Japan after the Economic Miracle Book

	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Searching for new directions: the Japanese challenges and responses	9
1	Japan's postwar Fordism: an historical perspective on the economic crisis in Japan	11
2	Restoring the legitimacy of Japanese business in the post-bubble era: can good economics make good ethics easier?	37
3	Changing behaviour of Japanese consumers	59
4	Back in the race: Japan and the Internet	71
5	New directions in Canada's Japanese-owned automobile plants	85
6	Producing and managing hazardous waste in Japan	105
7	Sustainability of farm settlements in Japan after the economic miracle: a case study of Onoji hamlet and Yamanashi prefecture	127
8	New directions in Japanese urban planning: a case study of Nagoya	145
9	The aging of Japanese society: human resource management in transition	169
10	Contemporary party politics in Japan: an old wine in a new bottle?	185
Pt. II	Searching for new directions: The Canadian challenges and responses	225
11	Breaking into the Japanese Market: Canadian companies and the challenge of doing business in Japan	227
12	Learning with a new media	251
13	History of Japanese language education at UBC, 1956-1998: challenges and future directions	265
14	Teaching Japanese to a multicultural student population	277
15	Beyond boundaries: Japanese migrant women in North America	303
	Index	321