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Japan : The Precarious Future /
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world's th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2015
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| Colección: | Possible futures series.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Japan's possible futures / Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison
- 1. Demography as destiny : falling birthrates and the allure of a blended society / Sawako Shirahase
- 2. Precarity and hope : social connectedness in postcapitalist Japan / Anne Allison
- 3. Risk and consequences : the changing Japanese employment paradigm / Machiko Osawa and Jeff Kingston
- 4. The future of gender in Japan : work/life balance and relations between the sexes / Ayako Kano
- 5. After Fukushima : veto players and Japanese nuclear policy / Jacques E. C. Hymans
- 6. Japan's megadisaster challenges : crisis management in the modern era / William J. Siembieda and Haruo Hayashi
- 7. Fiscal survival and financial revival : possible futures for the Japanese economy / Saori N. Katada and Gene Park
- 8. Manufacturing in Japan : factories and national policy / Takahiro Fujimoto with Frank Baldwin
- 9. Integrated solutions to complex problems : transforming Japanese science and technology / Masaru Yarime
- 10. Military cooperation and territorial disputes : the changing face of Japan's security policy / Hiroshi Nakanishi
- 11. Economic and strategic leadership in Asia : the rivalry between China and Japan / Claude Meyer
- 12. Possible futures of political leadership : waiting for a transformational prime minister / Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen
- 13. State power versus individual freedom : Japan's constitutional past, present, and possible futures / Lawrence Repeta and Colin P. A. Jones.