collaborative connected platforms, including machine-to-machine communications. Adoption of digital technology has caused process disruptions in both the manufacturing and services sectors and led to new business models and new products. While examining the preparedness of the Japanese economy to embrace these changes, the book explores the impact of digitally influenced changes on some selected sectors from a Japanese perspective. It paints a big picture in explaining how a previously manufacturing-centric, successful economy adopts change to retain and rebuild success in the global environment. Japan as a whole is embracing, yet also avoiding—innovating but also restricting—various forms of digitalization of life and work. The book, with its 17 chapters, is a collaborative effort of individuals contributing diverse points of view as technologists, academics, and managers.

South East Asia, Colonial History: Imperial decline: nationalism and the Japanese challenge (1920s-1940s)

South East Asia, Colonial History: Imperial decline: nationalism and the Japanese challenge (1920s-1940s) PDF Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415215435
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
The six volumes that make up this unique set provide an extensive overview of colonialism in South-East Asia. In the majority of cases, authors chosen were specialists writing about their individual areas of expertise, and had first-hand experience in the region. Outline of contents: * I. Imperialism before 1800 [Edited by Peter Borschberg] * II. Empire-Building in the Nineteenth-Century * III. High Imperialism * IV. Imperial Decline: Nationalism and the Japanese Challenge * V. Peaceful Transitions to Independence * VI. Independence through Violent Struggle

American Power, the New World Order and the Japanese Challenge

American Power, the New World Order and the Japanese Challenge PDF Author: W. Nester
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023037428X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 495

Book Description
This book analyzes US-Japan relations amidst the changing nature of power and international relations. Chapters explore the relative successes and shortcomings of American liberalism and Japanese Neomercantilism, the bilateral trade duels over finance, high technology, agriculture, and other industries, and the costs and benefits of foreign investment and military spending. The book concludes with suggestions for a systemic and radical overhaul of American policies toward itself, the global economy, and Japan.

Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads

Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads PDF Author: Yutaka Kawashima
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815796153
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
The post–World War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness. The current generation has become increasingly resentful of the prolonged economic stagnation and feels a sense of drift and uncertainty about the future of Japan's foreign policy. In J apanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads, Yutaka Kawashima clarifies some of the defining parameters of Japan's past foreign policy and examines the challenges it currently faces, including the quagmire on the Korean Peninsula, the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance, the management of Japan-China relations, and Japan's relation with Southeast Asia. Kawashima—who, as vice minister of foreign affairs, was Japan's highest-ranking foreign service official—cautions Japan against attempts to ensure its own security and well-being outside of an international framework. He believes it is crucial that Japan work with as many like-minded countries as possible to construct a regional and international order based on shared interests and shared values. In an era of globalization, he cautions, such efforts will be crucial to maintaining global world order and ensuring civilized interaction among all states.

European Power and the Japanese Challenge

European Power and the Japanese Challenge PDF Author: William R. Nester
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780333578964
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
This book analyzes European-Japanese relations in the context of Europe's economic unity and Japan's increasing market domination. Differing historical development has brought these two players to the same stage, and that difference is the cause of friction, misperception, and miscalculation. Nester here gives parallel overviews of this historical development as background for the study of the current processes, ends, successes, and failures of European and Japanese industrial, trade, and foreign policies. Equally important, he examines the present situation for signs of the future evolution of this contentious relationship.