Table of Contents

Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Joining the Past and Present in Japan / David W. Edgington

Part 1: Economic and Political Systems

2 Japanese Economics: An Interpretative Essay / Keizo Nagatani

3 The Japanese Labour Movement’s Road to the Millennium / Lonny E. Carlile

4 Japan’s High Seas Fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean: Food Security and Foreign Policy / Roger Smith

Part 2: Japan’s Identity and Youth

5 Postwar Japan and Manchuria / Bill Sewell

6 May the Saru River Flow: The Nibutani Dam and the Resurging Tide of the Ainu Identity Movement / Millie Creighton

7 Pop Idols and Gender Contestation / Hiroshi Aoyagi

8 A Century of Juvenile Law in Japan / Stephan M. Salzberg

Part 3: Urban Living and Beauty

9 Japan Ponders the Good Life: Improving the Quality of Japanese Cities / David W. Edgington

10 Museum as Hometown: What Is “Japanese Beauty”? / Joshua S. Mostow

Conclusion

11 Continuity and Change in Japan / David W. Edgington

Contributors

Index

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A critical, multi-disciplinary study of economics, politics, society and culture, this collection of essays examines the concepts of “change” and “continuity” in contemporary Japan.

About the Author

David W. Edgington is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.