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050 4 |a HC462.9  |b .J327 1998eb 
245 0 0 |a Japan--why it works, why it doesn't :  |b economics in everyday life /  |c edited by James Mak [and others]. 
260 |a Honolulu :  |b University of Hawaii Press,  |c ©1998. 
300 |a 1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages) :  |b illustrations 
500 |a "A Latitude 20 book." 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210) and index. 
505 0 |a Do the Japanese live better than Americans? / Charles Yuji Horioka -- Why avoid the altar? / Andrew Mason and Naohiro Ogawa -- Why go to school after school? / Shigeyuki Abe and Kazuhiro Igawa -- Why so many gifts? / Robert Parry -- Why is Pachinko so popular? / Shigeyuki Abe and James Mak -- Why are the Japanese obsessed with luxury brand-name goods? / Kazuo Nishiyama -- Why are there so many small shops in Japan? / James Mak and Shyam Sunder -- How do the Japanese and Americans spend their money? / James Mak -- How can the Japanese manage without personal checking accounts? / Toshiki Jinushi and James Mak -- What are most Japanese doing on tax day? / Robert McCleery -- Why do students take it easy at the university? / Shigeyuki Abe [and others] -- Why do Japanese companies hire only spring graduates? / Teruyuki Higa -- Why don't workers claim all their overtime? / Teruyuki Higa and Karen Lupardus -- How do workers get paid? / Naoki Mitani -- Do the Japanese work till they drop? / Yoshitaka Fukui -- Why do the Japanese save so much? / Charles Yuji Horioka -- Why is Japan a paradise of vending machines? / Robert Parry -- Why do doctors prescribe so many pills? / Akihiko Kawaura and Sumner LaCroix -- Why do bank automatic teller machines shut down at 7 P.M.? / Shyam Sunder -- Why is rice so expensive in Japan? / Susumu Hondai -- How can the Japanese spend so little on health care? / Matthew Loke and James Mak -- How does Japan's largest bank work? / Toshiki Jinushi -- Why do so many Japanese contribute to public TV? / Kazuhiro Igawa and James Mak -- Why are so few people on welfare in Japan? Yoko Kimura -- What are the Keiretsu and why do some U.S. companies dislike them? / Gary Kikuchi -- Is Japan an egalitarian society? / Harry Oshima. 
650 0 |a National characteristics, Japanese. 
650 7 |a POLITICAL SCIENCE  |x Economic Conditions. 
650 7 |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS  |x Economics  |x Comparative. 
650 7 |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS  |x Economic Conditions. 
650 7 |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS  |x Economic History. 
650 7 |a Economic history. 
650 7 |a Manners and customs. 
650 1 7 |a Economische situatie. 
650 1 7 |a Nationale kenmerken. 
650 0 7 |a Wirtschaft. 
650 0 7 |a Alltag. 
651 0 |a Japan  |x Economic conditions  |y 1945- 
651 0 |a Japan  |x Social life and customs  |y 1945- 
651 7 |a Japan. 
651 7 |a Japan. 
700 1 |a Mak, James, 
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