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Japan : the precarious future / edited by Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Possible futures seriesPublication details: New York: New York University Press, 2015Description: viii, 352 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781479851454
  • 9781479889389
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4952 23 J355
Contents:
Introduction : Japan's possible futures / Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison -- Demography as destiny : falling birthrates and the allure of a blended society / Sawako Shirahase -- Precarity and hope : social connectedness in postcapitalist Japan / Anne Allison -- Risk and consequences : the changing Japanese employment paradigm / Machiko Osawa and Jeff Kingston -- The future of gender in Japan : work/life balance and relations between the sexes / Ayako Kano -- After Fukushima : veto players and Japanese nuclear policy / Jacques E.C. Hymans -- Japan's megadisaster challenges : crisis management in the modern era / William J. Siembieda and Haruo Hayashi -- Fiscal survival and financial revival : possible futures for the Japanese economy / Saori N. Katada and Gene Park -- Manufacturing in Japan : factories and national policy / Takahiro Fujimoto with Frank Baldwin -- Integrated solutions to complex problems : transforming Japanese science and technology / Masaru Yarime -- Military cooperation and territorial disputes : the changing face of Japan's security policy / Hiroshi Nakanishi -- Economic and strategic leadership in Asia : the rivalry between China and Japan / Claude Meyer -- Possible futures of political leadership : waiting for a transformational prime minister / Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen -- State power versus individual freedom : Japan's constitutional past, present, and possible futures / Lawrence Repeta and Colin P. A. Jones.
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Item type Current library Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Read Japan Project 303.4952 J355 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2015 01 Available G000507
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"A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Japan's possible futures / Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison -- Demography as destiny : falling birthrates and the allure of a blended society / Sawako Shirahase -- Precarity and hope : social connectedness in postcapitalist Japan / Anne Allison -- Risk and consequences : the changing Japanese employment paradigm / Machiko Osawa and Jeff Kingston -- The future of gender in Japan : work/life balance and relations between the sexes / Ayako Kano -- After Fukushima : veto players and Japanese nuclear policy / Jacques E.C. Hymans -- Japan's megadisaster challenges : crisis management in the modern era / William J. Siembieda and Haruo Hayashi -- Fiscal survival and financial revival : possible futures for the Japanese economy / Saori N. Katada and Gene Park -- Manufacturing in Japan : factories and national policy / Takahiro Fujimoto with Frank Baldwin -- Integrated solutions to complex problems : transforming Japanese science and technology / Masaru Yarime -- Military cooperation and territorial disputes : the changing face of Japan's security policy / Hiroshi Nakanishi -- Economic and strategic leadership in Asia : the rivalry between China and Japan / Claude Meyer -- Possible futures of political leadership : waiting for a transformational prime minister / Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen -- State power versus individual freedom : Japan's constitutional past, present, and possible futures / Lawrence Repeta and Colin P. A. Jones.

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