A new Japan for the twenty-first century
Subtitle: an inside overview of current fundamental changes
By: edited by Rien T. Segers.
Contributors: Segers, Rien T.
Series: Routledge contemporary japan series -- 21
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415453110; 9780203928011
Subjects: Social values -- Japan; Popular culture -- Japan; Japan -- Economic conditions -- 21st century; Japan -- Politics and government -- 21st century; Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of contributors; title: Introduction; title: A new Japan in the twenty-first century: introduction to a changing nation / Rien T. Segers; title: Business and technology; title: Japanese banks: the lost decade and new challenges / Nobuyoshi Yamori and Narunto Nishigaki; title: Japan's current and future technological agendas / Taizo Yakushiji; title: Politics, governance and foreign policy; title: Japanese contemporary politics: towards a new interpretation / Takashi Inoguchi; title: Japan as a changing civil society: public philosophy and the three-sector model / Toshihisa Nagasaka; title: Major developments in Japanese foreign policy since the mid-1990's / Kazuo Ogoura; title: Social issues; title: Symptomatic transformations. Japan, the media and cultural globalization / Koichi Iwabuchi; title: Re-identified Japan: cultural turns in television commercials after the 1980's / Shoji Yamada; title: Current changes within the Japanese higher education system: past and future / Yumiko Hada; title: The "class a war criminal" syndrome: changing historical consciousness in present day Japan / Kei Ushimura; title: Beyond the geisha-stereotype: changing images of "new women" in Japanese popular culture / Junko Saeki; title: National identity; title: Japanese religion adrift: a re-examination of "religion" in post-war Japan / Tetsuo Yamaori; title: Japanese religiosity amidst the changing chaos of several forms of nationalism / Yo Hamada; title: In search of a new national identity. An analysis of the national psyche of postwar Japan / Hisashi Owada; title: Conclusions; title: The necessity for a re-interpretation of a changing Japan / Rien T. Segers.