In order to regain its competitiveness, Japan is restructuring and globalizing its business and economics system, as well as other aspects of society. How it is resolving this is of huge interest to its global trading partners.

JENNIFER CHAN-TIBERGHINEN Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada KEISUKE ENOKIDO School of Community and Regional Planning, Vancouver, Canada KAZUHIRO HARAKAWA Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan KOZO HORIUCHI Faculty of Humanity and Environment, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan ETSUKO KATO Division of International Studies, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan TAKANOBU NAKAJIMA Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan ALICE NAKAMURA School of Business, University of Alberta, Canada PITMAN POTTER Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada ATSUSHI SEIKE Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan SHUJIRO URATA School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan SINH VINH Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada YOSHIHIKO WADA Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

Introduction - M.Nakamura
PART 1: JAPANESE VIEWS ON GLOBALIZATION: Ryotaro Shiba (1923 1996) and the Call for Meiji Values in a Global Age - S.Vinh
Surviving a Globalized World: Lessons to be Learned from Japan's Problem Solving Incapability - Y.Wada
The Mind Roaming above the Ocean: Mental Health of Young Japanese Sojourners in Vancouver - E.Kato
Okinawa after the Cold War and the Return of American Military Bases - K.Enokido
PART 2: CHANGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT: INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND GLOBALIZATION: Aging, Female and Foreign Workers, and Japanese Labour Markets: An International Perspective - A.Nakamura, M.Nakamura &
A.Seike
Gaijin (Foreign) Sumo Wrestlers Help Japanese Tradition to March on - T.Nakajima &
K.Harakawa
Gender as Intersectionality: Multiple Discrimination against Minority Women in Japan - J.Chan Tiberghinen
PART 3: POST BUBBLE JAPANESE BUSINESS: ADJUSTING TO THE NEW ERA Why Does Japan Receive So Little Direct Investment from Abroad? - S.Urata
Japanese Society under Marketization and Globalization - T.Nakajima
The Post Bubble Japanese Business System and Globalization: Implications for Japanese Society - M.Nakamura &
K.Horiuchi