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Title:

Japan in the Bluegrass / edited by P.P. Karan.

Publisher:

University Press of Kentucky,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xiv, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Automobile industry and trade--Kentucky.
Investments, Japanese--Kentucky.
National characteristics, Japanese.
Japan--Foreign economic relations--United States.
United States--Foreign economic relations--Japan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Japan and Kentucky / P.P. Karan -- Japanese investment in Kentucky / P.P. Karan and W.A. Bladen -- State and local government negotiation with Japanese multinational corporations / David M. Potter -- The geography of Toyota motor manufacturing corporation / Unryu Suganuma -- Yesterday and today: changes in workers' lives in Toyota City, Japan / Yuichiro Nishimura and Kohei Okamoto -- Dynamics of growth and changes in Georgetown, Kentucky / Janet W. Patton and Milton Patton -- Toyota motor manufacturing, Kentucky, and the Kentucky economy / Charles F. Haywood -- Social impacts of Japanese businesses in small communities of Kentucky / Yukio Yotsumoto -- Japanese corporate environmental practices in Kentucky / Miranda Schreurs -- Assessing environmental performance of Japanese industrial facilities in Kentucky / Gary A. O'Dell -- Attitudes toward Japanese investment in Kentucky / Stanley D. Brunn -- Public perception of Toyota motor corporation in Kentucky / James G. Houghland Jr.

ISBN:

9780813121970 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813121973 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45326562

LCCN:

00012374

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)