The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Gavan McCormack, Norma Field

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Norma Field, Gavan McCormack, McCormack Gavan
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2001
• EAN: 9780765607676
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-0767-6
• No. of pages: 358
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Japan, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, Asian History