Sport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a…

Over the past ten years, the corporate governance environment in East Asia has undergone a significant transformation. The Asian Financial crisis, together with Japan’s long…

As we enter the 21st century it is clear that the economic growth China has enjoyed has been extraordinary. Although Western countries continue to dominate…

Offering a comprehensive account of the role of trade unions in Asia today, this book, put together by two editors who have published extensively in…

This book draws on the research of some of the leading scholars in the fields of Jewish-Islamic relations, the Israeli-Arab conflict and political Islam. These…

East Asia has led rapid economic growth in the last few decades with India joining them over the last five years. Automotive parts manufacturers have…

Asian interregional economic cooperation has assumed greater prominence with the rise of Asia’s two giant economies of China and India. The economic liberalization of China’s…

In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in modern Japan, including automobile,…

Many people in the West portray Japan as being fixed in its ways, and unable to change, and consequently risking national decline and international loss…

Policy convergence and policy learning have emerged as central themes in the study of public policy in recent years.

This book complements the rich literature…