Japans Wirtschaft im Umbruch: Schlaglichter aus dem Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien (The Japanese Economy in Transition : Highlights Presented by the German Institute for Japanese Studies)

This book presents an account of the intensive change that has characterized the Japanese economy in the second half of the 1990s. Eleven research associates and seven research fellows have commented on this change in thirty essays illustrated with photos and graphs. Most of these essays were originally published in the journal Japan Markt of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan and have been extensively revised and updated for this publication. The topics dealt with range from deregulation and research policy, environment technologies, welfare pension systems and transport logistics to the presentation of the Japanese management in movies and literature. This collection forms a kaleidoscope of trends in the Japanese economy on the eve of entering the twenty-first century, and presents the results of the DIJ’s ongoing research in a new attractive format for a wider readership.