In the post-bubble era, Japan is going through major structural upheavals and the relevance of the five perspectives presented here on the implications of these changes for the Japanese employment system can hardly be overstated. The institutions and practices of the Japanese employment system...

While the development of shopping centres has reached a certain degree of saturation in the US and in Europe, shopping centre development in Asia is progressing rapidly. This study looks at this development by introducing two recently opened urban shopping malls, one in Singapore and one in...

Die deutschsprachige Japanologie hat ihr Gesicht in den letzten zwanzig Jahren erheblich verändert. Stand früher das Studium von Sprache und Literatur so­ wie z.T. auch der Geistesgeschichte des vormodernen Japan im Mittelpunkt, so existieren heute eine Reihe von japanologischen...