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A new Japan for the twenty-first century :

0203928016

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9780203928011

9780415453110

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A new Japan for the twenty-first century :

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an inside overview of current fundamental changes and problems /

edited by Rien T. Segers.

New York, NY :

Routledge,

2008.

1 online resource (1 volume)

Routledge contemporary Japan series ;

21

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of contributors -- Introduction -- A new Japan in the twenty-first century: introduction to a changing nation / Rien T. Segers -- Business and technology -- Japanese banks: the lost decade and new challenges / Nobuyoshi Yamori and Narunto Nishigaki -- Japan's current and future technological agendas / Taizo Yakushiji -- Politics, governance and foreign policy -- Japanese contemporary politics: towards a new interpretation / Takashi Inoguchi -- Japan as a changing civil society: public philosophy and the three-sector model / Toshihisa Nagasaka -- Major developments in Japanese foreign policy since the mid-1990's / Kazuo Ogoura -- Social issues -- Symptomatic transformations. Japan, the media and cultural globalization / Koichi Iwabuchi -- Re-identified Japan: cultural turns in television commercials after the 1980's / Shoji Yamada -- Current changes within the Japanese higher education system: past and future / Yumiko Hada -- The "class a war criminal" syndrome: changing historical consciousness in present day Japan / Kei Ushimura -- Beyond the geisha-stereotype: changing images of "new women" in Japanese popular culture / Junko Saeki -- National identity -- Japanese religion adrift: a re-examination of "religion" in post-war Japan / Tetsuo Yamaori -- Japanese religiosity amidst the changing chaos of several forms of nationalism / Yo Hamada -- In search of a new national identity. An analysis of the national psyche of postwar Japan / Hisashi Owada -- Conclusions -- The necessity for a re-interpretation of a changing Japan / Rien T. Segers.

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This book provides an overview of contemporary Japan and the many considerable changes currently taking place in a wide range of fields, including the economy, business and technology, politics, governance and international relations, providing a much needed corrective to misplaced Western views that Japan is unable to change.

New Japan for the twenty-first century.

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Popular culture-- Japan.

Social values-- Japan.

Economic history.

HISTORY.

Politics and government.

Popular culture.

Social conditions.

Social values.

Japan, Economic conditions, 21st century.

Japan, Politics and government, 21st century.

Japan, Social conditions, 21st century.

Japan.

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