Suchergebnisse

From Coordinated to Disorganized Capitalism in Japan -- Organized Labor and Social Conflict in Japan -- From Precarity to Contestation -- Precarious Labor Power and Japan's Neoliberalizing Firms -- Precarious Labor and the Contestation of Policymaking in Japan -- Japan's Absent Mode of Regulation : Impeded Neoliberalisation.

Knowledge production on Hiroshima and Nagasaki : the politics of representation and a critique of canonization -- Postcolonial Hiroshima mon amour : Franco-Japanese collaboration in the American shadow -- Validating and invalidating the national sentiment : Kamei Fumio and the early days of Japanese cinema on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- "You saw nothing in Hiroshima" : performing atomic bomb victimhood and the visibility of the hibakusha -- Entangled discourses : John Hersey and Nagai Takashi

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Research Questions -- 1.2 Firm Researched -- 1.3 Products, Production Volume Ratios, and Production Lines -- 1.4 Research Debates -- 2 The Mother Plant in Japan and Its Transplant in the United States -- 2.1 Research Questions -- 2.2 Research Method -- 2.3 Overview of Plants Researched -- 2.4 Productivity Differences -- 2.5 The Japanese Mother Plant -- 2.5.1 The Reinforcement of Production Workers' Skills, Supervisors' Control, and Manufacturing Engineers' Roles -- 2.6 The U.S. Transplant -- 2.6.1 The Introduction of Production Expert Positions and the Expansion of Manufacturing Engineers' Roles -- 2.6.2 The Difficulty in Enhancing Employees' Skills and Modifying Their Roles -- 2.7 Summary -- 3 The Transplants in Thailand and China -- 3.1 Research Questions -- 3.2 Research Method -- 3.3 Overview of Plants Researched -- 3.4 Productivity Differences -- 3.5 The Thai Transplant -- 3.5.1 New Supporting Roles of Thai Manufacturing Engineers in Other ASEAN Transplants -- 3.5.2 Employees' Skills and Roles on Traditional Assembly Lines -- 3.6 The Chinese Transplant -- 3.6.1 Productivity Goals of the Thai Transplant -- 3.7 Summary -- 4 Conclusion -- 4.1 Limited Convergence Among the Four Plants -- 4.1.1 Productivity, Production Workers' Skills, and Assistant First-Line Supervisors' Control -- 4.1.2 Manufacturing Engineers' Roles -- 4.2 Causes of Differences Among the Four Plants -- 4.3 Implications for Future Research -- References.

"The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was adopted on 15 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan. The Supplementary Protocol provides international rules and procedures in the field of liability and redress relating to living modified organisms (LMOs) in response to damage caused by those LMOs to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, taking into account risks to human health. The adoption came at a time when doubts had been raised about the efficacy of multilateral environmental diplomacy after the collapse of the climate change negotiations in 2009 at Copenhagen, and indeed, the Supplementary Protocol was the first universal environmental treaty adopted since the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001. This book examines in depth the prelude to, the negotiation over, and the legal significance of the core provisions of the Supplementary Protocol focusing particularly on its incorporation of an administrative approach to liability for biodiversity damage, rather than a fully-fledged civil liability regime. Contributors to the volume include Co-Chairs of the negotiating group and the negotiators and advisors from some of the key negotiating Parties and the chapters will thus provide valuable insights into the environmental treaty-making process. Topics covered include: legal structure of the Supplementary Protocol; the role of science and scientists in implementation process; the interaction of elements of administrative approach to liability with domestic legal systems and WTO law; and comparisons with the EU Environmental Liability Directive. The book demonstrates the significant changes in the political configuration of environmental treaty negotiations which have come about in the twenty-first century and argues that the liability approach of the Supplementary Protocol illustrates the historical development of States' obligations under international law to address transboundary harm caused by activities within their jurisdictions or under their control"--

This book, in contrast with previous research and popular discussions that focus on the productivity of workers, identifies the critical influence of supervisors and engineers as key drivers of productivity differentials. To do so, it analyzes productivity at a Japanese car component plant and its three offshoot plants located in the United States, Thailand, and China and how productivity evolved at these plants from the mid-1990s to the early 2010s. The author's participatory observation approach reveals that productivity and work practices converged to a limited degree over the years at all four plants. Particularly influential are the persistent differences at these plants in the extent to which workers learn how to combine and integrate their production skills with troubleshooting skills. Supervisors play a key role in developing this integration in Japan, while worker skills remain separated in the other countries. Integrated skill development is promoted in Japan through the trusting relationships that first-line supervisors enjoy with their workforce. In the plants abroad, in contrast, the persistence of workers' control over their individual skill development and careers impedes the development of integrated skills. Manufacturing engineers at the Japanese mother plant also play key linking roles, thereby enhancing communications and problem-solving on the shop floor, whereas manufacturing engineers at the US, Thai, and Chinese plants play more limited and compartmentalized roles. As a result, productivity remains high in Japan and lags in the other plants. Surprisingly, Japanese managers remain reluctant to introduce these more productive work practices in the offshoot plants.

These two volumes analyze Japan from the Knowledge Economy perspective, covering a wide range of sectoral issues in development including the macro economic framework, education and skills training, the national innovation system, science and technology, information and communication technology, and infrastructure.While Volume 1 explores the four pillare of the "Knowledge for Development" framework, the second volume presents up-to-date case studies of outstanding Japanese private companies that each characterize different aspects of the Knowledge Economy. By combining economics and

These two volumes analyze Japan from the Knowledge Economy perspective, covering a wide range of sectoral issues in development including the macro economic framework, education and skills training, the national innovation system, science and technology, information and communication technology, and infrastructure.While Volume 1 explores the four pillare of the "Knowledge for Development" framework, the second volume presents up-to-date case studies of outstanding Japanese private companies that each characterize different aspects of the Knowledge Economy. By combining economics and