Anthropology 254 | Optional materials
A sampler of New York Times stories on Japanese work and workplaces
NB: the URL that follows each article is a link to the pdf file for students on Yale servers only.
1980. Scott-Stokes, Henry, "In Japan, Fat Expense Accounts Pay for Lavish Year-End Feasts." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_801228.pdf
1981. Lohr, Steve, "Business Cards: A Japanese Ritual." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_810914.pdf
1981. Lohr, Steve, "New in Japan: The Manless Factory." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_811213.pdf
1981. Lohr, Steve, "W. Edwards Deming: He Taught the Japanese." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_810510.pdf
1981. Lohr, Steve, "Helping Business, Japanese Style." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_811117.pdf
1982. Scott-Stokes, Henry, "Japan's Love Affair With the Robot." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT-Magazine_820110.pdf
1982. Lohr, Steve, "How Job Rotation Works for Japanese." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_820712.pdf
1983. Lohr, Steve, "Japan's New Breed of 'Office Ladies'." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_831227.pdf
1985. Haberman, Clyde, "Spring Training in Japan, Or How a Bow Is Born." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_850422.pdf
1987. Haberman, Clyde, "Like It Or Not, Japan Has 20,000 Fugitive Guests." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_871117.pdf
1988. Chira, Susan, "It's Official! Vacations Really Aren't Un-Japanese." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_880806.pdf
1988. Holusha, John, "Improving Quality, the Japanese Way." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_880720.pdf
1988. Chira, Susan, "Motto for a New Breed: Less Work and More." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_880125.pdf
1988. Chira, Susan, "Japan's Big Spenders: Newly Rich and Definitely Upscale, Entrepreneurs Cash in on an Appetite for the Good Life." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT-Magazine_880410.pdf
1988. Chira, Susan, "Magazines Pursue Japan's Working Woman." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_880530.pdf
1988. Chira, Susan, "For Japan's Working Women, a Slow Recognition." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_881204.pdf
1989. Sterngold, James, "Japan Is Divided on Foreign Workers." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_891029.pdf
1990. Weisman, Steven R., "Fellow Asians, Yes, But Where's the Fellowship?" http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_900103.pdf
1990. Sanger, David E., "Tokyo Tries to Find Out If "Salarymen" Are Working Themselves to Death." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_900319.pdf
1993. Pollack, Andrew, "For Japan Inc., Company Rosters That Never Die." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_930908.pdf
1993. Pollack, Andrew, "Japanese Starting to Link Pay to Performance, Not Tenure." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_931002.pdf
1993. Holusha, John, "W. Edwards Deming, Expert on Business Management, Dies at 93." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_931221.pdf
1993. Pollack, Andrew, "Jobless in Japan: A Special Kind of Anguish." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_930521.pdf
1993. Pollack, Andrew, "Chronicling the Drama of Japanese Business." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_930517.pdf
1993. Pollack, Andrew, "Japan Finds Ways to Save Tradition of Lifetime Jobs." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_931128.pdf
1993. Pollack, Andrew, "Shock in a Land of Lifetime Jobs: 35 Managers Dismissed in Japan." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_930109.pdf
1993. Pollack, Andrew, "How Japan Hews to Tradition of Lifetime." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_930426.pdf
1994. Pollack, Andrew, "Think Japan Inc Is Lean and Mean? Step Into This Office." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_940320.pdf
1994. Pollack, Andrew, "Stunning Changes in Japan's Economy." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_941023.pdf
1994. Sanger, David E., "Job-Seeking Women in Japan Finding More Discrimination." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_940527.pdf
1994. Pollack, Andrew, "Japanese Graduates Finding Few Jobs." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_940625.pdf
1995. Pollack, Andrew, "Way Beyond the Balance Sheet: in Japan, the Supernatural Is Often a Business Tool." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_951128.pdf
1995. Kilborn, Peter T., "White Males and Management: Report Finds Prejudices Block Women and Minorities." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_950317b.pdf
1995. Pollack, Andrew, "Japan Inc.'s Dying Bit Players." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_950527.pdf
1996. Pollack, Andrew, "This Way to Peace of Mind: 750 Miles and 88 Stops." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_960320.pdf
1997. Pollack, Andrew, "Opportunity at a Price." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_970708.pdf
1998. WuDunn, Sheryl, "Women's Work in Japan: Serving Tea, Swallowing Insults." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_981101a.pdf
1998. Kristof, Nicholas D., "Shops Closing, Japan Still Asks, 'What Crisis?'." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_980421.pdf
1999. Strom, Stephanie, "In Japan's Economy, From a Lifetime Job to No Job at All." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_990203.pdf
1999. Greenhouse, Stephen, "Running on Empty - So Much Work, So Little Time." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_990905.pdf
1999. Gordon, Andrew, "Scaring the Salaryman Isn't the Japanese Way." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_991030.pdf
2000. French, Howard W., "Japan Wonders What Became of Quality Control." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_000909.pdf
2000. Strom, Stephanie, "In Japan, a Shift in the Culture By Freelancers." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_001116.pdf
2000. French, Howard W., "Women Win a Battle, But Job Bias Still Rules Japan." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_000226.pdf
2000. Sims, Calvin, "Japan's Employers Are Giving Bonuses for Having Babies." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_000530.pdf
2000. Strom, Stephanie, "In Japan, the Golden Years Have Lost Their Glow." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_000216.pdf
2001. French, Howard W., "Diploma at Hand, Japanese Women Find Glass Ceiling Reinforced With Iron." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_010101.pdf
2001. Strom, Stephanie, "Official Japan Does Musical Chairs, and Desks." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_010104.pdf
2001. Strom, Stephanie, "Japan's Ultimate Insider: The Premier's Secretary." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_010626.pdf
2001. Greenhouse, Stephen, "Report Shows Americans Have More "Labor Days"." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_010901.pdf
2002. Brooke, James, "Young People Feel a Chill in Japan's Hiring Season." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_020401.pdf
2002. French, Howard W., "Mom-And-Pop Stores' "Hello" Becomes a Goodbye." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_020426.pdf
2002. French, Howard W., "Teaching Japan's Salarymen to Be Their Own Men." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_021127.pdf
2002. French, Howard W., "Depression Simmers in Japan's Culture of Stoicism: A Stigma Attaching to Those Who Seek Or Give Psychiatric Help." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_020810.pdf
2003. Onishi Norimitsu, "At Long Last, the Salarymen Are Given Their Due." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_030821.pdf
2004. Onishi Norimitsu, "An Aging Island Embraces Japan's Young Dropouts." http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/NYT_040606.pdf