American Health Care Proposals and International Experience
With health care reform at the top of the domestic agenda, this volume assesses the Clinton administration's proposals and several alternative plans by discussing how six other countries have organised health care finance and delivery to achieve universal access to comparable quality care at much lower costs.
What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. This book represents the private and non- governmental indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy. It makes a contribution to the foreign policy debate.
Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Investigations in Amae
Western ideologies traditionally emphasize the concepts of individualism, privacy, freedom, and independence, while the prevailing ethos relegates dependency to a disparaged status. In Japanese society, the divergence from these western ideals can be found in the concept of amae (perhaps best translated as indulgent dependency) which is part of ......
Since 1980, Japan's international economic position has undergone a historic transformation that is now having significant consequences for Japan, the United States, Europe, and other countries around the world. In this book, Edward J. Lincoln analyses the major economic changes that occurred in Japan during the 1980s.
What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. This book represents the first private and non- governmental indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy.
A comparative study of tax systems of Germany and Japan, which is an expanded version of the author's previous work, Veritable Bookkeeping Records. This volume, including new/revised material, argues that Japan should look to the EC and the US for guidance on fairer accounting principles.
The emergence of large trade imbalances among the industrial countries during the 1980s has led to growing disenchantment with the international economic system. In this provocative book by one of America's leading economists, Barry Bosworth argues that disparities are not the result of external infraction, but rather a reflection of domestic ......
Economic Policymaking in Japan and the United States
While much has been written about economic competition between the United States and Japan, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that their relationship is founded essentially on each sides' domestic political concerns.
With all the rapid economic success in Japan, it is easy to forget just how insular the nation has been, and how strikingly different its trading patterns remain from those of other industrialized nations.