Japan in the age of globalization / edited by Carin Holroyd and Ken Coates.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pioneers of globalization : Tokugawa's cross-cultural communications / Jay Goulding -- Mind the gap : Japanese corporate web sites and the missing war years / Jeffrey W. Alexander -- "Kids these days ..." : globalization and the shifting discourse of childhood in Japan / Dawn Grimes-MacLellan -- Restructuring and returns in Japan 2000-2001 / Dick Beason ... [et al.] -- An overview of corporate governance reform in post-bubble Japan : institutional change and selective adaptation / Masao Nakamura -- Competing in the new global economy : exploring the roots of Japanese scientific and technological innnovation / Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd -- Soft power and the globalization of Japanese popular culture / William M. Tsutsui -- Wakon-Yosai and globalization / Norio Ota -- Caught in a "restless dream" : contemporary Japanese women writers and the era of globalization / Janice Brown -- Japan and the Cold War frontiers in East Asia in the era of globalism / Kimie Hara -- National mobilization and global engagement : understanding Japan's response to global climate change initiatives / Carin Holroyd -- Conclusion : Japan in the age of twenty-first-century globalization / Carin Holroyd and Ken Coates.

The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades. But so, it must be said, has Japan influenced a variety of critical global developments - globalization is not a one-way street, particularly for a nation as economically influential and technologically advanced as Japan. The chapters in this collection examine the impact of globalization on Japan and the impact of Japan on the forces of globalization from the various disciplinary perspectives of business, the economy, politics, technology, culture and society. They also explain the manner in which the nation has responded to the economic and cultural liberalization that has been such a profound force for change around the globe. This comprehensive collected works brings the latest research to bear on this important subject and provides evidence of the long history of global influences on Japan {u2013} and Japanese impacts on the rest of the world. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, Japanese Studies, and Asian Studies.