Includes bibliographical references and index.

Japan and ASEAN, the impact of globalization / Lee Poh Ping -- Japan, postcrisis Indonesia, and the Japanese role in East Timor development / Geoffrey C. Gunn -- Adaptability improvement of Japanese international human resource management, a comparison between Western and Japanese multinationals in ASEAN / Mitsuhide Shiraki -- Human methods or human results, contrasting approaches to the transfer of Japanese manufacturing methods in Singapore and Korea / Ronald Rodgers -- Crosscutting group affiliations and employee attachment, cross-cultural management among US and Japanese transplants in Thailand / Stephen J. Appold, Sununta Siengthai, and John D. Kasarda -- Shifting identities, making sense of experiences of Japanese female students in a global era / Takae Ichimoto -- Crime and visual shock, Japanese rock subculture / Alwyn Lim -- Consuming culture, the practice of Aikido in Singapore / Kevin S.Y. Tan -- Primordial milk, Japanese cinema's representation of the Philippines / Rolando B. Tolentino -- The pleasure and terror of transglobalization / Rolando B. Tolentino.