The emptiness of Japanese affluence

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The emptiness of Japanese affluence

Gavan McCormack ; with a new foreword by Norma Field

(Japan in the modern world)(An East gate book)

M.E. Sharpe, c2001

Rev. ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This work aims to show that Japan even at it's height of success, while the successful version of capitalism was blighted at it's core, being unsustainable. This revised edition features n introduction which gives an analysis of Japan's contemporary crisis.

Table of Contents

  • Tilting Toward the Millennium: Kobe and Beyond
  • 1: Political Economy
  • 1: The Construction State: The Pathology of the Doken Kokka
  • 2: The Leisure State: Work, Rest, and Consumption
  • 3: The Farm State: GATTing Japan
  • 2: Identity
  • 4: The Regional State: Asia and the Dilemmas of National Identity
  • 5: The Peace State:Dilemmas of Power
  • 3: Memory
  • 6: Remembering and Forgetting: The War, 1945-95
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Japan at Century's End

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