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Lone Mothers And Welfare-To-Work Policies In Japan And The United States: Towards An Alternative Perspective, Aya Ezawa, Chisa Fujiwara
Lone Mothers And Welfare-To-Work Policies In Japan And The United States: Towards An Alternative Perspective, Aya Ezawa, Chisa Fujiwara
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This paper compares recent efforts to reduce lone mothers' reliance on cash assistance and support their increased participation in the workforce and economic independence in Japan and the United States. Similar to reforms introduced in the U.S. in 1996, lone mother policies in Japan have been subject to a series of cuts leading to the introduction of time limits and work-related programs in 2002. In this paper, we examine the character of recent welfare reforms in both countries and their implications for lone mothers' welfare and economic independence. Based on Japan's experience and recent lessons from the U.S., we show …
Japan's Quandary Over East Asia Summit, Kori Urayama
Japan's Quandary Over East Asia Summit, Kori Urayama
Kori Urayama
No abstract provided.
Twentieth Century Economics Of Child-Rearing In Japan, Michele Gibney
Twentieth Century Economics Of Child-Rearing In Japan, Michele Gibney
Michele Gibney
In order to explain the falling Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Japan, it is necessary to look at the social factors affecting women and raising children in Japan. By examining historical factors surrounding women in Japan—their education, their presence in the workforce, and the cultural stigmas attached to their stereotypical representation—I will attempt to describe the deteriorating TFR in Japan as an economic problem with political and social repercussions. In conclusion I will also try to provide a prognosis and a recommendation for a solution.
The Impact Of Ownership Structure On Wage Intensity In Japanese Corporations, Toru Yoshikawa, Phillip H. Phan, Parthiban David
The Impact Of Ownership Structure On Wage Intensity In Japanese Corporations, Toru Yoshikawa, Phillip H. Phan, Parthiban David
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
The authors studied the effect of ownership structure on human capital investments as indicated by wage intensity, defined as the ratio of expenditure on employee wages to sales, in a sample of 996 Japanese manufacturing firms during their economic recession of 1998-2002. They found that domestic shareholders, with interests beyond financial considerations, enhance wage intensity, especially when performance is low, and thereby safeguard human capital investments. Foreign shareholders with sole interest in financial returns have an opposite effect; they reduce wage intensity when firm performance is low.
Ownership Structure, Investment Behaviour And Firm Performance In Japanese Manufacturing Industries, Eric Gedajlovic, Toru Yoshikawa, Motomi Hashimoto
Ownership Structure, Investment Behaviour And Firm Performance In Japanese Manufacturing Industries, Eric Gedajlovic, Toru Yoshikawa, Motomi Hashimoto
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Using data spanning the 1996-98 fiscal years of 247 of Japan's largest manufacturers, we empirically evaluate the extent to which a firm's investment behaviour and financial performance are influenced by its ownership structure. To do so, we examine six distinct categories of Japanese shareholders: foreign investors, investment funds, pension funds, banks and insurance companies, affiliated companies and insiders. Our findings strongly indicate that the relationship between the equity stakes of a particular category of investor and a firm' s financial performance and investment behaviour is considerably more complex than is depicted in simple principal-agent representations. Such a result emphasizes the …
Japan’S War With China: Context And Stakes, Michele Gibney
Japan’S War With China: Context And Stakes, Michele Gibney
Michele Gibney
The context in which Japan was drawn into war with China, and what they had at stake going in, are flip sides of the same coin. The contexts and stakes are: democratic government, will of the people, international status, foreign trade, the Emperor, and racial superiority. In the 1920’s and 30’s, Japan was losing the ideal of democracy, the desire to have democracy, and the will of the people. They were drawn into the war with China in order to reunite the citizenry and because of a failed democratic leadership being supplanted by right wing militarists. International status and foreign …
Enjo Kosai: Brand Name Marketing, Michele Gibney
Enjo Kosai: Brand Name Marketing, Michele Gibney
Michele Gibney
Media is a contributing factor in creating a market for the prostitution of minors in Japan today. Media creates an image to which the girls aspire by placing the trendiest items in the hands of music and movie idols who the girls look up to . The drive to then own these trendy, and expensive, products forces the girls into marketing their bodies to strangers. Though in many ways media can be seen as the root of all evil through print and film advertisements, there are some forms of media which work as a caution instead of an encouragement to …
Effects Of Board Structure On Firm Performance: A Comparison Of Japan And Australia, Ingrid Bonn, Toru Yoshikawa, Phillip H. Phan
Effects Of Board Structure On Firm Performance: A Comparison Of Japan And Australia, Ingrid Bonn, Toru Yoshikawa, Phillip H. Phan
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
This article compares the effects of board size, proportion of female directors, proportion of outside directors and average age of directors on firm performance in Japanese and Australian firms. We found that board size and age of directors were negatively associated with the performance of Japanese firms. For Australian firms, outsider ratio and female director ratio were positively associated with performance.
