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Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance

From Trading Nation to EcoNation

By: Yasuo Takao

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Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance

From Trading Nation to EcoNation

By: Yasuo Takao

Environmental issues stretch across scales of geographic space and require action at multiple levels of jurisdiction, including the individual level, community level, national level, and global level. Much of the scholarly work surrounding new approaches to environmental governance tends to overlook the role of sub-national governments, but this study examines the potential of sub-national participation to make policy choices which are congruent with global strategies and national mandates. This book investigates the emerging actors and new channels of Japan’s environmental governance which has been taking shape within an increasingly globalized international system. By analysing this important new phenomenon, it sheds light on the changing nature of Japan’s environmental policy and politics, and shows how the links between global strategies, national mandates and local action serve as an influential factor in Japan’s changing structures of environmental governance. Further, it demonstrates that decision-making competencies are shared between actors operating at different levels and in new spheres of authority, resulting from collaboration between state and non-state actors. It highlights a number of the problems, challenges, and critiques of the actors in environmental governance, as well as raising new empirical and theoretical puzzles for the future study of governance over environmental and global issues. Finally, it concludes that changes in the tiers and new spheres of authority are leading the nation towards an environmentally stable future positioned within socio-economic and political constraints. Demonstrating that bridging policy gaps between local action, national policy and global strategies is potentially a way of reinventing environmental policy, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Environmental Studies, Environmental Politics and Japanese Politics.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317517784

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9781317517788

National Integration and Local Power in Japan

By: Yasuo Takao

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National Integration and Local Power in Japan

By: Yasuo Takao

First published in 1999, this book offers a new study of local government in Japan. There is an enormous amount of information about Japanese local government that has not yet appeared in English. With the author’s local familiarity, elected local officials and local residents have been extraordinarily open and forthcoming. This allows a rethinking of the topic by mobilising a multitude of solid factual material. Japan has dealt with the dramatically increased public sector, but has done so in a setting of institutional centralisation. How has central authority sought to find ways of managing the continuous expansion of state activities? How have local authorities responded to central government’s initiative in integrating state administration? The answers the book gives to these questions present an alternative understanding of Japanese local government.

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441

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Routledge

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0429820062

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9780429820069

A Buried Past

An Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project Collection

By: Yuji Ichioka,Yasuo Sakata,Nobuya Tsuchida,Eri Yasuhara

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A Buried Past

An Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project Collection

By: Yuji Ichioka,Yasuo Sakata,Nobuya Tsuchida,Eri Yasuhara

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

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234

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Univ of California Press

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0520313534

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9780520313538

Management of Software Engineering Innovation in Japan

By: Yasuo Kadono

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Management of Software Engineering Innovation in Japan

By: Yasuo Kadono

This book assesses the achievements of the software engineering discipline as represented by IT vendors in Japan in order to deepen understanding of the mechanisms of how software engineering capabilities relate to IT vendors’ business performance and business environment from the perspective of innovation and engineering management. Based on the concepts of service science and science for society, the volume suggests how to improve the sophistication of services between the demand side, i.e., IT user companies, and the supply side, i.e., IT vendors, simultaneously. The author and his colleagues developed a structural model including innovational paths, such as service innovation, product innovation and process innovation, and a measurement model including the seven software engineering capabilities: deliverables, project management, quality assurance, process improvement, research and development, human resource development and customer contact. Then they designed research on software engineering excellence and administered it with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Information-Technology Promotion Agency. Through statistical analyses of the results, they found that human resource development and R&D are significant fundamental conditions to improve the quality of the deliverables and that IT firms with high levels of deliverables, derived from high levels of human resource development, quality assurance, project management and process improvement, tend to sustain high profitability. In addition, they developed a measurement model based on Porter’s five forces and Barney’s resource-based view. A regression tree analysis suggested that manufacturer spin-off vendors tend to expand business with well-resourced R&D, whereas user spin-off vendors tend to depend heavily on parent company demand.

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177

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Springer

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4431556125

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9784431556121

Reinventing Japan

From Merchant Nation to Civic Nation

By: Yasuo Takao

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Reinventing Japan

From Merchant Nation to Civic Nation

By: Yasuo Takao

The merchant nation of Japan's fall from grace in recent years has lead to a major realignment of state - society power relations with welcomed democratizing effects. This book is about the emerging civic face of twenty-first century Japan. It illustrates how new and emerging relationships between civil society groups and local government are becoming key elements of Japan's changing structures of governance. It closely examines such issue areas as e-democracy, decentralization, foreign workers, NGOs and the role of women, which have converged to open the way for reinventing Japan. It demonstrates how the expansion of associational life in Japan is surely heading for a more autonomous civil society.

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272

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Palgrave Macmillan

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140398414X

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9781403984142

Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance

From Trading Nation to EcoNation

By: Yasuo Takao

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From Trading Nation to EcoNation

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Taylor & Francis

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National Integration and Local Power in Japan

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Book's by Yasuo Takao

Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance

Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance

National Integration and Local Power in Japan

National Integration and Local Power in Japan

A Buried Past

A Buried Past

Management of Software Engineering Innovation in Japan

Management of Software Engineering Innovation in Japan

Reinventing Japan

Reinventing Japan

Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance

Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance

National Integration and Local Power in Japan

National Integration and Local Power in Japan

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