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This timely compilation of 21 essays covers the wide range of issues that confronted Japan in the late 1990s and provides a mainly Canadian perspective on domestic and international politics, the economy, business, technology, social issues, and the environment.

The papers presented in this publication cover the following topics: lessons from the past concerning national sovereignty and firms; Canadian responses to globalization; problems of foreign workers; immigration, the Canadian labour force, and structural change; present conditions of globalized private enterprise in Canada; globalization of Japanese enterprise; economic issues shared by Japan and Canada and economic structural adjustment; and international economic integration and national policy diversity.