E-Journal

January/February 2016 Issue

January/February 2016 Issue

Where Is Japanese Management Heading - Evolution or Revolution?

Publisher's Note
ASEAN Community Building & Competitive Liberalization
By Kazumasa Kusaka
Cover Lead
Where Is Japanese Management Heading —Evolution or Revolution? Assessment of Reform of Corporate Governance & Diversity Management
By Naoyuki Haraoka (executive managing director, JEF & Editor-in-chief, Japan SPOTLIGHT)
Cover Story • Where Is Japanese Management Heading — Evolution or Revolution? • 1
The Direction of Japanese Corporate Governance The Key to Enhancing Corporate Value
By Yasunori Nakagami (CEO of Misaki Capital Inc.)
Cover Story • Where Is Japanese Management Heading — Evolution or Revolution? • 2
How Is Japanese Business Management Taking Advantage of the Corporate Governance Code?
By Japan SPOTLIGHT
Cover Story • Where Is Japanese Management Heading — Evolution or Revolution? • 3
Towards New Corporate Governance in Japan: Positive Move or Partial Loss of a Fruitful Singularity?
By Jean-Yves Archer (Economist)
Cover Story • Where Is Japanese Management Heading — Evolution or Revolution? • 4
Will "Diversity" Save Japanese Companies from Long-Time Stagnation?
By Naoyuki Haraoka (executive managing director, JEF & Editor-in-chief, Japan SPOTLIGHT)
Cover Story • Where Is Japanese Management Heading — Evolution or Revolution? • 5
Corporate Governance Reform in a Large Japanese Company How Has Hitachi Achieved Change?
By Japan SPOTLIGHT
Cover Story • Where Is Japanese Management Heading — Evolution or Revolution? • 6
Electric Appliance Giant Hitachi Inspiring Next Generation Through "Diversity"
By Japan SPOTLIGHT
Cover Story • Where Is Japanese Management Heading — Evolution or Revolution? • 7
Foreign Help Wanted: Easing Japan's Labor Shortages
By Giovanni Ganelli (Deputy Head of Office of the IMF's OAP in Tokyo) Naoko Miake (IMF)
Cover Story • Where Is Japanese Management Heading — Evolution or Revolution? • 8
Can Human Resource Management Systems in Japan Shift to Talent Management?
By Naoko Ishihara (Editor-in-chief of "Works" magazine, Recruit Works Institute)
Special Article 1
Is "Abenomics" Working?
By Dennis Botman (Deputy Division Chief in the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department) Kalpana Kochhar (Deputy Director in the Asia and Pacific Department of the IMF)
Special Article 2
Stagnation of Trade or Trade Reorganization? What Future for GVCs?
By Gary Hawke (Emeritus Professor of Victoria University of Wellington & Senior Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research)
Special Article 3
Beauty & Sadness in Yasunari Kawabata
By Mukesh Williams (Professor of Humanities at Soka University>
INTERVIEW 1
Workmanship in Japan Restoring Tohoku Region & Vitalizing an Aging Society
By Japan SPOTLIGHT
INTERVIEW 2
Tourism as a Foreign Policy Tool & Engine for Growth
By Japan SPOTLIGHT
INTERVIEW 3
Aman Off the Beach
By Japan SPOTLIGHT
VIEWS OF JAPANESE YOUNGER GENERATION
Embracing Diversity
By Sagang Chung (4th year student at Keio University)

Japan SPOTLIGHT