Japan : : The Precarious Future /

Japan : : The Precarious Future / / ed. by Anne Allison, Frank Baldwin.

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On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third larges...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Allison, Anne,
Baldwin, Frank,
Fujimoto, Takahiro,
Hayashi, Haruo,
Hymans, Jacques E. C.,
Jones, Colin P. A.,
Kano, Ayako,
Katada, Saori N.,
Kingston, Jeff,
Krauss, Ellis S.,
Meyer, Claude,
Nakanishi, Hiroshi,
Osawa, Machiko,
Park, Gene,
Pekkanen, Robert J.,
Repeta, Lawrence,
Shirahase, Sawako,
Siembieda, William J.,
Yarime, Masaru,
HerausgeberIn:
Allison, Anne,
Baldwin, Frank,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Possible Futures ; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Japan’s Possible Futures
  • 1.Demography as Destiny: Falling Birthrates and the Allure of a Blended Society
  • 2. Precarity and Hope: Social Connectedness in Postcapitalist Japan
  • 3. Risk and Consequences: The Changing Japanese Employment Paradigm
  • 4. The Future of Gender in Japan:Work/Life Balance and Relations between the Sexes
  • 5. After Fukushima: Veto Players and Japanese Nuclear Policy
  • 6. Japan’sMegadisaster Challenges: CrisisManagement in theModern Era
  • 7. Fiscal Survival and Financial Revival: Possible Futures for the Japanese Economy
  • 8. Manufacturing in Japan: Factories and National Policy
  • 9. Integrated Solutions to Complex Problems: Transforming Japanese Science and Technology
  • 10. Military Cooperation and Territorial Disputes: The Changing Face of Japan’s Security Policy
  • 11. Economic and Strategic Leadership in Asia: The Rivalry between China and Japan
  • 12. Possible Futures of Political Leadership: Waiting for a Transformational PrimeMinister
  • 13. State Power versus Individual Freedom: Japan’s Constitutional Past, Present, and Possible Futures
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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