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The Changing Labor Market, Industrial Relations and Labor Policy Tadashi Hanami*
The Changing Labor Market, Industrial Relations and Labor Policy(Tadashi Hanami) ꌙ 27 노 동 정 책 연 구 연 구 논 문 2004. 제4권 제3호 pp. 27~42 ⓒ 한 국 노 동 연 구 원 1) The Changing Labor Market, Industrial Relations and Labor Policy Tadashi Hanami* Since the collapse of the bubble economy, the once world-acclaimed Japanese-style management tends to be either discarded or ignored. However, more recently the system is being reevaluated, especially by some of the business leaders who successfully revamped their companies amidst the general persistent serious economic stagnation. According to them many Japanese companies failed not because they were under Japanese style management but they failed to continue the process of self-reform and deal with global challenge. In spite of such reevaluation of Japanese style, some of the significant features of most successful cases of spectacular recovery of once seriously troubled companies are: 1. Leaders coming from the outside introduced drastic innovations, 2. implanted the spirit of competition, 3. promotion and employment from outside, 4. bold restructuring, 5. leaders are distinguished by their ability to communicate. All these features seem to be incompatible with traditional employment practices, most of them being features of flexibilization of the labor market. Regardless of the outcome of the debate on the merit of life-time employment, there is probably no need to mention that the practice is declining both in terms of the number of workers covered by this system and the role that plays within the contemporary Japanese labor market. The number and percentage of non-regular workers such as part-time workers, temporary 투고일 : 2004년 2월 24일, 심사의뢰일 :8월 19일, 심사완료일 :9월 3일 * Professor Emeritus, Sophia University, Former President, IIRA, Japan([email protected]) 28 ꌙ 노동정책연구․2004년 제4권 제3호 workers among the total number of employed persons have been growing constantly and steadily within these recent decades. -
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SPORTS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 Eriksson: I signed for United Fox to have heart surgery Afridi: Pakistan can beat SA LONDON: Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has claimed that he signed a CHARLOTTE: Denver Broncos coach John Fox will have an aortic DUBAI: Dashing all-rounder Shahid Afridi yesterday showed confidence Pakistan can pull contract to succeed Alex Ferguson at Manchester United in 2002. heart valve replacement operation in the next few days and miss off a one-day series win despite the return of Hashim Amla and Dale Steyn in the South The Swede, who coached England between 2001 and 2006, made the claim in his several weeks of the NFL season, the team said Saturday. African squad for the last three matches. new autobiography, in which he also revealed that he clashed with Ferguson over Fox was hospitalized Saturday after feeling light-headed while Afridi starred with 3-26 to add to his 20-ball 26 in Pakistan’s comprehensive 66-run win Wayne Rooney’s participation at the 2006 World Cup. playing golf at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was in the second day-night international in Dubai on Friday which levelled the five-match Ferguson announced that he would step down as United manager in 2002 and taken to an area hospital, where he underwent medical tests. series at 1-1. although he later reversed his decision, Eriksson says he struck a deal with the club to While the information had been kept private, Fox had been Pakistan spurned a golden opportunity to win the first match in Sharjah on replace the Scot. -
Robert K. Fitts.Pdf
Wally Yonamine The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball Wally Yonamine Robert K. Fitts Foreword by Senator Daniel K. Inouye UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS LINCOLN AND LONDON © 2008 by Robert K. Fitts All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fitts, Robert K., 1965– Wally Yonamine : the man who changed Japanese baseball / Robert K. Fitts ; foreword by Senator Daniel K. Inouye. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8032-1381-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Yonamine, Wally K., 1925– 2. Baseball players— Japan—Biography. 3. Baseball players—United States—Biography. 4. Baseball—Japan. I. Title. gv863.77.a1f584 2008 796.357092—dc22 [B] 2008006869 Set in Minion by Bob Reitz. Designed by Ray Boeche. In memory of William Hoffman, because grandpops are special And for Vera Hoffman, who always said I should become a baseball writer Contents Foreword ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue: A Gamble 1 1. “Just a Country Boy from Olowalu, Maui” 7 2. Football Star 19 3. The San Francisco 49ers 34 4. Lucky Breaks 48 5. Of Seals and Bees 63 6. A Winter of Uncertainty 73 7. Debut 84 8. The Jackie Robinson of Japan 91 9. Settling In 117 10. Lessons from Santa Maria 136 11. Gaijin Dageki Oh— Foreign Batting Champion 161 12. World Travelers 174 13. Hard Labor 187 14. Lucky Seven 211 15. Young Giants 226 16. End of an Era 248 17. Coach 259 18. Yonamine Kantoku 271 19. Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First 282 20. Suketto 301 21. -
Whitingcorporal Punishment Has Long History in Japanese Sports | the Japan Times
Corporal punishment has long history in Japanese sports First in a two-part series Getting slapped by a coach has always been, as far as I could see, simply another aspect of sports training in Japan. I remember being invited to see a practice session at the Isenoumi sumo stable in eastern Tokyo back in the early 1960s shortly after I arrived for my first stay in Japan. Obese young sumo wrestlers grappled with each other and a rikishi (senior wrestler) corrected their form by issuing violent blows across their back and thighs with a shinai (bamboo stick), resulting in cries of pain from the participants. “Physical punishment is part of their education,” I was told. “It makes them better wrestlers.” It was standard operating procedure. When I got to know the imported Hawaiian wrestler Takamiyama (a.k.a. Jesse Kualahula) he told me how much he had hated being hit as a young, up-and-coming wrestler. Yet when he retired and became a stablemaster himself, he did the same thing, occasionally using a baseball bat as well as the shinai. He even punched one of his wrestlers, Akebono (Chad Rowan, a fellow Hawaiian import), in the jaw, when he grew incensed at what he perceived as Akebono’s laziness and lack of a killer instinct. “Without the shinai,” he said, “sumo wouldn’t be sumo.” Taibatsu, or corporal punishment, was just as common in some professional wrestling organizations, as I discovered. The famed professional wrestler of the 1950s and 1960s Rikidozan would hit his younger wrestlers with sake bottles and other objects to toughen them up.