D. Hugh Whittaker is Professor in the Economy and Business of Japan at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, and author of the recent book Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation.Yoshifumi Nakata is Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management and Director of the Research Institute of STEM at Doshisha University. His research focuses on the relation between work environment and engineers’ performance.

• Preface Introduction: reforming Japanese capitalism 1. Has Japan’s corporate governance reform reached a turning point? Some cautionary notes 2. Japan’s quest for a sustainable, virtuous circle of growth and innovation 3. Society 5.0 and new capitalism: complementarities and contradictions 4. The transformation of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in Japan 5. Japan’s triple sustainability challenge 6. Evidence-based policy making in Japan’s public expenditure: compatibility of fiscal health and investing for the future 7. Much to be done in Japan’s family and gender equality policies 8. Can affirmative action overcome STEM gender inequality in Japan? Expectations and concerns 9. Remedying Japan’s deficient investment in people 10. The ‘new trinity’ reform of labour markets in Japan 11. Japan’s ‘consensual’ variety of digital capitalism and its global relevance

D. Hugh Whittaker is Professor in the Economy and Business of Japan at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, and author of the recent book Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation.Yoshifumi Nakata is Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management and Director of the Research Institute of STEM at Doshisha University. His research focuses on the relation between work environment and engineers’ performance.

• Preface Introduction: reforming Japanese capitalism 1. Has Japan’s corporate governance reform reached a turning point? Some cautionary notes 2. Japan’s quest for a sustainable, virtuous circle of growth and innovation 3. Society 5.0 and new capitalism: complementarities and contradictions 4. The transformation of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in Japan 5. Japan’s triple sustainability challenge 6. Evidence-based policy making in Japan’s public expenditure: compatibility of fiscal health and investing for the future 7. Much to be done in Japan’s family and gender equality policies 8. Can affirmative action overcome STEM gender inequality in Japan? Expectations and concerns 9. Remedying Japan’s deficient investment in people 10. The ‘new trinity’ reform of labour markets in Japan 11. Japan’s ‘consensual’ variety of digital capitalism and its global relevance

D. Hugh Whittaker is Professor in the Economy and Business of Japan at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, and author of the recent book Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation.Yoshifumi Nakata is Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management and Director of the Research Institute of STEM at Doshisha University. His research focuses on the relation between work environment and engineers’ performance.

• Preface Introduction: reforming Japanese capitalism 1. Has Japan’s corporate governance reform reached a turning point? Some cautionary notes 2. Japan’s quest for a sustainable, virtuous circle of growth and innovation 3. Society 5.0 and new capitalism: complementarities and contradictions 4. The transformation of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in Japan 5. Japan’s triple sustainability challenge 6. Evidence-based policy making in Japan’s public expenditure: compatibility of fiscal health and investing for the future 7. Much to be done in Japan’s family and gender equality policies 8. Can affirmative action overcome STEM gender inequality in Japan? Expectations and concerns 9. Remedying Japan’s deficient investment in people 10. The ‘new trinity’ reform of labour markets in Japan 11. Japan’s ‘consensual’ variety of digital capitalism and its global relevance