Suchergebnisse

This book examines corporate reform in Japan by focusing on corporate governance and the employment system. Contrary to a prevailing assertion of radical change, it is revealed that actual change is gradual, and a new type of Japanese firm is generated by reform with gradual change. Throughout the book, Japanese firms are seen to be evolving through gradual institutional change. Chapter 1 discusses how Japanese corporate governance changed incrementally and cumulatively to rebuild management and restore corporate performance. Chapter 2 focuses on reform in work organization and discusses how performance-related pay was introduced in tandem with corporate governance reform. It is shown that the practice of long-term employment has been maintained despite the prolonged depression and mounting pressure to shift to shareholder-oriented corporate governance. Chapter 3 investigates how Japanese firms are diversified into four types, based on whether performance-related pay is introduced and whether long-term employment is maintained. The author demonstrates that major Japanese firms reconstruct their organization as hybrid structures based on a combination of long-term employment and performance-related pay. Chapter 4 investigates how performance-related pay actually operates. It is analyzed by distinguishing the three main objectives to be attained by performance pay: succeeding in individual performance, contributing to overall organization performance, and meeting the challenge of new tasks. Finally, Chapter 5 investigates how employees react to changes in corporate governance. Using survey data, the book shows that Japanese employees approve of increasing shareholder value, regarding it as corporate value. They not only approve the monitoring of management by shareholders, but also demand a part in the monitoring. Employees seek to be engaged in corporate governance--a true challenge for a Japanese corporation.

Introduction: The Ethics of Commemoration -- pt. 1. Commemoration -- Toward a Community of Memory -- Dialogue with the Dead : The Yasukuni Shinto Shrine and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park -- pt. 2. Religious Interpretations -- Beyond Good and Evil : Koji Shigenobu and the True Pure Land Understanding of the Atomic Bombing -- Sacrificial Lambs : Nagai Takashi and the Roman Catholic Interpretation of the Bombing -- pt. 3. Responsibility -- Women in Atomic Bomb Narratives : Hagiography, Alterity, and Non-Nomological Ethics -- Postscript: After Too Many Mushroom Clouds -- Afterword

This is the story of the Japanese who immigrated to Hawaii around the turn of the present century, worked as forced laborers on the sugar plantations, and afterwards remained in Hawaii to work as free men and to raise families. It is the story also of their children, born and raised in Hawaii, and who, during World War II, won fame and glory for themselves and their country on the bloody battlefields of Italy and southern Europe. But more than all of this, it is the story of the fate of the original immigrants during World War II. Rounded up by a panic-stricken American Government after the Ja

The issue of 'comfort women', who were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, has been a topic of global concern for decades. The relevant research conducted until now has revealed the extent to which these women were deprived of their freedom
and control over their sexual autonomy. However, justice and reparations for these women have been slow in coming due to the complexity of the legal and political problems and the limited understanding of the gendered nature of these crimes. Meanwhile, in recognition of the importance of addressing
gender-based crimes as part of efforts to combat impunity for gross human rights violations, the concept of gender persecution has evolved in international jurisprudence. Therefore, this article will explore to what extent the development of international law regulating gender persecution
can contribute to promoting the right to justice and reparation for 'comfort women'. To this end, I will investigate the historical context of the treatment of 'comfort women' and the evolving principles of international law on gender persecution, and identify how the legal framework can be
applied to this matter. I argue that the systematic sexual slavery of the 'comfort women' constitutes gender persecution in international law which will need greater attention by Japan and international community. I also contend that addressing the issue of 'comfort women' in terms of gender
persecution provides further insight on redress for these women by recognising victims as rights holders and identifying who victims are.