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In recent years, Japan and Germany have been facing very similar
challenges, namely aging populations, changing employment
structures, and globalization. Both countries are in a number of
respects more socially and politically regulated and in this sense
more liberal than the Anglo-American economies. This book is an
edited collection of papers exploring the demographic challenges
for human resource management and labour market policies in Germany
and Japan. The volume will concentrate on the type of problems
aging poses for human resource management practices and labour
market policies, and how public and company policies in both
countries deal with these challenges.
This book addresses researchers, practitioners, and policy makers
interested in understanding the financial implications of
mega-disaster risks as well as in seeking possible solutions with
regard to governance, the allocation of financial risk, and
resilience. The first part of this book takes the example of Japan
and studies the impact of mega earthquakes on government finance,
debt positions of private household and businesses, capital
markets, and investor behavior by way of economic modeling as well
as case studies from recent major disasters. In Japan, the
probability of a mega earthquake hitting dense agglomerations is
very high. Like other large-scale natural disasters, such events
carry systemic risks, i.e., they can trigger disruptions
endangering the stability of the social, economic, and political
order. The second part looks at the experience of the Japanese
government as a provider of disaster-risk finance and an active
partner in international collaboration. It concludes with an
analysis of the general characteristics of systemic risk and
approaches to improve resilience.
This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social,
economic, and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. Using
the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as
a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offer hidden insights
and new perspectives on the Games. These include city planning,
cultural politics, financial issues, language use, security,
education, volunteerism, and construction work. The chapters then
go on to explore the many stakeholders, institutions, citizens,
interest groups, and protest groups involved, and feature the
struggle over Tokyo's extreme summer heat, food standards, the
implementation of diversity around disabilities, sexual minorities,
and technological innovations. Giving short glimpses into the new
Olympic sports, this book also analyses the role of these sports in
Japanese society. Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics will
be of huge interest to anyone attending the Olympic Games in Tokyo
2020. It will also be useful to students and scholars of the
Olympics and the sociology of sport, as well as Japanese culture
and society.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU-Japan relations
from 1970 to the present. It charts developments over the period,
analyses key specific areas of importance to the relationship, and
concludes by assessing how the relationship is likely to develop
going forward. Throughout, the book discusses the factors on both
sides which motivate the relationship, including Japan's concern to
secure markets for its advanced industrial products, and the
factors motivating current negotiations for a deeper and more
comprehensive economic and cooperative partnership.
David Ricardo's law of comparative advantage and his finding that
free trade increases the wealth of all participating nations is one
of the very few economic laws which is accepted by almost all
economists. But economic reason and economic policy do not always
follow the same path. This especially applies to trade policies. A
substantial and growing part of trade between Japan, Europe and the
US does not follow the principles of free trade, but is more
accurately managed trade. The management of international trade,
international trade negotiations, and the political dynamics of
trade conflicts create a complex reality which follows its own laws
without regard to economic policy prescriptions. This
political-economic reality was the subject of the conference 'The
Political Economy of Trade Conflicts' organizedjoindy by the German
Institute for Japanese Studies and the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
together with the Institute of Modern Political Science and
Economics of Waseda University in December 1993. We present the
results of the conference in this reader. Three issues were of
special importance: the US-Japanese conflict over the reduction of
trade imbalances via quantitative import targets; the
liberalization of trade in agricultural products, especially the
opening of the Japanese rice market; and the trade tensions between
the European Union, the US and Japan in high technology industries.
The conference took place immediately before the conclusion of the
Uruguay Round, and yet its subject continues to be of high
political importance. In early 1994, the US-Japan conflict around
quantitative import targets became more tense.
Japan and Germany have faced very similar challenges, namely ageing
populations, changing employment structures, and globalization.
This book explores the demographic challenges for human resource
management and labour market policies in Germany and Japan and how
public and company policies in both countries deal with these
challenges.
