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Contesting precarity in Japan : the rise of nonregular workers and the new policy dissensus
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ISBN: 1501749943 1501749951 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ithaca : ILR Press,

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This volume details the new forms of workers' protest and opposition that have developed as Japan's economy has transformed over the past three decades and highlights their impact upon the country's policymaking process.


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The Social Sciences in Modern Japan : The Marxian and Modernist Traditions
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ISBN: 9786612360138 1282360132 0520941330 1435611497 9780520941335 9781435611498 1433708884 9781433708886 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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This incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of "development" or "rationalization" have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence. Andrew E. Barshay argues that Japan, together with Germany and pre-revolutionary Russia, represented forms of developmental alienation from the Atlantic Rim symptomatic of late-emerging empires. Neither members nor colonies of the Atlantic Rim, these were independent national societies whose cultural self-image was nevertheless marked by a sense of difference. Barshay presents a historical overview of major Japanese trends and treats two of the most powerful streams of Japanese social science, one associated with Marxism, the other with Modernism (kindaishugi), whose most representative figure is the late Maruyama Masao. Demonstrating that a sense of developmental alienation shaped the thinking of social scientists in both streams, the author argues that they provided Japanese social science with moments of shared self-understanding.


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Arbitraging Japan
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ISBN: 1283804298 0520953959 0520273486 0520273478 9780520953956 9780520273474 9780520273481 9781283804295 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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For many financial market professionals worldwide, the era of high finance is over. The times in which bankers and financiers were the primary movers and shakers of both economy and society have come to an abrupt halt. What has this shift meant for the future of capitalism? What has it meant for the future of the financial industry? What about the lives and careers of financial operators who were once driven by utopian visions of economic, social, and personal transformation? And what does it mean for critics of capitalism who have long predicted the end of financial institutions? Hirokazu Miyazaki answers these questions through a close examination of the careers and intellectual trajectories of a group of pioneering derivatives traders in Japan during the 1990's and 2000's.

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