Christian Sautter

France Reflected in Japan Growth or Decline

Where does the formidable Japanese resistance to unemployment come from? How can their persistence be explained when Japan, like all developed countries, is faced with robotization, technological revolutions and, more recently, competition in the form of young populations in neighboring countries? This should give France pause for thought: as starkly contrasted as these two cultures may seem, France and Japan are sister countries. Thus reflected in the mirror of Japan, France can discover that its decline need not be fatal, and that it is up to France to break with a decrepit conservatism and embrace growth. Christian Sautter is the director of studies at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS).

Bernard Frank

Gods and Buddhas in Japan (Work of the Collège de France)

Japanese Buddhism descends directly from the Chinese Buddhist tradition which flourished from the sixth to the eighth centuries.

Sylvaine Trinh

The Japanese Model Does Not Exist

Alain Supiot

Solidarity An Enquiry Into a Legal Principle

A thorough enquiry into the meaning and future of the legal principle of solidarity

Michel Drancourt

The Voluntary Economy The Example of Japan

The Japanese economic success inspires both fascination and irritation abroad. It is high time for the Western world to put feelings aside and to learn from its Eastern partner. M. Drancourt, economist and head of the French Institut de l Entreprise, believes that Japanese success is due to one predominant social trait: willpower.