Japan in transformation, 1945-2010 / Jeff Kingston.
2014
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Author
Title
Japan in transformation, 1945-2010 / Jeff Kingston.
Published
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.
Call Number
DS889 .K546 2014
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9781408234518
Description
xxxii, 189 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)877842973
Note
Orignally published: Harlow, England : Longman, 2011.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-179) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction to the Series
iii
Author's Acknowledgements
ix
Publisher's Acknowledgements
xi
Chronology
xiii
Who's Who
xxi
Prime Ministers Since 1952
xxv
Glossary
xxvii
Map
xxxiii
pt. ONE
BACKGROUND
1
1.
Introduction
3
2.
The Us Occupation of Japan, 1945-52
8
Enemies to Allies
8
What Went Wrong?
9
Democratization
11
The Reverse Course
12
The Legacies of Occupation
13
Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor
16
pt. TWO
ANALYSIS
17
3.
Postwar Politics
19
The 1955 System
20
The Decline of Radicalism
23
Corruption
24
The Shadow Shogun
25
Sagawa Kyubin
26
Political Reform
26
The Changing Logic of Japanese Politics
27
4.
The Economic Miracle
31
The Development State
31
Favourable Factors
32
Adversarial Trade
36
A Dual Economy
37
Growth as Ideology
38
The Setting Sun
38
5.
Japan and Asia: Past and Present
40
A Lingering Legacy
40
Atonement and War Guilt
42
Textbooks and Masochistic History
43
Comfort Women
45
The Nanking Massacre
46
Contemporary Ties
47
Multilateral Participation
48
The Future
49
6.
Japanese Security
51
The United States-Japan Alliance
51
The Reactive State
53
Transforming Japan's Security Posture
54
A Normal Nation
55
North Korea (DPRK)
56
People's Republic of China
57
Lingering Taboos - Article 9 and the Three Non-Nuclear Principles
58
7.
Women in Japan
61
Divorce
62
Women and Work
63
The Labour Force Periphery
64
Education
65
Low Birth Rate
66
The Birth Control Pill
67
Sexploitation
68
8.
Demographic Time-Bomb
71
Family-based Elderly Care
72
Nursing Care Insurance
74
Pension and Medical Care Solvency
75
Social Consequences
76
Further Reforms?
77
Labour Shortage and Immigration?
78
9.
Requiem for Japan, Inc.
81
The Lost Decade
81
The Emperor's Death
81
The Burst Bubble
82
The Binge
85
Hangover
86
Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth Sect)
87
The Kobe Earthquake
89
Nuclear Mishaps and Misgivings
91
Symbols that Divide
92
Social Mores and Delinquency
93
Discrimination
95
10.
PARADIGM SHIFT
98
A System that Soured
99
The Changing Employment Paradigm
100
The Unravelling Nexus
102
Under Construction
106
pt. THREE
ASSESSMENT
109
11.
In Retrospect
111
Transformation?
114
pt. FOUR
DOCUMENTS
117
1.
The 1947 Constitution
118
2.
John Dower on the US Occupation of Japan
121
3.
The treaty of mutual cooperation and security between Japan and the United States, 19 January 1960
122
4.
Chalmers Johnson on the Japanese miracle
125
5.
End of the miracle: growing disparities and poverty
126
6.
The war apology resolution: the Prime Minister's address to the National Diet, 9 June 1995
127
7.
Prime Minister Murayama's apology, 15 August 1995
128
8.
Reparations and reconciliation
130
9.
Kono statement on comfort women
130
10.
The Nanking Massacre
132
11.
The ODA Charter
134
12.
Beyond the Asian crisis: speech by Mr Kiichi Miyazawa on the occasion of the APEC Finance Ministers' Meeting, Langkawi, Malaysia, 15 May 1999
136
13.
On the revision of the United States-Japan security treaty, 1960
138
14.
Secret nuke pact hushed up for decades
139
15.
Shintaro Ishihara on Japan's relationship with the United States
141
16.
The 1997 Guidelines for United States-Japan defense cooperation
141
17.
Nixon on US relations with Japan during the Cold War
144
18.
Becoming a normal nation
145
19.
The government's position on Article 9 of the Constitution
145
20.
Human trafficking in Japan
147
21.
The sexual exploitation of women in Japan
148
22.
Economic consequences of an ageing population
149
23.
Health care costs: OECD
149
24.
Immigration and the demographic time bomb
150
25.
Japan's third transformation: Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi
151
26.
Suicide toll remains high
152
27.
Japan's `Big Bang'
153
28.
Social order in Japan
154
29.
Multi-ethnicity in Japan
156
30.
Ainu recognized by government
157
31.
Richard Katz on the rise and fall of Japan's economic miracle
158
32.
Changing employment system
159
33.
Information disclosure
160
34.
Law schools
161
35.
Paradigm shift
162
Bibliography
165
Index
181