State and Society in Post-War Japan

State and Society in Post-War Japan integrates the previous work of disciplinary specialists into a coherent account of how Japanese society has changed since the war. Bernard Eccleston focuses on the way the Japanese state has been managed in the face of unprecedented economic growth rates up to the mid 1970s, and their subsequent slackening in recent times. He examines how political and social processes are organized to reinforce the drive to make Japan the world's number one economy. In assessing the organizing role of the state, full weight is given to the ways in which the state incorporates competing interests by disarming the opposition of groups who have been excluded from the 'benefits' of economic growth. These groups include women, men working outside large firms, racial minorities, outcasts and citizens' protest groups.
Eccleston also raises important questions that are of direct relevance to other industrial societies. In particular, he asks what has been the cost to Japanese society of rapid economic development. Eccleston's answer provides a vital counterbalance to the prevailing tendency to see Japan as a blueprint for ailing Western economies.

List of contents

Abbreviations. Acknowledgements.
1. Conflict or Consensus: Competing Images of Japan.
2. An Economic Structure of Interdependent Rivals.
3. A Flexible Labour Market.
4. A Planned Market Economy.
5. The Japanese Polity.
6. Social Divisions in Japan.
7. Continuity and Change in the Japanese Social Process.
Bibliography.
Index.

About the author

Bernard Eccleston is the author of State and Society in Post-War Japan, published by Wiley.

Summary

State and Society in Post--War Japan integrates the previous work of disciplinary specialists into a coherent account of how Japanese society has changed since the war.

Product details

• Authors: Eccleston, Bernard Eccleston, Bernard (Staff Tutor for the Yorkshire Region of the Open University) Eccleston, Eccleston Bernard, Ecclestone
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.1989
• EAN: 9780745601663
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-0166-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, macroeconomics, Economic history, Politics & government, c 1960 to c 1970, Politics and government, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, C 1945 To C 1960