Koji Taira

Biographic Data

ID85853
NAMEKoji Taira
GIVEN NAMESKoji
FAMILY NAMETaira
SIGNATURETAIRA K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS43
AUTHOR COUNT60
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1958
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX4

  • Social Cohesion and Alienation

    Koji Taira, George A De Vos et al.BOOKSocial Cohesion and Alienation2019

    An attempt at a final summary of much of my work in anthropology has been divided into two separate volumes, Status Inequality: The Self in Culture, 1990, published by Sage Publications and this present volume, Social Cohesion and Alienation: Minorities in the United States and Japan. Many of the themes touched upon in both volumes have appeared in a series of writings that stretch through a period starting in the early sixties through the late e…

  • Okinawan Environmentalists Put Robert Gates and DOD on Trial. The Dugong and the Fate of the Henoko Air Station

    Open AccessKoji TairaARTICLEJapan focus2008

    On September 25, 2003, in San Francisco, a coalition of U.S. and international conservation groups filed a lawsuit (Okinawa Dugong v. Rumsfeld C-03-4350) in U.S. District Court against the U.S. Department of Defense plans to construct a new air base on reclaimed land over a coral reef that would destroy the remaining habitat of the endangered Okinawa dugong, a marine mammal of cultural and historical significance to the Okinawa people. This new a…

  • The China-Japan Clash Over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands

    Open AccessKoji TairaARTICLEJapan focus2004

    Which country should the islands called Diaoyu by the Chinese and Senkaku by the Japanese belong to, China or Japan? Currently, these islands are under Japanese control, but China also claims sovereignty over them. When signing the 1978 Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship, then Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping said: "Our generation is not wise enough to find common language on this [Diaoyu/Senkaku] question. The next generation will certainly …

  • San'ya Blues

    Koji Taira, Edward FowlerARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1998

  • The Economic Emergence of Modern Japan

    Open AccessE Sydney Crawcour, Takafusa Nakamura et al.BOOKEconomic Emergence of Modern Japan1997

    The Economic Emergence of Modern Japan is a useful book for those interested in how Japan succeeded in transforming an agricultural economy into an advanced industrial economy. This volume brings together chapters from The Cambridge History of Japan, Volumes 5 and 6, and The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Volume 7, part 2. Each of the seven chapters, written by leading specialists in Japanese economic history, explains in an authoritative,…

  • Employment Flexibility and Joblessness in Low-Growth, Restructured Japan

    Open AccessKoji Taira, Solomon B LevineARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1996

    Today, with the longest recession since World War II, unemployment is a growing fear among Japan's 52 million wage and salary earners. White-collar employees now outnumber blue-collar employees, and the labor force is increasingly mobile. As the structure of Japan's economy continues to change, Japanese labor markets are especially vulnerable to deterioration, without job creation sufficient to overcome job losses. Only a minority of workers have…

  • Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan. Dennis L. McNamara

    Koji TairaARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1996

  • "Japan's "Guest Workers

    Koji Taira, Haruo Shimada et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1995

  • Japanese Part-Time Farming

    Koji Taira, Raymond Adelard JussaumeARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1993

  • Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan

    Koji Taira, William Dean KinzleyARTICLEPacific Affairs1992

  • A History of Japanese Economic Thought.

    Koji Taira, T Morris-SuzukiARTICLEThe American Historical Review1991

    1. Economic Thought in Tokugawa Japan 2. The Introduction of Western Economic Thought: From the Meiji Restoration to the First World War 3. Economic Debates in Interwar Japan 4. Postwar Marxian Economics 5. Economic Theory and the 'Economic Miracle' 6. Contemporary Japanese Economic Thought

  • Japan, an Imminent Hegemon

    Open AccessKoji TairaARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1991Cited by: 4References: 3

    Japan has been thrust into a leading role in world affairs by its own economic success and by the confluence of two powerful global trends: (1) hegemonic cycles that anticipate the rise of a new hegemon as a consequence of the relative decline of the United States, and (2) the end of history itself, which revolutionizes the meaning of hegemony and international order. Japan's hegemonic qualifications are examined with respect to economic resource…

  • Culture, Control, and Commitment

    Koji Taira, James R Lincoln et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1991

    Based on a large comparative survey of Japanese and American employees, this book seeks to explain the greater motivation and commitment of the Japanese workforce. Is this attributable to the management and organization of Japanese factories, or to deep-seated Japanese cultural values

  • Organizational Change in Japanese Factories

    Koji Taira, Robert M Marsh et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1991

  • Modernization and beyond

    Koji Taira, Taira Koji et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1990

  • The State and Labor in Modern Japan

    Koji Taira, Sheldon GaronARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1989

  • The Other Japan

    Koji Taira, E Patricia TsurumiARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1989

    The trends and practices of public administration are ever changing and it is essential that they be appraised from time to time. Designed as a capstone survey of the field, The State of Public Administration focuses on leading edge issues, challenges, and opportunities that confront PA study and practice in the 21st Century

  • Development, Growth, and the Long RunThe Economic Development of Japan

    Koji TairaARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1989

  • Labor Confederation in Japan

    Koji TairaARTICLECurrent History1988

    Essay| April 01 1988 Labor Confederation in Japan Koji Taira Koji Taira Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Koji Taira, formerly with the International Labor Office, Geneva, Switzerland, is the author of Economic Development and the Labor Market in Japan (New York: C olumbia University Press, 1970) and coauthor of An Outline of Japanese Economic History (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1979). Search for other work…

  • Intercorporate Relations

    Open AccessJ Pfeffer, Michael Soref et al.BOOKIntercorporate Relations1988

    Within the last decade, researchers studying business organizations have come to realize that corporate behaviour cannot be explained in terms of the actions of individual firms alone, and that in order to understand how businesses operate it is necessary to explore the relationships among them. This volume constitutes the first compilation of work by leading international scholars who have adopted a structural approach to the study of business, …

  • Why has Japan 'succeeded'? Western technology and the Japanese ethos

    Koji TairaARTICLEHistory of Political Economy1984

    Other| March 01 1984 Why has Japan ‘succeeded’? Western technology and the Japanese ethos Michio Morishima. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. ix, 207. $19.95. Koji Taira Koji Taira Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1984) 16 (1): 151–153. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-16-1-151 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ko…

  • Educational Choice and Labor Markets in Japan

    Koji Taira, Mary Jean Bowman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1983

  • Japan's Economic Aid

    Koji TairaARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1983

  • An Outline of Japanese Economic History, 1603-1940. Major Works and Research Findings

    William B Hauser, MIKIO SUMIYA et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1980Cited by: 2

  • Colonialism in Foreign Subsidiaries

    Koji TairaARTICLEAsian Survey1980Cited by: 1References: 2

    Research Article| April 01 1980 Colonialism in Foreign Subsidiaries: Lessons from Japanese Investment in Thailand Koji Taira Koji Taira Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1951) 20 (4): 373–396. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643864 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite…