A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century: An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes (Routledge Contemporary Japan)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 11
Tables......Page 12
Contributors......Page 13
Preface: The background to this book......Page 15
Part I Introduction......Page 18
1 A new Japan in the twenty-first century: Introduction to a changing nation......Page 20
Part II Business and technology......Page 50
2 Japanese banks: The lost decade and new challenges......Page 52
3 Japan’s current and future technological agendas......Page 72
PART III Politics, governance and foreign policy......Page 82
4 Japanese contemporary politics: Towards a new interpretation......Page 84
5 Japan as a changing civil society: Public philosophy and the three-sector model......Page 104
6 Major developments in Japanese foreign policy since the mid-1990s......Page 129
Part IV Social issues......Page 140
7 Symptomatic transformations: Japan in the media and cultural globalization......Page 142
8 Reidentified Japan: Cultural turns in television commercials after the 1980s......Page 158
9 Current changes within the Japanese higher education system: Past and future......Page 174
10 The ‘class A war criminal’ syndrome: Changing historical consciousness in present-day Japan......Page 193
11 Beyond the geisha stereotype: Changing images of ‘new women’ in Japanese popular culture......Page 204
Part V National identity......Page 216
12 Japanese religion adrift: A re-examination of ‘religion’ in post-war Japan......Page 218
13 Japanese religiosity amid the changing chaos of several forms of nationalism......Page 236
14 In search of a new national identity: An analysis of the national psyche of post-war Japan......Page 251
Part VI Conclusions......Page 268
15 Conclusions: The necessity for a reinterpretation of a changing Japan......Page 270
Index......Page 288