Culture and Technology in Modern Japan

By - Inkster, Ian , Satofuka, Fumihiko

Floor - Floor 1

Published - I.B. Tauris ; In the U.S. and Canada distributed by St. Martin's Press, London, New York, 2000

ISBN 10 - 1860643256

ISBN 13 - 9781860643255

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Technology--Social aspects

Shelf No - 13

Call Number - 303.4830 INK

Physical Description - xii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes - Includes Index

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The rise of Japan as an economic superpower is a remarkable episode in the history of the modern world. This book seeks to explain this phenomenal success by looking at the issues of culture and technology, and making comparison with the experience of the USA, the UK, and Europe as a whole. The relationship between culture and technology lies at the heart of the undoubted market success of Japan, and the development of high technology and the much-lauded "cultural" attributes of Japan have contributed powerfully to national success. These vital issues are examined in detail and include, for example, the relationship between company "culture" and "structure", and the overriding impact of Japanese "national" culture. National cultures in Japan and the West are compared with the consequent effect on entrepreneurial and technological progress.

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