China Debates Missile Defence, Kori Urayama
Bodies In Motion: Contemplating Work, Leisure, And Late Capitalism In Japanese Fitness Clubs, Elise M. Edwards
Bodies In Motion: Contemplating Work, Leisure, And Late Capitalism In Japanese Fitness Clubs, Elise M. Edwards
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Review article of:
Laura Spielvogel. 2003. Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Japanese Capitalism In Crisis: A Regulationist Interpretation (Book Review), Ramzi N. Frangul
Japanese Capitalism In Crisis: A Regulationist Interpretation (Book Review), Ramzi N. Frangul
WCBT Faculty Publications
Book review by Ramzi N. Frangul.
Boyer, R., & Yamada, T. (Eds.). (2000). Japanese capitalism in crisis: A regulationist interpretation. Routledge.
ISBN 9780415205597
Potential For Floating Offshore Wind Energy In Japanese Waters, A. R. Henderson, R. Leutz, Tomoki Fujii
Potential For Floating Offshore Wind Energy In Japanese Waters, A. R. Henderson, R. Leutz, Tomoki Fujii
Research Collection School Of Economics
The prospects for large scale commercialisation of sea-bed-mounted offshore windfarms are currently excellent, with the existing small-scale prototype windfarms currently being joined by the first large-scale parks in the shallow seas off the Danish, German, Swedish, Dutch, Belgian, British and Irish coasts. However other countries, including Japan, have much more limited regions of the shallow waters suitable for such developments and hence other concepts will also need to be utilised if offshore wind energy is also to become a major source of energy there.
Asian Expatriate Development: A Comparative Study Of Japanese, Korean And Singaporean Expatriates, A. Ahad M. Osman-Gani, Wee Liang Tan
Asian Expatriate Development: A Comparative Study Of Japanese, Korean And Singaporean Expatriates, A. Ahad M. Osman-Gani, Wee Liang Tan
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Owing to rapid internationalization of business activity, human resource development (HRD) has become increasingly important in recent years. This is especially true when domestic human resource management takes on international dimensions as it deals more with multicultural workforce. International HRD, much of it embodied in cross-cultural training, has been proposed by many scholars as a means of facilitating more effective interaction among managers, employees and customers from different national-cultural backgrounds. Despite the need for cross-cultural skills and the shortage of managers who possess these skills, most human resource decision-makers do nothing in terms of cross-cultural training for their employees. Studies …
A Catalyst For Culture: Early Child Development And Education In Japan, Kate Swenson
A Catalyst For Culture: Early Child Development And Education In Japan, Kate Swenson
Senior Scholar Papers
A popular Western perception of Japan is that it is an eminently homogeneous and conformist society. However, both conformity and homogeneity, recognized even by the Japanese themselves, coexist with the concept of individuality, which is valued in a manner unique to its culture. In order to come to a deeper understanding of that dynamic, it is important to comprehend the specifics of child rearing and education within Japanese society. Based in part on the author's observational fieldwork conducted while in Japan in 1994, the thesis explicates the manner in which various core relationships exhibit the socialization of an individual that …
Modernizing Small Manufacturers In Japan: The Role Of Local Public Technology Centers, Philip Shapira
Modernizing Small Manufacturers In Japan: The Role Of Local Public Technology Centers, Philip Shapira
Philip Shapira
Japan Looks At An Uncertain China: The Role Of Japan's Aid To China, Yixin Yang
Japan Looks At An Uncertain China: The Role Of Japan's Aid To China, Yixin Yang
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
This thesis discusses the role the Japanese aid has played in accommodating the structural change of Sino-Japanese economic relations and in dealing with the economic and political crisis that has jeopardized their bilateral relations and Japan's own national interest. Japan's early resumption of economic aid to China after Tiananmen reflects how aid philosophy differs from that of most of the other Western aid donors. The conclusions are that Japan's large loan to China has played a vital role in maintaining and strengthening Sino-Japanese economic relations, that the aid has made the interdependent relations between the two countries an asymmetric one, …
Freedom Of Expression: The Continuing Revolution In Japan's Legal Culture, Lawrence W. Beer
Freedom Of Expression: The Continuing Revolution In Japan's Legal Culture, Lawrence W. Beer
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
No abstract provided.
