... gender equality, and second-loop gendering, which examines the underlying assumptions of social norms, values and beliefs, offers insights into the challenges Japan faces in achieving female leadership and equality. Second-loop gendering may help explain the paradoxical state of Japan’s women...

... in job quality and decent work to underprivileged workers in the low-pay retail sector in Japan. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on survey questionnaire data and interviews with workers and management in a foreign retailer in Japan. Findings The findings suggest that even where MNEs...

... can decide upon matters of shared interest (Hjarvard, 2008). Using Japan as a unique example that underscores this issue, the paper investigates how the Japanese media conveyed the country’s aid policy and what type of bias is present in the news, depending on which language (either Japanese...

... --> Japan Japanese capitalism Institutional adjustment Societal coordination During the 1980s, when terms such as deregulation, liberalisation and de‐nationalisation entered public consciousness and the notion of popular capitalism articulated itself in the growth of share ownership...