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Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the 21st Century (Asia's Transformations)

By Jeff Kingston

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0415274834
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13379950 bytes)
Pages
384\375
Topic
Other Social Sciences
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's lost decade' to describe how the phenomenal growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the country was crippled by enormous and ongoing political, economic and social problems. In responding to these unprecedented difficulties, wide-ranging reforms have been adopted including NPO, information disclosure and judicial reform legislation. Controversially, this book argues that such reforms are creating a more robust civil society and demonstrate that Japan is far more dynamic than is generally recognized.

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