Japanization


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Japanization

the adoption by organizations elsewhere of work organization and employment practices usually found in large Japanese companies. See QUALITY CIRCLE, JUST-IN-TIME (JIT) SYSTEM/TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM, KANBAN, KAIZAN, JIDOKA, KEIRETSU, HOSHIN, FIVE S, SEVEN WASTES, SINGLE MINUTE EXCHANGE OF DIES, SINGLE UNION DEALS, ENTERPRISE UNION (see TRADE UNION entry), NO-STRIKE AGREEMENT.
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But US sensitivity to the position of Hawaii was dramatically enhanced, and the white Hawaiian oligarchy, ever more fearful of Japanization, looked to Washington for protection.
(41) "The Japanization of Christianity," Christian Century 56 (August 2, 1939), 944; T.
Westernization and Japanization. In Tradition and modernization in Japanese culture, ed.
At the same time, Japanese rule led to the "Japanization" of the island, including compulsory Japanese education and pressuring residents of Taiwan to adopt Japanese names.
Smith, eds., Global Japanization (London and New York: Routledge, 1994).
Not without resistance from their elders, Taiwanese children, at whom this particular method of "Japanization" was aimed, embraced the sport.
As Arjun Appadurai points out as a warning against taking a too-simplistic view of globalization as Americanization, Japanization has been as equally, if not more, worrisome for many Koreans as Americanization (32).
(19) Akiko Otake and Shuhei Hosokawa, "Karaoke in East Asia: Modernization, Japanization or Asianization?" in Karaoke Around the World, pp.
It does so for Katzenstein via the initial fusion of "Americanization" and "Japanization." In this process, Japan mediates and "reworks" US cultural influence and geostrategic and commercial demands and influences over the rest of the region.
From 'Americanization' of Japan to 'Japanization' of America in human resource management/industrial relations.