Quality of Life and Working Life in Comparison / Arbeit, Bildung und Gesellschaft / Labour, Education and Society Bd.19

Contents: György Széll/Ute Széll: Preface - György Széll: Quality of Life and Working Life in Comparison - Peter Hennicke: Increasing Resource Productivity: A Win-Win Strategy to Protect Resources, Climate and Jobs? - Carmen Schmidt: The Changing Institutional Framework for Local Democracy in Japan - Takashi Namba: Problems with the Municipal Mergers in the Kiso (Nagano) Area - Eiichi Kido: Militarization in Japan and Germany - Yasuko Ishikawa: The Global Conference on Article 9 to Abolish War in Japan - Tetsuji Senoo: Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) - Carola Hommerich: What is Important in a Job? Work Values amongst Entrants to the Labour Market in Germany and Japan since the 1980s - Carolina Paulsen: Institutional and Cultural Influences on Employment Behaviour of Elderly People in Germany and Japan - Yoshinori Nishijima: Concepts of Labour-Related Words in German and Japanese: Comparing Lexical Semantics - Detlev Ehrig/Uwe Staroske: Are Services a Remedy for Labour Market Problems? Empirical Trends of the Service Sectors in Germany and Japan - Raimund Bleischwitz/Bettina Bahn-Walkowiak: Japan and Europe at the Resource-Efficiency Frontier - Takanori Hayashi: The Role of Carbon-contained Materials in a Sustainable Society - Shuji Yamada: Challenges for a Sustainable Society on the Municipal Level - Thomas Hackenfort: Beyond Ethnocentric Beliefs: Distinctions and Similarities between Japanese and German Concepts of Architectural Quality - Mototaka Mori: Imagining and Imagineering Tokyo: Asking with and to the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2016 - Yuichiro Minami: Comparison of the Agents in the City Formation in East and West: A Supplement to Max Weber's Typology of Cities - Helmut Gross: Revisited: Toynbee on China and Japan versus the West (1600-1995) - Helmut Loiskandl: 'Quality of Life' and Christianity in Japan: Notes on some Aspects of Cultural Globalization - Paul G. Schmitz: Concepts of Love and Life

The Editors: György Széll, Prof. em. Dr. sc. pol., is the Director of the Japan Research Centre at the University of Osnabrück (Germany). He was Vicepresident of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences, and is fellow of the EU Institute in Japan, Tokyo Consortium.
Ute Széll, doctorate in literature and history, is a fellow at the Institute for the Cultural History of Early Modern Times at the University of Osnabrück.