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"In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They rapidly transformed their political culture-policies, institutions, and public opinion-to create a more equitable, democratic and peaceful society. Post-Fascist Japan explores this phenomenon, focusing on a group of highly educated Japanese - humanists, historians...
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"Containing an Introductory essay, a section on Theories of Japanese politics, and around 250 A-Z entries, the Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan remedies this imbalance and answers the need for an accessible work of reference bringing together information and authoritative analysis on all aspects of the politics of Japan and the Japanese political system." "Written by a leading academic authority and commentator on the domestic and international...
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"In this book, the authors address Japan's economic crisis of the 1990s. They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan's past success with its current problems have been inadequate, primarily because scholars fail to fully understand how Japan's political-economic system was organized and how it operated in the past. Revealing that certain long-term political and economic trends suggested in subtle but unambiguous ways that the crisis of the 1990s...
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Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in...
11) Japan
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Japan is a mature Asian superpower, industrial and technical growth center of Asia, and a G-8 nation with strong Western ties.
13) Japan today
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From the Publisher: Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products-from animated movies and computer games to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques-are consumed around the world. In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it remains something of an enigma to many, who see it as a confusing...
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In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan's 1853 "opening" to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and the Meiji Restoration's reforms. This book looks through...
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"This book presents a detailed analysis of the national structure (Kokutai) and economic world (Keizai-kai) of Japan from three different perspectives: Internal development; international relations; developments in the post-Cold War era." "Dr. Cheung traces the historical background of the economy as well as Japan's political role in Asia and the rest of the world, providing a rich and widely accessible examination of the subject that will prove useful...
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"Japan's deepening economic crisis is fundamentally a political crisis. Economic reform is crucial to the recovery of the Japanese economy, yet the political system is not delivering the necessary reforms. The Koizumi Administration has enjoyed most of the political conditions identified as conducive to economic reform. Why then, has the Koizumi revolution failed? Aurelia George Mulgan provides an up-to-the-minute account of the politics of economic...
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