This is a cutting-edge analysis of Japanese responses to globalization by leading Japanese scholars. It adopts a three dimensional structure, linking issues of politics/security and economy/business, at internal and external levels. It is a valuable contribution to explicating the meaning of the consequences of Japan's globalization.

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TAKAHARA AKIO Professor of Modern East Asian Politics, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan KUDO AKIRA Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan SUGITA ATSUSHI Professor of Political Theory, Hôsei University, Japan SHIROYAMA HIDEAKI Associate Professor of Public Administration, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan ÔHASHI HIDEO Professor of Development Economics and East Asian Studies, Senshû University, Japan ARAMAKI KENJI Professor of International Economics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan FUJIWARA KIICHI Professor of International Politics for the Faculty of Law, the Graduate School for Law and Politics, and the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo, Japan TAKAHASHI SUSUMU Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan YAMAMOTO TAKEHIKO Professor of International Politics, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, Japan KIKKAWA TAKEO Professor of Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan TAKAHASHI YOSHIAKI Professor of Business Management and Comparative Management, Faculty of Commerce and Graduate School, Chûo University, Japan

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List of Figures and Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Dialectics of Globalization; H.Hasegawa & G.D.Hook PART ONE: POLITICS AND SECURITY Janus at Large: Neo-Liberalism and Statism in Contemporary Japan; S.Atsushi The Impact of Globalization on Domestic Politics in Japan; T.Susumu Between Terror and Empire: Japan's Response and the Post-9/11 Order; F.Kiichi The Rise of China and Security in East Asia: China's New Concept of Security and Japan's Response; T.Akio Regionalization of Security Communities in East Asia: Myth or Reality?; Y.Takehiko Japan's Policy and Interface Arrangements with International Organizations: Financial and Other Resource Flows; S.Hideaki PART TWO: ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS The Response of Japanese Capitalism to Globalization: A Comparison with the German Case; K.Akira Japanese Corporate Response to Globalization: The State's Role in Economic Development; H.Hasegawa Reorganization of Enterprises in Japan: Focus on Keiretsu and Small Companies; K.Takeo The Response of Japanese Business to the Rise of China; O.Hideo Globalization and the Transfer of Japanese Management Methods; T.Yoshiaki Bretton Woods Institutions and Japan's Response: Past, Present and Future; A.Kenji Index