Co-Editors :
J.S.Eades, Harumi Befu

Other Contributers :
Mitchell W. Sedgwick, Ulrich Moehwald, Brian McVeigh, Beverley Bishop,
John H. Davis, Jr., Wolfgang Herbert, Carla Eades, Yuriko Nishiyama,
Hiroko Yanase, Andreas Riessland, John Clammer

Contents

1. Introduction: Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan

2. Globalization as Human Dispersal: From the Perspective of Japan

3. The Globalization of Japanese Managers

4. Trends in Value Change in Contemporary Japan

5. Education Reform in Japan: Fixing Education or Fostering Economic Nation-Statism?

6. The Diversification of Employment and Women's Work in Contemporary Japan

7. Blurring the Boundaries of the Buraku

8. Yoseba and Ninpudashi: Changing Patterns of Employment on the Fringes of the Japanese Economy

9. The Yakuza and the Law

10. Houses of Everlasting Bliss: Globalization and the Production of Buddhist Altars in Hikone

11. A Mountain of Problems: Ethnography among Mount Haguro's Feuding Yamabushi

12. Received Dreams: Consumer Capitalism, Social Process, and the Management of the Emotions in Contemporary Japan