Japan : the precarious future - Baldwin, Frank; Allison, Anne, 1950-; NYU Press; Social Science Research Council (U.S.) (New York : New York University Press, 2015)
Introduction : Japan's possible futures / Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison -- Demography as destiny : falling birthrates and the allure of a blended society / Sawako Shirahase -- Precarity and hope : social connectedness in postcapitalist Japan / Anne Allison -- Risk and consequences : the changing Japanese employment paradigm / Machiko Osawa and Jeff Kingston -- The future of gender in Japan : work/life balance and relations between the sexes / Ayako Kano -- After Fukushima : veto players and Japanese nuclear policy / Jacques E.C. Hymans -- Japan's megadisaster challenges : crisis management in the modern era / William J. Siembieda and Haruo Hayashi -- Fiscal survival and financial revival : possible futures for the Japanese economy / Saori N. Katada and Gene Park -- Manufacturing in Japan : factories and national policy / Takahiro Fujimoto with Frank Baldwin -- Integrated solutions to complex problems : transforming Japanese science and technology / Masaru Yarime -- Military cooperation and territorial disputes : the changing face of Japan's security policy / Hiroshi Nakanishi -- Economic and strategic leadership in Asia : the rivalry between China and Japan / Claude Meyer -- Possible futures of political leadership : waiting for a transformational prime minister / Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen -- State power versus individual freedom : Japan's constitutional past, present, and possible futures / Lawrence Repeta and Colin P. A. Jones.
"A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
AAL
Donated by Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation.
Keywords: 2000-2099; National characteristics, Japanese; Economic history; Forecasting; International relations; National characteristics, Japanese; Social conditions; Social sciences; Japan -- Forecasting; Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Japan -- Economic conditions -- 21st century; Japan -- Relations; Japan