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

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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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Summary

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.