The magazine of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan
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October 2011
Book Reviews
This month: Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, and Japan
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September 2011
Drinking Japan: A Guide to Japan’s Best Drinks and Drinking Establishments
This unusual book is a look at life in Tokyo from the perspective of commuting to and from the city on the Odakyu line. The author, a British academic who taught English at Nihon University from 1997 to 2011, rode the line to work from his station at Mukougaoka Yuuen.
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September 2011
Book Reviews
This month: Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line, English in Japan in the Era of Globalization, and Japan as a ‘Normal Country’?—A Nation in Search of Its Place in the World
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August 2011
Book Reviews
This collection of essays by 80 contributors—with a wide range of backgrounds, including CEOs, academics, authors and even a football manager— offers thoughts and potential solutions for the economic, social and demographic challenges that Japan faces. The project was underway before 11 March, but some chapters were either added or rewritten in the wake of the triple disaster, which has since become a focal point for reforming Japan.
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July 2011
Book Reviews
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June 2011
Book Reviews
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February 2011
Have Japanese Firms Changed?
A look at how Japanese firms have adapted to the changes that have occurred since the bursting of the economic bubble.
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February 2011
What's What in Japanese Restaurants
This 180-page guide to eating out in Japan provides a wealth of information for those who want to expand their culinary horizons and know what they’re ordering and eating.
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February 2011
Playing to Wiin: Nintendo and the Video Game ...
Tracing the history of media-shy Nintendo, from its origins as a 19th century family business specialising in playing cards to a world-beater.
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March 2011
Japan-Bashing: Anti-Japanism since the 1980s
From the “yellow peril” to the fear—now seemingly ridiculous—of a Japan-dominated world, the book looks at the portrayal of anti-Japanese sentiment in Western media, political circles, popular culture and public opinion.
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March 2011
Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability ...
Telling the story of the “lost generation” who have experienced the breakdown of secure employment patterns since the 1990s, this book looks at how the system that once channelled young people smoothly from school to work has come apart in the subsequent decades.
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March 2011
Japanese Consumer Dynamics
The 11 chapters chart the course of the Japanese consumer market from the high growth post-war decades through to the most recent financial crisis, analysing the groups and trends that have emerged, through the eyes of eight contributing authors.
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March 2011
People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
“Lucie Blackman died … before I ever knew that such a person existed. In fact, it was only because she was dead or missing … that I took an interest in her at all”, admits Richard Lloyd Parry at the beginning of his book.
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December 2010 / January 2011
International Fragmentation of Production: The Impact of Outsourcing on the Japanese Economy
This analysis of the process of outsourcing manufacturing is an unapologetically academic work that grew out of the author’s PhD thesis.
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December 2010 / January 2011
Challenges of Human Resource Management in Japan
The 32nd release in the Routledge Contemporary Japan Series, the book is split into two halves, an “international perspective” written by seven foreign writers, and the domestic view from eight Japanese academics.
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December 2010 / January 2011
Zen and Japanese Culture
Regarded as one of the most important works of the last century on the subject, Suzuki’s writing — all the more impressive for having been originally written in English — is easy to read and engaging.
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December 2010 / January 2011
Lyndall Urwick: Management Pioneer
Urwick probably remains the single most important figure in the history and development of management in Britain, and this 225-page biography sets out to show how the man and his ideas were formed, rather than examine his contribution to the field.
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December 2010 / January 2011
The Grand Design
This is a book that has the ability to make you feel either quite smart or a bit stupid, and sometimes both within a relatively short space of time.
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April / May 2010
Extract Value from Consultants How to hire, control and fire them
Outsourcing is on everyone’s lips these days, as firms look to cut costs and add value without compromising quality...
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February / March 2010
The New Rules of Marketing & PR
This second edition, which has been completely revised and updated, explains to the technical novice how the web has changed the rules of marketing and PR and how to leverage the potential of the individual media...
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December 2009 / January 2010
Conflict and Change
The biggest surprise about Conflict and Change was learning that, according to the publisher, it is the first book on the challenges associated with foreign takeovers of Japanese firms. At a BCCJ luncheon at the Hilton Tokyo hotel on November 11...
