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" A new Japan for the twenty-first century : "
edited by Rien T. Segers.
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1038842
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b793212
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A new Japan for the twenty-first century : : an inside overview of current fundamental changes and problems /\ edited by Rien T. Segers.
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| Publication Statement
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY :: Routledge,, 2008.
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Routledge contemporary Japan series ;; 21
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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0203928016
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: 0415453119
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: 9780203928011
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: 9780415453110
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Popular culture-- Japan.
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Social values-- Japan.
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Economic history.
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HISTORY.
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Politics and government.
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Popular culture.
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Social conditions.
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Social values.
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Japan, Economic conditions, 21st century.
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Japan, Politics and government, 21st century.
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Japan, Social conditions, 21st century.
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Japan.
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| Dewey Classification
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952.05
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HC462.95.N452 2008eb
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Segers, Rien T.
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