1st Edition

The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence

By Gavan McCormack, Norma Field Copyright 2001
    358 Pages
    by Routledge

    358 Pages
    by Routledge

    This work aims to show that Japan even at it's height of success, while the successful version of capitalism was blighted at it's core, being unsustainable. This revised edition features n introduction which gives an analysis of Japan's contemporary crisis.

    Tilting Toward the Millennium: Kobe and Beyond; 1: Political Economy; 1: The Construction State: The Pathology of the Doken Kokka; 2: The Leisure State: Work, Rest, and Consumption; 3: The Farm State: GATTing Japan; 2: Identity; 4: The Regional State: Asia and the Dilemmas of National Identity; 5: The Peace State:Dilemmas of Power; 3: Memory; 6: Remembering and Forgetting: The War, 1945–95; Concluding Remarks; Japan at Century's End

    Biography

    Gavan McCormack, Norma Field