Rien T. Segers (ed.)

A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century

An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes and Problems
Herausgeber: Segers, Rien T

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an overview of contemporary Japan and the many considerable changes currently taking place in a wide range of fields, including the economy, business and technology, politics, governance and international relations, providing a much needed corrective to misplaced Western views that Japan is unable to change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415453110
• ISBN-10: 0415453119
• Artikelnr.: 25006869

Autorenporträt

Rien T. Segers is Director and Professor at the Center for Contemporary Japanese Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He was previously Visiting Professor at the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, Kyoto (2006-2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. A New Japan in the Twenty-First Century:
Introduction to a Changing Nation Rien T. Segers Part 2: Business and
Technology 2. Japanese Banks: The Lost Decade and New Challenges Nobuyoshi
Yamori and Narunto Nishigaki 3. Japan's Current and Future Technological
Agendas Taizo Yakushiji Part 3: Politics, Governance and Foreign Policy 4.
Japanese Contemporary Politics: Towards a New Interpretation Takashi
Inoguchi 5. Japan as a Changing Civil Society: Public Philosophy and the
Three-Sector Model Toshihisa Nagasaka 6. Major Developments in Japanese
Foreign Policy since the Mid-1990's Kazuo Ogoura Part 4: Social Issues 7.
Symptomatic Transformations. Japan, the Media and Cultural Globalization
Koichi Iwabuchi 8. Re-Identified Japan: Cultural Turns in Television
Commercials after the 1980's Shoji Yamada 9. Current Changes within the
Japanese Higher Education System: Past and Future Yumiko Hada 10. The
'Class A War Criminal' Syndrome: Changing Historical Consciousness in
Present Day Japan Kei Ushimura 11. Beyond the Geisha-Stereotype: Changing
Images of 'New Women' in Japanese Popular Culture Junko Saeki Part 5:
National Identity 12. Japanese Religion Adrift: A Re-Examination of
'Religion' in Post-War Japan Tetsuo Yamaori 13. Japanese Religiosity amidst
the Changing Chaos of Several Forms of Nationalism Yo Hamada 14. In Search
of a New National Identity. An Analysis of the National Psyche of Postwar
Japan Hisashi Owada Part 6: Conclusions 15. The Necessity for a
Re-Interpretation of a Changing Japan Rien T. Segers