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