MANAGEMENT IN ASIAN MARKETS

The course aims to get an understanding of the current Japanese economy, including the management of enterprises and the working conditions. For understanding it, this course focuses on the historical transformation of the international and global interactions after World War II. Through theoretically positioning Japanese economy into the international and global perspective, this course tries to understand the Japanese economy not unique one but one of the varieties of modern economic development. By regarding Japanese studies as global studies, this course will make clear why and how do we research Japan in the contemporary global age.

Knowledge and understanding:
- to know and understand the contemporary Japanese economy
- to know and understand theoretical tools within inter-disciplinary social theory
- to deepen the knowledge and understanding of modern globalization

Applying knowledge and understanding:
- to use the knowledge and tools you have learned in this course to find things that interest you
- to use the knowledge and tools you have learned in this course to analyze and interpret what interests you

Making judgments:
- to use independent reviews on cultural and social issues that are part of the program by using solid arguments
- to utilize various types of sources (statistic, academic, alternative) to examine cultural and social issues that are part of the program
- to exercise judgment within a comparative, trans-cultural and global perspective

Communication:
- to express and elaborate the contents of the program in written form without depending on automatic, schematic and mnemonic study
- to write an essay in Japanese, using the knowledge and tools you learned in this course on things that interest you
- to present and discuss the content of a report in Japanese

It is recommended that students possess an intermediate level of Japanese language (Level N3 JLPT) to be able to integrate and deepen issues presented during classes. Moreover, students should have already a good knowledge of modern and contemporary Japanese history.

This class will cover four main topics:
1) Contemporary Japanese economy
2) History of the Japanese economy in the international interactions after World War II
3) Japanese economy in the era of globalization and the changing Asian Market
4) Japanese studies as global studies

All slides of the lessons will be available on the moodle platform dedicated to the course.

Essential reading
1) Japanese economy
Oguma Eiji, Sosetsu: ‘sakinobashi’ to ‘moreochita hitobito’ (Introduction: ‘postponement’ and
‘people left behind’), Oguma Eiji ed., Heiseishi (History of Heisei), Kawadeshobou shinsha.

2) Asian market
Goto Kenta, 2019, Asia Keizai toha nanika: yakushin no dainamizumu to Nihon no katsuro (What is Asian Economy: The dynamism of its rapid progress and a way out for Japan), Chuoukoronsha.

3) Globalization
Chang, Ha-Joon, 2014, Economics: The User's Guide, Pelican Books.

Further reading
Allison, Anne, 2013, Precarious Japan, Duke Universituy Press.
Bayly, Christopher Alan, 2004, The Birth of the Modern World: Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780–1914, Wiley-Blackwell.
Chang, Ha-Joon, 2002, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective, Anthem.
Chang, Ha-Joon, 2010, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, Penguin Books.
Gordon, Andrew, 2013, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Third Edition, New York: Oxford University Press. [chap. 17-18]
Goto Kenta, Tamaki Endo, and Asei Ito eds., 2019, The Asian Economy: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, London and New York: Routledge.
Graeber, David, 2007, Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire, AK press.
Hamaguchi Keiichiro, Atarashi rodo shakai (New Labor Society: Reconstructing the Employment System), Iwanami shoten.
Kumazawa Makoto, 1996, Portraits of The Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, And Managers, Routledge.
Muller, Jerry Z., 2018, The Tyranny of Metrics, Princeton University Press.
Oguma Eiji, Nihon Shakai no Shikumi: Koyo, Kyoiku, Fukushi no Rekishi Shakaigaku (Regime of Japanese Society: Historical Sociology of Employment, Education, and Welfare), Kodansha, 2019.
Ong, Aihwa, 2006, Neoliberalism as exception: mutations in citizenship and sovereignty, Duke University Press.
Raj, Kapil, 2007, Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Suehiro Akira, 2008, Catch-up Industrialization: The Trajectory and Prospects of East Asian Economies, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
Suehiro Akira, 2008, Shinko Asia Keizai Ron (Emerging Asian Economies), Iwanami Shoten.

A report in Japanese or English (max 3000 words in Japanese, max 1500 words in English) focused on the issues of the contemporary Japanese society chosen by the student. The exam assesses the student's ability to apply the knowledge and skills acquired during the course and his communication skills and autonomy of judgment.

NON ATTENDING: The exam program will be the same as the attending students.

Frontal lessons in Japanese.

Attendance and participation during classes will not be evaluated, but are nevertheless strongly encouraged.

English

See the platformi "moodle" for the slides of the lessons (inserted weekly and integral part of the program to be carried out).

written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development