Japan's quiet transformation
Subtitle: social change and civil society in the 21st century
By: by Jeff Kingston.
Series: Routledge studies in Asia's transformations
Publisher: Routledge; RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Social change -- Japan; Civil society -- Japan; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The lost decade of the 1990s; title: Information disclosure; title: Building civil society : NPOs and judicial reform; title: Rogues and riches : the bureaucrats' fall from grace; title: Downsizing the construction state; title: Bad blood : the betrayal and infection of Japan's hemophiliacs; title: Dignity denied; title: Mad cows and ocean cockroaches; title: One hand clapping : currents of nationalism in contemporary Japan; title: Social transformations : family, gender, aging, and work; title: Conclusion : under construction, Japan's nascent civil society.