Japan's quiet transformation : social change and civil society in the twenty-first century
by
 
Kingston, Jeff, 1957-

Title
: 
Japan's quiet transformation : social change and civil society in the twenty-first century

Author
: 
Kingston, Jeff, 1957-

ISBN
: 
9780415274838
 
9780415274821

Personal Author
: 
Kingston, Jeff, 1957-

Publication Information
: 
London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

Physical Description
: 
xvi, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series
: 
Routledge studies in Asia's transformations

Series Title
: 
Routledge studies in Asia's transformations

Contents
: 
The lost decade of the 1990s -- Information disclosure -- Building civil society : NPOs and judicial reform -- Rogues and riches : the bureaucrats' fall from grace -- Downsizing the construction state -- Bad blood : the betrayal and infection of Japan's hemophiliacs -- Dignity denied -- Mad cows and ocean cockroaches -- One hand clapping : currents of nationalism in contemporary Japan -- Social transformations : family, gender, aging, and work -- Conclusion : under construction, Japan's nascent civil society.

Subject Term
: 
Social change -- Japan.
 
Civil society -- Japan.

Geographic Term
: 
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-


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