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• 01 Globalization And Japan

One of the most pressing questions Japan is now facing is how to restructure its post war economic and business systems in a rapidly changing external and internal environment. “Globalization” is the key phrase that describes the direction in which the Japanese economy is heading. There are, however, many problems that Japan must overcome in order to win the trust of the global community.
For a long time, internationalization was associated the Westernization or the Americanization in Japan. Japan borrowed what it saw as the necessary parts of Western culture, science and technology and used them to pursue its own their development for its own benefit. However , the current trend of rapid globalization demands that Japan must assume its relevant economic and political responsibilities in order to achieve world peace and prosperity.