Learning From Japan Improving Knowledge of Japanese Technology Management Practices (1994) / Chapter Skim
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1971. Japanese Blue Collar.
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1991. Japanese Language Instruction in the United States: Resources, Practice, and Investment Strategy.
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1990. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991.
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The committee believes that to accomplish this required close working relationship, the programs should provide training in the Japanese language and an understanding of Japanese business and social culture. Although this program is not intended to provide direct grants or aid to individuals, the program should provide its participants with an opportunity to be directly involved in Japanese scientific research, engineering development, and management programs and should be structured to help keep American government and industry abreast of Japanese scientific and technical developments and their importance.
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An increased understanding of Japan's technology management methods, and training in the Japanese language and culture will benefit American scientists, engineers, and managers in establishing long term relationships with Japan. This research, education, and training should serve to create a growing cadre of US researchers and technologists in industry, government, and academia that can stay abreast of Japanese scientific and technical developments and their importance.
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Special consideration will be given to selecting organizations that agree to share program costs on an equitable basis, and which have demonstrated an ability to promote interchange of Japanese and U.S. scientists, engineers, and managers, including placing U.S.
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is another shreds and patches-like interpretation of Japan that emphasizes social, cultural and political incongruity and contradiction in Japan. This essay argues that interpretations of the Japanese business and economic system are inevitably linked to the frames of reference with which researchers approach Japan.
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MILESTONE STUDIES OF THE JAPANESE FIRM James Abegglen's The Japanese Factory (Abegglen, 1958) , published in 1958, represented a substantial step forward in Westerners' knowledge of the Japanese workplace, although it was rooted in a historical interpretation that subsequently has been widely criticized.
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Late industrialization and late learning are what make Japanese industrial relations and employment institutions different. At long last, here was a story that did not assume the non-Western world was simply a pale imitation of a more advanced, Western world.
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The functioning of quality-control circles in Japan is predicated on what has been found to work there, and quality-control circles in the United States are likewise related to what works here; the workings of quality control circles in the two countries are necessarily different. As this quick review of milestone studies in Japanese business and management has revealed, Western studies of Japan necessarily reflect a dialectical process: what is studied about Japan is related to what is happening in Western academic circles.
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Japanese business and management issues are mainstream academic fare today. What we are is increasingly linked to what they are.
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1971. Japanese Blue Collar.
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There are a few classes on Japanese technology in the M.B.A,-East Asian Studies curriculum. Program elements: The grant was requested to "expand our interdisciplinary research program in high-technology management that builds on work already underway between faculty at the Haas School of Business and the College of Engineering." Language instruction, fellowships and internships, MOT dissemination, and a television link among national laboratories were to support this primary goal.
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Four new faculty positions were filled to accomplish the MOT emphasis of Japanese language instruction. To facilitate the recruitment of the best candidate available, the director of the Center for Japanese Studies persuaded the Berkeley campus administration to convert the new faculty position in technical Japanese in the East Asian Language Program to a permanent tenured position.
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Currently they have a two-year program for Japanese studies. There is an Asian Studies Center that brings together 13 university departments to offer a wide variety of courses relating to Asia.
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to understand Japanese industry and practices of managing technology. It now consists of a two-year preparation with one Japanese language and one non-language course each semester.
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The Asian studies program was established in 1969 and has developed an extensive range of course offerings in Japanese language, history, and culture. The University of Pittsburgh is a federally designated National Resource Center for East Asian Studies.
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Language training - A highly developed Japanese language training program was in place at the University of Pittsburgh, and has been strengthened as a result of the grant. The program includes • "First (and Second)
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The U.S.-Japan Technology Management Center involves the close collaboration of five major groups: the School of Engineering, Graduate School of Business, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Asian Language Department/East Asian Language Program, and the Overseas Studies Program. The Stanford Japan Center was opened in Kyoto in 1989.
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• "Optoelectronics" analyses the use of new optoelectronic devices in the Real World Computing Project. • "Semiconductor Manufacturing" is a symposium on Sensor Based Manufacturing held at the Stanford Japan Center in May 1993.
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Fifty-one organizations in the United States, from the Asian Studies Center of the Heritage Foundation to the Smithsonian Institution, encourage exposure to Japanese science and engineering through cooperative research in Japan. Language: According to the National Foreign Language Center, there are currently over 400 postsecondary Japanese language training programs in the United States.
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Non-academic institutions: • The Asia Society, New York, New York • The Japan Society, New York, New York
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