Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s

Series Editor’s Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Part I Introduction.

1 Transformations After World War II.

2 The Lost Decade.

Part II Risk and Consequences.

3 Defusing the Demographic Time Bomb.

4 Families at Risk.

5 Jobs at Risk.

Part III Politics and Consequences.

6 Contemporary Politics.

7 Security and the Peace Constitution.

8 Environmental Issues.

9 Immigration.

10 War Memory and Responsibility.

Part IV Institutions at Risk.

11 The Imperial Family.

12 Yakuza.

Part V Postscript.

13 Prospects.

Glossary.

Notes.

Further Reading.

Index.