Japan : : The Precarious Future / / ed. by Anne Allison, Frank Baldwin.
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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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Possible Futures ;
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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