344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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Against the powerful image of Japan as a rising economic superpower, or even, in Ezra Vogel's influential formulation a deade ago, "Japan as number 1", this book explores the fragility, hubris and human and environmental costs of Japan's desperate drive for hyperdevelopment. As this economic superpower finds itself drifting, rudderless, through the decade, four seminal events seem to emblemise the... Read more
Introduction Tilting Toward the Millennium: Kobe and Beyond Part One: Political Economy 1. The Construction State: The Pathology of the DokenKokka 2. The Leisure State: Work, Rest, and Consumption 3. The Farm State: GATTing Japan Part Two: Identity 4. The Regional State: Asia and the Dilemmas of National Identity 5. The Peace State: Dilemmas of Power Part Three: Memory 6. Remembering and Forgetting: The War, 1945—95, Concluding Remarks
Biography
Gavan McCormack
