Japan's quiet transformation : social change and civil society in the twenty-first century
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Japan's quiet transformation : social change and civil society in the twenty-first century
（Asia's transformations / edited by Mark Selden）
RoutledgeCurzon, 2004
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Japan's quiet transformation : social change and civil society in the 21st century
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Bibliography: p. [339]-346
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's lost decade' to describe how the phenomenal growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the country was crippled by enormous and ongoing political, economic and social problems. In responding to these unprecedented difficulties, wide-ranging reforms have been adopted including NPO, information disclosure and judicial reform legislation. Controversially, this book argues that such reforms are creating a more robust civil society and demonstrate that Japan is far more dynamic than is generally recognized.
Table of Contents
Part 1 1. The Lost Decade 2. Information Disclosure 3. Building Civil Society: NPOs and Judicial Reform 4. Rogues and Riches 5. Downsizing the Construction State Part 2 6. Bad Blood 7. Dignity Denied 8. Mad Cows and Ocean Cockroaches Part 3 9. Nationalism 10. Social Transformations: Gender, Family, Work and Demographic Trends
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