Japanese Industry in the American South is an anthropological case study that describes whole industrial cultures found in three Japanese industrial plants in the American South. This book searches for answers to these questions: Why are Japanese industries coming to the American South? To what extent does Japan industrial management in the American South replicate the industrial relations model used in the home plants in Japan? What are the reactions of Americans toward the Japanese expatriates? At the same time, the book looks at the profound impact that the Japanese have had on Southerners.

Choong Soon Kim is University Faculty Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee at Martin.

Introduction; Chapter 1 The South and Selling of the South; Chapter 2 Southern Incentives and Japanese Investment; Chapter 3 Myth and Reality of Japanese Industry in the South; Chapter 4 Industrial Relations of Japanese Industry; Chapter 5 Response of Southerners to the Japanese Challenges; Chapter 6 The Ethnographer's View of Japanese Industry in the South;