On encountering the West midway through the nineteenth century, Japan was diverted, reluctantly, from the long- travelled, twisting paths that it had been following into its own interior for centuries. These westernising forces ...

Japan is known as a country in which a potent central power reigns over a compliant pyramidal hierarchy. For planning this has meant strong centralized government control. Yet, examples of autonomy have always existed ...

This paper reassesses the role of women in judo in Japan, from its secluded and restricted beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the gradual changes in gender and social paradigms triggered by the influence of Western ...

Japan has been the subject of many studies in the field of economics and business since the country’s economy took off after World War II. Its remarkable progress in the three decades after 1960 turned it into an economic ...