Table Of ContentCan Japan Globalize?
Arne Holzhausen
Editor
Can Japan Globalize?
Studies on Japan's Changing Political
Economy and the Process of Globalization
in Honour of Sung-Jo Park
With 30 Figures
and 32 Tables
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Dr. Ame Ho1zhausen
Institute for East Asian Studies
Freie Universităt Berlin
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14195 Berlin
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Preface
On September 30th 2000, Dr. Dr. h. c. Sung-Jo Park, university professor for
economics, politics and Japanese studies at the Institute for East Asian studies at
the Freie UniversiUit Berlin celebrated his 65th birthday. At this occasion, friends
and colleagues from Europe, Asia and America joined in writing this book as an
expression of the great appreciation that his works, his inspiration and his
personality have won in many places around the world.
It is a great pleasure for me as the editor to wish my academic teacher and mentor
many more years of happiness, exciting projects and love with his family, friends
and colleagues to come in the name of all contributors.
This book is about Japan and about the process of globalization, bringing together
two of the topics Sung-Jo Park has published on widely. After the end of the cold
war and the burst of the stock market bubble, Japan entered years of lingering
economic crisis and half-hearted reform projects. While U.S. American and
increasingly European companies are shaping the new global economy, Japanese
firms, which have long been admired - or feared - for their high productivity and
ruthless market strategies, are trailing far behind. At the start of the 21st century,
hardly anyone is talking about the "Pacific Century" with Japan at its centre
anymore. The papers of this volume analyse the causes of the Japanese malaise
and discuss the new challenges brought forth by the process of globalization from
different viewpoints and different strands of social science. As the legacy of
nearly 130 years of catching up and learning from the West is certainly shaping
Japan's effort to adapt to the globalization process, arguments about the need of
deregulation and transparency or about establishing shareholder and consumer
sovereignty are often influenced by general beliefs whether further Westernization
is desirable or not. Today, Japan is thus not only discussing recipes to get itself
back on growth, but its position in the global political economy in general.
Many so-called "Festschriften" include a photograph of the honoured person, his
or her long list of publications and at least one chapter describing his or her
academic vita, achievements and merits at length. But as Sung-Jo Park is not just
one of many professors but an exceptional person - who rather dislikes this kind
of academic self-reference -, his Festschrift, too, is rather unusual in this aspect.
Instead of these laudatory parts the three appendices shed some light on Sung-Jo
Park's multifarious activities, discussing fields so diverse as the German re
unification, university reform and Japanese studies in Germany.
VI Preface
For their help in editing the numerous papers I would wish to thank Barbara
Fense, Sierk Horn and especially Benjamin Lunau. Finally, I would also like to
acknowledge the generous support for the publication of this book by Folker
Streib, the DaimlerChrysler AG and the Schering AG.
Berlin, December 2000 Arne Holzhausen
Contents
Introduction
1 Is Japan Changing? ................................................................................................... .3
Malcolm Trevor
Part One: The Internal Preparations
I The Economy: Towards the Market Principle?
2 The Government-Industry Relationship in Japan: What the History of the
Electric Power Industry Teaches Us ........................................................................... 21
Takeo Kikkawa
3 Buyer-Seller Interaction and Relationship Development in the Japanese
Business Market ......................................................................................................... .35
Sam Dzever
4 Restructuring Ii la Japonaise: Supplier Relationships in the Japanese Car
Industry in the 1990s .................................................................................................. .51
Arne Holzhausen
5 Japan's Financial Reform ....................................................................................... 67
KurtG6rger
6 Modes of Employment in Japan .............................................................................. 83
Michio Nitta
II The Firm: Towards Open Structures?
7 Recent Arguments on Corporate Governance in Japan .......................................... 99
Kazuo Shibagaki
8 Foreign Capital and the Recent M&A Environment in Japan ............................. 107
Shinobu Muramatsu
9 Human Resource Development of Professional Workers in Large
Manufacturers in Britain and Japan: A Comparative Study ................................... 121
KazuoKoike
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10 Organisational Learning is Dead! Long Live Organisational Learning! .......... 137
JohnB. Kidd
11 Bridging the Gap of Uncertainty: A Fragmentary Case Study of Toyota's
Prius .......................................................................................................................... 153
Enno Berndt & Andre Metzner
III The Society: Towards Pluralism?
12 Japan's General Elections of June 2000: Revolution or Ripple? ...................... 179
J.A.A. Stockwin
13 Samurai and Sarariiman: The Discourse on Masculinity in Modem Japan ..... 199
Anette Schad-Seifert
14 Technology and Gender in Japan ....................................................................... 213
lise Lenz
15 "Heartful Guidance": Fighting Juvenile Deviancy in a Japanese
Community ............................................................................................................... 229
Gesine Foljanty-Jost
Part Two: The External Preparations
IV Foreign Relations: Asian or Global Leadership?
16 The "New Asianism" .......................................................................................... 245
Peter Duus
17 Japan's Eurasian Diplomacy: Hard-Nosed Power Politics, Resource
Diplomacy, or Romanticism .................................................................................... 257
Reinhard Drifte
18 New Networks of Foreign Aid: Cross National Comparisons of
Multilateral Development Assistance ...................................................................... 275
Paul KevenhOrster
19 Japan's Image of Europe and Strategies Towards It. ......................................... 291
Andras Hernadi
Contents IX
V Global Markets: The New Paradigm
20 From Scarcity to Insatiability: Globalization, Lost Variety and the
Levelling of Cultural Differences ............................................................................ 307
Galen Amstutz
21 Cosmocorporations and Cosmoconsurners: A Note on the Identity
Management of German and Japanese Transnationals ........................................... 321
Sierk A. Horn
22 The Technological Revolution in World Markets - Strategies for Global
Company Competitiveness ...................................................................................... 335
Carsten Fussan
23 DaimlerChrysler's Strategy Towards Asia ........................................................ 347
Karin Funke
VI Japan and Globalization: Who Shapes Whom?
24 Mirroring Consensus ........................................................................................... 359
JoopA. Stam
25 Transformation of the German Production System "After Japan"
in the 1990s .............................................................................................................. 369
Ulrich Jurgens
26 On the Policy of Reserving Different Currencies after the Asian Crisis .......... 379
Yoshiaki Takahashi
27 A Current Picture ofIntemet and E-Commerce in Asia. ................................... 393
Kerstin Teicher
28 Strategy and Localisation in China. .................................................................... 405
Dieter Beschorner & Marc-Oliver Thurner
Epilogue
29 Is There a Japanese Economic Crisis? ............................................................... 421
Johan Galtung
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Contents
Appendices
30 Political-Cultural Aspects of the German Reunification Experience-
Possible Implications for Korea? ............................................................................. 429
Ulrich Albrecht
31 Applied Sciences and Global Technology Transfer - A Challenge for
Universities ............................................................................................................... 439
Gerhard Ackermann & Wolfgang Jahnke
32 Woriiber sprechen wir? Eine japanologische Uberlegung am Beispiel von
"Betrieb" und "Gewerkschaft" ................................................................................ 443
Wolfgang Seifert
The Authors .............................................................................................................. 461
