1st Edition
A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes and Problems
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
Biography
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).
