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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part40.utf8:223671056:3040
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 03040cam a2200337 i 4500
001 2013020891
003 DLC
005 20150721081525.0
008 130830s2013 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013020891
020 $a9780415857444 (hbk)
020 $a9780415857451 (pbk)
020 $z9780203797594 (ebk)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $aa-ja---
050 00 $aDS891$b.C75 2014
082 00 $a320.60952$223
245 00 $aCritical issues in contemporary Japan /$cedited by Jeff Kingston.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$c2014.
300 $axv, 309 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart I. Political environment -- Japanese politics: mainstream or exotic? / Arthur Stockwin -- The politics of trade policy aurelia / George Mulgan -- Limiting fundamental rights protection in Japan: the role of the Supreme Court / Lawrence Repeta -- Civil society: past, present, and future / Akihiro Ogawa -- Japan's contemporary media / David McNeill -- Part II. Nuclear and renewable energy -- Revisiting the limits of flexible and adaptive institutions: the Japanese government's role in nuclear power plant siting over the post-war period / Daniel P. Aldrich -- Who controls whom?: constraints, challenges and rival policy images in Japan's post-war energy restructuring / Paul Scalise -- Japan's nuclear village: power and resilience / Jeff Kingston -- Japan's renewable power prospects / Andrew DeWit -- Part III. International dynamics -- Bad war or good war?: history and politics in postwar Japan / Sven Saaler -- Territorial disputes with Korea and China: small islets, enduring conflicts / Mark Selden -- An inconvenient truce: domestic politics and the Russo-Japanese northern territories dispute / Tina Burrett -- Okinawa today: spotlight on Henoko / Alexis Dudden -- Part IV. Social dilemmas -- Demographic dilemmas, women and immigration / Jeff Kingston -- Reproductive rights in Japan: where do women stand? / Tin Tin Htun -- Hiding in plain sight: minority issues in Japan / Kyle Cleveland -- Mental health and therapy in Japan: conceptions, practices, and challenges / Sachiko Horiguchi -- Violence in schools: tensions between "The individual" and "The group" in the Japanese education system / Robert Aspinall -- Hidden behind Tokyo: observations on the rest of Japan / John Mock -- Part V. Reforming Japan? -- Seeking to change Japanese society through legal reform / Matthew J. Wilson -- Parochialism: Japan's failure to internationalize / Robert Dujarric and Ayumi Takenaka -- What's behind what ails Japan / David Leheny.
651 0 $aJapan$xPolitics and government$y1989-
651 0 $aJapan$xSocial conditions$y1989-
651 0 $aJapan$xEconomic conditions$y1989-
651 0 $aJapan$xForeign relations.
700 1 $aKingston, Jeff,$d1957-$eeditor of compilation.