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9781563247125

The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence

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  • ISBN13:

    9781563247125

  • ISBN10:

    1563247127

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-02-01
  • Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc

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"A mole's-eye view of the 'real' Japan. ...It is vivid and often instructive. ... (The author's) diagnosis of what ails modern Japan is perceptive and wide-ranging, well documented with ample reference to Japanese sources and above all timely". -- The London Times "A forward-looking critique of Japanese economism. ... A valuable guide to the variety of current Japanese views on issues of peace, power and environment". -- Japan Times

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
vii
Note on Japanese Names ix
Yen-Dollar Exchange Rate xi
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction Tilting Toward the Millennium: Kobe and Beyond 3(22)
Part One: Political Economy
The Construction State: The Pathology of the Doken Kokka
25(53)
The Leisure State: Work, Rest, and Consumption
78(35)
The Farm State: GATTing Japan
113(40)
Part Two: Identity
The Regional State: Asia and the Dilemmas of National Identity
153(32)
The Peace State: Dilemmas of Power
185(40)
Part Three: Memory
Remembering and Forgetting: The War, 1945--95
225(74)
Concluding Remarks
Japan at Century's End
287(12)
Index 299

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