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Tadelloses Ex. - Contents -- Preface 1 -- Gy�rgy Sz� and Ute Sz� -- I Welcoming Addresses 3 -- The Japanese Consul General, Hamburg 5 -- Seisuke Narumiya -- The President of the German JSPS-Club 7 -- Heinrich Menkhaus -- The President of the Association of German-Japanese Societies 9 -- Ruprecht Vondran -- The Director of the Volkshochschule, City of Osnabr�ck 11 -- Carl-Heinrich B�sling -- II Introduction 13 -- 1 Quality of Life and Working Life in Comparison 15 -- Gy�rgy Sz� -- 2 Increasing Resource Productivity: A Win-Win Strategy to Protect 39 -- Resources, Climate and Jobs? -- Peter Hennicke -- III The Political and Legal Frameworks 55 -- 3 The Changing Institutional Framework for Local Democracy in Japan 57 -- Carmen Schmidt -- 4 Problems with the Municipal Mergers in the Kiso (Nagano) Area 71 -- Takashi Namba VI Table of Contents -- 5 Militarization in Japan and Germany 87 -- Etichi Kido -- 6 The Global Conference on Article 9 to Abolish War in Japan 95 -- Yasuko Ishikawa -- 7 Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik and the Conference on Security and 101 -- Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) -- Tetsuji Senoo -- IV The Economic Dimension and the Environment 107 -- 8 What is Important in a Job? Work Values amongst Entrants 109 -- to the Labour Market in Germany and Japan since the 1980s -- Carola Hommerich -- 9 Institutional and Cultural Influences on Employment Behaviour 129 -- of Elderly People in Germany and Japan -- Carolina Paulsen -- 10 Concepts of Labour-Related Words in German and Japanese: 151 -- Comparing Lexical Semantics -- Yoshinori Nishijima -- 11 Are Services a Remedy for Labour Market Problems? 165 -- Empirical Trends of the Service Sectors in Germany and Japan -- Detlev Ehrig and Uwe Staroske -- 12 Japan and Europe at the Resource-Efficiency Frontier 183 -- Raimund Bleischwitz and Bettina Bahn-Walkowiak -- 13 The Role of Carbon-contained Materials in a Sustainable Society 197 -- Takanori Hayashi -- 14 Challenges for a Sustainable Society on the Municipal Level 205 -- Shuji Yamada -- 15 Beyond Ethnocentric Beliefs: Distinctions and Similarities 219 -- between Japanese and German Concepts of Architectural Quality -- Thomas Hackenfort ISBN 9783631586334