Japan's quiet transformation :social change and civil society in the twenty-first century /Jeff Kingston
London ;New York :
RoutledgeCurzon,
2004.
xvi, 358 p. :ill. ;25 cm.
Asia's transformations
مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-346) and index.
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.