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This article investigates the relational nature of globalization between Japan and Britain, and addresses Japanization in this context. Japanization, defined as Japanese influence on UK management styles (particularly in the area of production management), will be examined through three case studieswhich illustrate the context of Japanization in terms of the convergence of British management towards human resource management (HRM). Hallmarks of Japanization are methods and techniques of production management which overlap with those of HRM. It is also significant that the diffusion of Japanization and HRM in Britain took place concurrently, leading to the conclusion that Japanization and HRM represent a synergistic relationship of managerial strategy, on the one hand, offering suitable conditions for Japanization, and, on the other, the enhanced diffusion of HRM in Britain through Japanization. This paper also examines how British academics have reflected Japanization in their research. In this way, it is also possible to pinpoint the influence of Japanese techniques and methods effective for production management. Although Japanization and HRM overlap both in content and period of diffusion, in the long term Japanization may be considered as an integral part of the general diffusion of HRM in Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Compares the paths to administrative reform taken by Great Britain and Japan. Query regarding the effects of Great Britain's adoption of the Whitehall model in teaching Japan reformers; Need for Japanese reform in values and institutions for survival in a changing world; Determination of the impact of the reform.

This article focuses on British intelligence in China, Japan, and Korea from the end of the Second World War to the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950. It seeks to ascertain whether the collection of secret intelligence and its subsequent interpretation provided an accurate picture of Soviet and local communist intentions in East Asia. Since the war against Japan began, the region was largely an American responsibility and remained so after 1945 when they occupied Japan, Korea below the 38th parallel, and sent forces to China. Much of the intelligence effort for East Asia also devolved upon the Americans. Yet, the British retained an intelligence interest there not least because of their extensive commercial assets in China and the region's proximity to Britain's imperial position in Southeast Asia. That interest gathered pace after growing Communist threats inside China and Korea. However, the available intelligence resources for the Far East as a whole were scarce, making it difficult to piece together a clear picture of fast moving events in East Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a survey of the activities of British diplomat Ernest Satow in Tokyo, Japan from 1895 through 1900. Reforms made in Japan since Satow's departure in 1883; Briefings he recieved in England regarding the relations of Japan and China; Assessment of Satow's ministerial career in Tokyo.

Discusses orientalism in terms of systems of representation and knowledge reflecting the relations between Great Britain and Japan. Universality of civilization; Conventions of rhetorical figures; Metaphorically-gendered relationship.