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 note = {List of illustrations
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface

PART I Introduction

1 A new Japan in the twenty-first century : introduction to a changing nation / Rien T. SEGERS

PART II Business and technology

2 Japanese banks : the lost decade and new challenges / YAMORI Nobuyoshi ; NISHIGAKI Narunto
3 Japan's current and future technological agendas / YAKUSHIJI Taizo

PART III Politics, governance and foreign policy

4 Japanese contemporary politics : towards a new interpretation / INOGUCHI Takashi
5 Japan as a changing civil society : public philosophy and the three-sector model / NAGASAKA Toshihisa
6 Major developments in Japanese foreign policy since the mid-1990s / OGOURA Kazuo

PART IV Social issues

7 Symptomatic transformations : Japan in the media and cultural globalization / IWABUCHI Koichi
8 Reidentified Japan : cultural turns in television commercials after the 1980s / YAMADA Shoji
9 Current changes within the Japanese higher education system : past and future / HADA Yumiko
10 The 'class A war criminal' syndrome : changing historical consciousness in present-day Japan / USHIMURA Kei
11 Beyond the geisha stereotype : changing images of 'new women' in Japanese popular culture / SAEKI Junko

PART V National identity

12 Japanese religion adrift : a re-examination of 'religion' in post-war Japan / YAMAORI Tetsuo
13 Japanese religiosity amid the changing chaos of several forms of nationalism / HAMADA Yo
14 In search of a new national identity : an analysis of the national psyche of post-war Japan / OWADA Hisashi

PART VI Conclusions

15 Conclusions : the necessity for a reinterpretation of a changing Japan / Rien T. SEGERS

Index},
 publisher = {Routledge},
 title = {A NEW JAPAN FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY : An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes and Problems}
}