Tag: Japan
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When German Influences Met Competing Ideologies: Constitutional Design of Executive-Legislative Relations in Post-WWII China and Japan
Introduction While the legal systems of China and Japan were both historically rooted in traditions, social rules, and Confucian values, Western laws and legal doctrines reshaped both countries’ legal systems in large parts of their modern history. Among those Western influences, German laws played a crucial role. Shortly after the Second World War, China and…
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The Stratified Expansion of Higher Education and Employment Inequalities in Japan
In recent decades, manufacturing automation and information technology have transformed the employment structures in advanced capitalist economies. According to Oesch (2015) and Sachs (2020), while lower-skilled manufacturing occupations decrease, the expansion of higher education upskills the labor force and places them in the growing high-skilled occupations that complement technology and automation. However, Japan seems to…