This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social,
economic, and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. Using
the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as
a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offer hidden insights
and new perspectives on the Games. These include city planning,
cultural politics, financial issues, language use, security,
education, volunteerism, and construction work. The chapters then
go on to explore the many stakeholders, institutions, citizens,
interest groups, and protest groups involved, and feature the
struggle over Tokyo's extreme summer heat, food standards, the
implementation of diversity around disabilities, sexual minorities,
and technological innovations. Giving short glimpses into the new
Olympic sports, this book also analyses the role of these sports in
Japanese society. Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics will
be of huge interest to anyone attending the Olympic Games in Tokyo
2020. It will also be useful to students and scholars of the
Olympics and the sociology of sport, as well as Japanese culture
and society.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and
unlimited access. The increasing capacity of digital networks and
computing power, together with the resulting connectivity and
availability of "big data", are impacting financial systems
worldwide with rapidly advancing deep-learning algorithms and
distributed ledger technologies. They transform the structure and
performance of financial markets, the service proposition of
financial products, the organization of payment systems, the
business models of banks, insurance companies and other financial
service providers, as well as the design of money supply regimes
and central banking. This book, The Future of Financial Systems in
the Digital Age: Perspectives from Europe and Japan, brings
together leading scholars, policymakers, and regulators from Japan
and Europe, all with a profound and long professional background in
the field of finance, to analyze the digital transformation of the
financial system. The authors analyze the impact of digitalization
on the financial system from different perspectives such as
transaction costs and with regard to specific topics like the
potential of digital and blockchain-based currency systems, the
role of algorithmic trading, obstacles in the use of cashless
payments, the challenges of regulatory oversight, and the
transformation of banking business models. The collection of
chapters offers insights from Japanese and European discourses,
approaches, and experiences on a topic otherwise dominated by
studies about developments in the USA and China.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU-Japan relations
from 1970 to the present. It charts developments over the period,
analyses key specific areas of importance to the relationship, and
concludes by assessing how the relationship is likely to develop
going forward. Throughout, the book discusses the factors on both
sides which motivate the relationship, including Japan's concern to
secure markets for its advanced industrial products, and the
factors motivating current negotiations for a deeper and more
comprehensive economic and cooperative partnership.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and
unlimited access. The increasing capacity of digital networks and
computing power, together with the resulting connectivity and
availability of "big data", are impacting financial systems
worldwide with rapidly advancing deep-learning algorithms and
distributed ledger technologies. They transform the structure and
performance of financial markets, the service proposition of
financial products, the organization of payment systems, the
business models of banks, insurance companies and other financial
service providers, as well as the design of money supply regimes
and central banking. This book, The Future of Financial Systems in
the Digital Age: Perspectives from Europe and Japan, brings
together leading scholars, policymakers, and regulators from Japan
and Europe, all with a profound and long professional background in
the field of finance, to analyze the digital transformation of the
financial system. The authors analyze the impact of digitalization
on the financial system from different perspectives such as
transaction costs and with regard to specific topics like the
potential of digital and blockchain-based currency systems, the
role of algorithmic trading, obstacles in the use of cashless
payments, the challenges of regulatory oversight, and the
transformation of banking business models. The collection of
chapters offers insights from Japanese and European discourses,
approaches, and experiences on a topic otherwise dominated by
studies about developments in the USA and China.
Die Beitrage in diesem Open-Access-Sammelband beschreiben und
analysieren aus multidisziplinarer Sicht die Herausforderungen und
Bewaltigungsstrategien von Alterung und Pflege in japanischen und
deutschen Gemeinden. Thematisiert werden rechtliche
Rahmenbedingungen, zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement,
Pflegekraftemangel, Technologiekonzepte fur die Pflege und
schliesslich auch der Einfluss der Covid-19 Pandemie auf die
Situation alterer und pflegebedurftiger Burgerinnen und Burger. Die
Gegenuberstellung der Ansatze und Erfahrungen beider Lander
erweitert das Spektrum an Gestaltungsmoeglichkeiten und kann
Impulse fur eine Neuausrichtung bestehender Loesungsstrategien
geben.
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