Japan: Why It Works, Why It Doesn't : Economics in Everyday Life

, by Mak, James; Abe, Shigeyuki; Igawa, Kazuhiro; Shyam Sunder

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ISBN: 9780824819675 | 0824819675
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/1/1997

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Preface

(4)

Acknowledgments

xiii

Living

(70)

1. Do the Japanese Live Better Than Americans?

(8)

Charles Yuji Horioka

2. Why Avoid the Altar?

(10)

Andrew Mason

Naohiro Ogawa

3. Why Go to School after School?

(6)

Shigeyuki Abe

Kazuhiro Igawa

4. Why So Many Gifts?

(6)

Robert Parry

5. Why Is Pachinko So Popular?

(6)

Shigeyuki Abe

James Mak

6. Why Are the Japanese Obsessed with Luxury Brand-Name Goods?

(6)

Kazuo Nishiyama

7. Why Are There So Many Small Shops in Japan?

(6)

James Mak

Shyam Sunder

8. How Do the Japanese and Americans Spend Their Money?

(8)

James Mak

9. How Can the Japanese Manage without Personal Checking Accounts?

(8)

Toshiki Jinushi

James Mak

10. What Are Most Japanese Doing on Tax Day?

(6)

Robert McCleery

Work

(50)

11. Why Do Students Take It Easy at the University?

(10)

Shigeyuki Abe

Shoji Nishijima

Shyam Sunder

Karen Lupardus

12. Why Do Japanese Companies Hire Only Spring Graduates?

(8)

Teruyuki Higa

13. Why Don't Workers Claim All Their Overtime?

(8)

Teruyuki Higa

Karen Lupardus

14. How Do Workers Get Paid?

(8)

Naoki Mitani

15. Do the Japanese Work till They Drop?

107

(8)

Yoshitaka Fukui

16. Why Do the Japanese Save So Much?

115

(8)

Charles Yuji Horioka

System

123

(82)

17. Why Is Japan a Paradise of Vending Machines?

123

(8)

Robert Parry

18. Why Do Doctors Prescribe So Many Pills?

131

(6)

Akihiko Kawaura

Summer LaCroix

19. Why Do Bank Automatic Teller Machines Shut Down at 7 P.M.?

137

(12)

Shyam Sunder

20. Why Is Rice So Expensive in Japan?

149

(8)

Susumu Hondai

21. How Can the Japanese Spend So Little on Health Care?

157

(10)

Matthew Loke

James Mak

22. How Does Japan's Largest Bank Work?

167

(6)

Toshiki Jinushi

23. Why Do So Many Japanese Contribute to Public TV?

173

(6)

Kazuhiro Igawa

James Mak

24. Why Are So Few People on Welfare in Japan?

179

(6)

Yoko Kimura

25. What Are Keiretsu and Why Do Some U.S. Companies Dislike Them?

185

(10)

Gary Kikuchi

26. Is Japan an Egalitarian Society?

195

(10)

Harry Oshima

Glossary of Japanese Terms

205

(4)

Sources for Statistical Data on Japan

209

(2)

About the Contributors

211

(4)

Index

215

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