An Economic Analysis Of Fertility, Market Participation And Marriage Behaviour In Recent Japan, David K. C. Lee, Chin Lee Gan
An Economic Analysis Of Fertility, Market Participation And Marriage Behaviour In Recent Japan, David K. C. Lee, Chin Lee Gan
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
This is the 1st attempt in modelling fertility, labor force participation and marriage rate using Japanese data. The authors use Butz and Ward's model and extend it to a simultaneous equation system as in the case of Winegarden. Although the estimates obtained by Full Information Maximum Likelihood and Three Stage Least Squares of the model are statistically significant, some of the signs of the estimates are not consistent to a priori predictions. The crux of the model is that an increase in the wages of men has an unambiguous positive effect on fertility, whereas an increase in wages of women …
Curtain Of Silence Japanese In Soviet Custody, 1945-1956, William F. Nimmo
Curtain Of Silence Japanese In Soviet Custody, 1945-1956, William F. Nimmo
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
The Soviet Union attacked- and defeated Japanese forces in Northeast Asia in the final days of the Second World War, and 2,100,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians suddenly fell into the hands of the Red Army. This thesis examines the experiences of Japanese in Soviet custody, efforts to obtain their release, and their eventual return to Japan. Repatriation of civilians from Soviet-controlled areas was slow, and military personnel were taken to the USSR for use as forced labor for several years. The Soviets conducted an intensive Marxist-Leninist indoctrination program for prisoners of war, and a professed acceptance of communism was a …
The Gift Of The Gods: The Impact Of The Korean War On Japan, John P. Bowen
The Gift Of The Gods: The Impact Of The Korean War On Japan, John P. Bowen
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
The Korean War was a benchmark in the modern history of Japan. It became a catalyst for political action, and the fountainhead of the "economic miracle" that raised Japan once again to a prominent position among nations. The Korean War helped solve many political problems, including the tricky question of a peace treaty. It confirmed Japan's commitment to a no-war constitution. It also permitted the Japanese government to relax the restrictions imposed by occupation authorities. The war created a fortuitous economic stimulus that permitted Japan to emerge from the recessionary period that followed World War II and to establish the …
A New Direction In Japanese Defense Policy: Views From The Liberal Democratic Party Diet Members, Steven Kent Vogel
A New Direction In Japanese Defense Policy: Views From The Liberal Democratic Party Diet Members, Steven Kent Vogel
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Revolution In Japanese Law, Society And Politics, Lawrence W. Beer
Constitutional Revolution In Japanese Law, Society And Politics, Lawrence W. Beer
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
No abstract provided.
Disarmament And Civilian Control In Japan: A Constitutional Dilemma, Theodore Mcnelly
Disarmament And Civilian Control In Japan: A Constitutional Dilemma, Theodore Mcnelly
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Selected Books On Contemporary Asian Studies 1979-1980, John F. Copper
Review Of Selected Books On Contemporary Asian Studies 1979-1980, John F. Copper
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
No abstract provided.
U.S. Status Of Force Agreements With Asian Countries: Selected Studies, Charles L. Cochran, Hungdah Chiu
U.S. Status Of Force Agreements With Asian Countries: Selected Studies, Charles L. Cochran, Hungdah Chiu
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
No abstract provided.
A Guide To The Study Of Japanese Law, Lawrence W. Beer, Hidenori Tomatsu
A Guide To The Study Of Japanese Law, Lawrence W. Beer, Hidenori Tomatsu
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
No abstract provided.
The Sino-Japanese Fisheries Agreements Of 1975: A Comparison With Other North-Pacific Fisheries Agreements, Song Yook Hong
The Sino-Japanese Fisheries Agreements Of 1975: A Comparison With Other North-Pacific Fisheries Agreements, Song Yook Hong
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
No abstract provided.
Japan's Economic Success Following Her World War Ii Defeat, Karen E. Davidock
Japan's Economic Success Following Her World War Ii Defeat, Karen E. Davidock
Business and Economics Honors Papers
This 78 page senior thesis examines the rate of Japan's economic growth since World War II.
The Russian Empire And The Soviet Union In The Far East, Victor A. Yakhontoff
The Russian Empire And The Soviet Union In The Far East, Victor A. Yakhontoff
PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements
No abstract provided.