social change and civil society in the twenty-first century /
Jeff Kingston.
New York :
RoutledgeCurzon,
2004.
xvi, 358 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm.
Asia's transformations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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During the 1990s Japan's phenomenal economic growth ground to a halt and the country was crippled by ongoing political, economic and social problems. In this book, the author argues that when Japan emerges from these manifold problems it may well be an even stronger society than before.