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

by JeffKingston (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2004

  $63.48

  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.