The Emptiness of Affluence in Japan

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Gavan McCormack

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Norma Field, G. McCormack, Gavan McCormack
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781563247118
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-711-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Weight: 453 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries