This is the first book to examine fully the issue of globalization in relation to Japan. It reveals the key dimensions of Japanese globalization today by analyzing both its inward and outward manifestations.

Glenn D Hook is Chair of Japanese Studies, and Director of the Graduate School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield; his many publications include co-editing The Internationalisation of Japan, Japanese Business Management and Militarization and Demilitarisation in Contemporary Japan.
Hasegawa Harukiyo is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, and Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield. He is the author of Japanese Business Management and The Steel Industry in Japan: A Comparison with Britain

Chapter 1 The global meaning of Japan: the state's persistently precarious position in the world order; PART I Globalization in politics and international relations; Chapter 1 The global meaning of Japan: the state's persistently precarious position in the world order; Chapter 2 Japan's role in the East Asian political economy: an emerging region?; Chapter 3 Japan in Europe: Asian and European perspectives; Chapter 4 Europe in Japan: a growing EU identity; PART II Globalization in economy and business; Chapter 5 Globalization and oriental capitalism: the global meaning of Japan; Chapter 6 Financial globalization and the unravelling of the Japanese model; Chapter 7 Americanization or Europeanization? The globalization of the Japanese economy; Chapter 8 Japan as a model of the past? Kaizen, ' lean production' and the German car industry in retrospect; Chapter 9 'Japanization' and 'globalization' as metaphors for capitalist rationalization; PART III Globalization in nation and society; Chapter 10 Japanese responses to globalization: nationalism and transnationalism; Chapter 11 Migration, globalization and the nation state, Japan; Chapter 12 Political integration of foreign communities in Japan: the right to vote issue;