Japan's quiet transformation : social change and civil society in the twenty-first century /
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| Author / Creator: | Kingston, Jeff, 1957- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. |
| Description: | xvi, 358 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asia's transformations |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5538016 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part I
- 1. The Lost Decade of the 1990s
- 2. Information Disclosure
- 3. Building Civil Society: NPOs and judicial reform
- 4. Rogues and Riches: The bureaucrats' fall from grace
- 5. Downsizing the Construction State
- Part II
- 6. Bad Blood: The betrayal and infection of Japan's hemophiliacs
- 7. Dignity Denied
- 8. Mad Cows and Ocean Cockroaches
- Part III.
- 9. One Hand Clapping: Currents of nationalism in contemporary Japan
- 10. Social Transformation: Family, gender, ageing and work
- Conclusion - Under Construction: Japan's nascent civil society
- Glossary
- Bibliography
