... 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...

.... Japan provides a unique research setting for media framing of foreign aid policy. In the post-Second World War period, Japan adopted a comprehensive approach to foreign aid through official development aid (ODA) and Japanese FDI. However, although it is one of the major donor nations in the world...

... --> 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...