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Author:   Jeff Kingston
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 17.10cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9781408234518

ISBN 10:   1408234513
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   04 November 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Replaced By:   9781138369610
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Contents   Introduction to the Series Publisher’s Acknowledgements? Chronology Who’s Who Prime Ministers Since 1952 Glossary Map     PART ONE   BACKGROUND   1   INTRODUCTION   2    THE US OCCUPATION OF JAPAN, 1945-52 Enemies to Allies What Went Wrong? Democratization The Reverse Course The Legacies of Occupation Hiroshima and Pearl Harbour   PART TWO ANALYSIS   3   POSTWAR POLITICS The 1955 System The Decline of Radicalism Corruption The Shadow Shogun Sagawa Kyubin Political Reform The Changing Logic of Japanese Politics   4   THE ECONOMIC MIRACLE The Development State Favorable Factors Adversarial Trade A Dual Economy Growth as Ideology The Setting Sun   5   JAPAN AND ASIA: PAST AND PRESENT A Lingering Legacy Atonement and War Guilt Textbooks and Masochistic History Comfort Women The Nanking Massacre Contemporary Ties Multilateral Participation The Future   6   JAPANESE SECURITY The US-Japan Alliance The Reactive State Transforming Japan’s Security Posture A Normal Nation North Korea (DPRK) People’s Republic of China Lingering Taboos – Article Nine and the Three Non-Nuclear Principles   7   WOMEN IN JAPAN Divorce Women and Work The Labor Force Periphery Education Low Birth Rate The Birth Control Pill Sexploitation   8   DEMOGRAPHIC TIME BOMB Family-based Elderly care Nursing Care Insurance Pension and Medical Care Solvency Social Consequences Further Reforms? Labor Shortage and Immigration?   9   REQUIEM FOR JAPAN, INC. The Lost Decade The Emperor’s Death The Burst Bubble The Binge Hangover Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth Cult) The Kobe Earthquake Nuclear Mishaps and Misgivings Symbols that Divide Social Mores and Delinquency Discrimination   10 PARADIGM SHIFT A System that Soured The Changing Employment Paradigm The Unraveling Nexus Under Construction     PART THREE ASSESSMENT   11 IN RETROSPECT Transformation?       PART FOUR      DOCUMENTS   1.   THE 1947 CONSTITUTION 2.   JOHN DOWER ON THE US OCCUPATION OF JAPAN 3.   THE TREATY OF MUTUAL COOPERATION AND SECURITY BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE US, 19 JANUARY 1960 4.   CHALMERS JOHNSON ON THE JAPANESE MIRACLE 5.   End of the Miracle: Growing Disparities and Poverty 6.   THE WAR APOLOGY RESOLUTION: THE PRIME MINISTER’S ADDRESS TO THE NATIONAL DIET, 9 JUNE 1995 7.   PRIME MINISTER MURAYAMA’S APOLOGY, 15 AUGUST 1995 8.   REPARATIONS AND RECONCILIATION 9.   KONO STATEMENT ON COMFORT WOMEN 10.   THE NANKING MASSACRE 11.   THE ODA CHARTER 12.   BEYOND THE ASIAN CRISIS: SPEECH BY MR KIICHI MIYAZAWA   13.   ON THE REVISION OF THE US–JAPAN SECURITY TREATY, 1960   14.   JAPAN AND THE VIOLATION OF ITS NON-NUCLEAR PRINCIPLES 15.   SHINTARO ISHIHARA ON JAPAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE US 16.   THE 1997 GUIDELINES FOR US–JAPAN DEFENSE COOPERATION 17.   NIXON ON US RELATIONS WITH JAPAN DURING THE COLD WAR 18.   BECOMING A NORMAL NATION 19.   THE GOVERNMENT’S POSITION ON ARTICLE NINE OF THE CONSTITUTION 20. HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN JAPAN. 21.   THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN IN JAPAN 22.   FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF AN AGING POPULATION 23.   HEALTH CARE COSTS: OECD   24.   IMMIGRATION AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC TIME BOMB 25. JAPAN’S THIRD TRANSFORMATION: PM KEIZO OBUCHI 26. SUICIDE TOLLS REMAINS HIGH  27.   JAPAN’S ‘BIG BANG’ 28.   SOCIAL ORDER IN JAPAN 29.   MULTI-ETHNICITY IN JAPAN 30. AINU RECOGNIZED BY GOVERNMENT 31.   RICHARD KATZ ON THE RISE AND FALL OF JAPAN’S ECONOMIC MIRACLE 32.    CHANGING EMPLOYMENT SYSTEM 33.    INFORMATION DISCLOSURE 34.    LAW SCHOOLS 35.   PARADIGM SHIFT     GUIDE TO FURTHER READING?   REFERENCES   INDEX

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Professor Jeffrey Kingston is Director of Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan. His areas of expertise include the political economy and social history of modern Japan, modern Southeast Asia, regionalism in Asia, conflict and reconciliation, and law and social change. Professor Kingston's op-eds and book reviews appear in the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Japan Times and Bangkok Post. The BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CBS, ABC, Time, Newsweek, AFP, AP, NHK, Asahi Shimbun, Voice of America and other media organizations interview him frequently.

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