A new Japan for the twenty-first century : an inside overview of current fundamental changes and problems / Rien T. Segers, editor
- Bib ID:
- 4367816
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008
- xvi, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780415453110
- 0415453119
- 9780203928011
- 0203928016
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 21.
- Summary:
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"In this book a range of senior experts from inside Japan outline the many considerable changes currently taking place in a wide range of fields, including the economy, business and technology, politics, governance and international relations, and a wide range of social issues - the media, the position of women, nationalism and national consciousness, and religion. Overall, the book provides a corrective to misplaced Western and Eastern views; it aims to redirect stereotyped thinking about contemporary Japan inside as well as outside the country. In addition, it gives a summary overview of contemporary Japan, its current changes and problems - in short, the inside story of the second strongest national economy in the world, which is in the process of fundamental re-engineering and which will continue to have a huge impact globally in the future."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- List of contributors
- Introduction
- A new Japan in the twenty-first century: introduction to a changing nation / Rien T. Segers
- Business and technology
- Japanese banks: the lost decade and new challenges / Nobuyoshi Yamori and Narunto Nishigaki
- Japan's current and future technological agendas / Taizo Yakushiji
- Politics, governance and foreign policy
- Japanese contemporary politics: towards a new interpretation / Takashi Inoguchi
- Japan as a changing civil society: public philosophy and the three-sector model / Toshihisa Nagasaka
- Major developments in Japanese foreign policy since the mid-1990's / Kazuo Ogoura
- Social issues
- Symptomatic transformations. Japan, the media and cultural globalization / Koichi Iwabuchi
- Re-identified Japan: cultural turns in television commercials after the 1980's / Shoji Yamada
- Current changes within the Japanese higher education system: past and future / Yumiko Hada
- The "class a war criminal" syndrome: changing historical consciousness in present day Japan / Kei Ushimura
- Beyond the geisha-stereotype: changing images of "new women" in Japanese popular culture / Junko Saeki
- National identity
- Japanese religion adrift: a re-examination of "religion" in post-war Japan / Tetsuo Yamaori
- Japanese religiosity amidst the changing chaos of several forms of nationalism / Yo Hamada
- In search of a new national identity. An analysis of the national psyche of postwar Japan / Hisashi Owada
- Conclusions
- The necessity for a re-interpretation of a changing Japan / Rien T. Segers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Segers, Rien T
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2008
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