A new Japan in the twenty-first century: introduction to a changing nation / Rien T. Segers -- Japanese banks: the lost decade and new challenges / Nobuyoshi Yamori and Narunto Nishigaki -- Japan's current and future technological agendas / Taizo Yakushiji -- Japanese contemporary politics: towards a new interpretation / Takashi Inoguchi -- Japan as a changing civil society: public philosophy and the three-sector model / Toshihisa Nagasaka -- Major developments in Japanese foreign policy since the mid-1990's / Kazuo Ogoura -- Symptomatic transformations: Japan in the media and cultural globalization / Koichi Iwabuchi -- Reidentified Japan: cultural turns in television commercials after the 1980's / Shoji Yamada -- Current changes within the Japanese higher education system: past and future / Yumiko Hada -- The 'class A war criminal' syndrome: changing historical consciousness in present-day Japan / Kei Ushimura -- Beyond the geisha stereotype: changing images of 'new women' in Japanese popular culture / Junko Saeki -- Japanese religion adrift: a re-examination of 'religion' in post-war Japan / Tetsuo Yamaori -- Japanese religiosity amid the changing chaos of several forms of nationalism / Yo Hamada -- In search of a new national identity: an analysis of the national psyche of post-war Japan / Hisashi Owada -- Conclusions : the necessity for a reinterpretation of a changing Japan / Rien T. Segers.
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