| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Japan--why it works, why it doesn't/ edited by James Mak ... [et al.]. |
| Reminder of title: |
economics in everyday life / |
| other author: |
Mak, James. |
| Published: |
Honolulu :University of Hawaii Press, : c1998., |
| Description: |
xiv, 219 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| Notes: |
"A Latitude 20 book." |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Do the Japanese live better than Americans? / Charles Yuji Horioka -- Why avoid the altar? / Andrew Mason and Naohiro Ogawa -- Why go to school after school? / Shigeyuki Abe and Kazuhiro Igawa -- Why so many gifts?/ Robert Parry -- Why is Pachinko so popular? / Shigeyuki Abe and James Mak -- Why are the Japanese obsessed with luxury brand-name goods? / Kazuo Nishiyama -- Why are there so many small shops in Japan?/ James Mak and Shyam Sunder -- How do the Japanese and Americans spend their money? / James Mak -- How can the Japanese manage without personal checking accounts? / Toshiki Jinushi and James Mak -- What are most Japanese doing on tax day?/ Robert McCleery -- Why do students take it easy at the university? / Shigeyuki Abe ... [et al.] -- Why do Japanese companies hire only spring graduates? / Teruyuki Higa -- Why don't workers claim all their overtime?/ Teruyuki Higa and Karen Lupardus -- How do workers get paid? / Naoki Mitani -- Do the Japanese work till they drop? / Yoshitaka Fukui -- Why do the Japanese save so much? / Charles Yuji Horioka -- Why is Japan a paradise of vending machines?/ Robert Parry -- Why do doctors prescribe so many pills? / Akihiko Kawaura and Sumner LaCroix -- Why do bank automatic teller machines shut down at 7 P.M.? / Shyam Sunder -- Why is rice so expensive in Japan?/ Susumu Hondai -- How can the Japanese spend so little on health care? / Matthew Loke and James Mak -- How does Japan's largest bank work? / Toshiki Jinushi -- Why do so many Japanese contribute to public TV?/ Kazuhiro Igawa and James Mak -- Why are so few people on welfare in Japan? Yoko Kimura -- What are the Keiretsu and why do some U.S. companies dislike them? / Gary Kikuchi -- Is Japan an egalitarian society? / Harry Oshima. |
| Subject: |
National characteristics, Japanese. - |
| Subject: |
Japan - Economic conditions - 1945- - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=39229An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585240590 (electronic bk.) |