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| List of Figures, Tables, Boxes and Maps | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Map of Japan | |
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| Introduction: Themes and Debates | |
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| The mainstream perspective | |
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| The revisionist approach | |
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| The culturalist perspective | |
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| The country and its people | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Historical Background | |
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| The Tokugawa period (1603-1868) | |
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| The Meiji period (1868-1912) | |
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| Taisho democracy | |
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| Imperialism, militarism and war | |
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| The American Occupation | |
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| The Changing Political Economy | |
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| The Occupation and after | |
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| Consolidating growth | |
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| Savings | |
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| The developmental state? | |
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| The structure of Japanese business | |
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| Busts and booms | |
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| Accounting for the end of the 'miracle' | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Social Structure and Social Policy | |
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| Cultural characteristics | |
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| Family structure | |
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| The urban-rural divide | |
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| Women | |
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| Minorities | |
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| Immigration | |
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| Religions | |
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| Health and demography | |
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| Welfare | |
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| Class and inequality | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Governing Structures | |
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| Electoral system | |
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| The prime minister | |
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| The cabinet and the ministries | |
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| Local government | |
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| The judiciary | |
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| Bureaucracy and the bureaucratic-dominance debate | |
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| The policy process | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Political Society: Parties and Opposition | |
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| The nature of the LDP | |
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| Accounting for LDP dominance | |
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| The high cost of electoral politics | |
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| The politics of construction | |
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| Reforming party funding | |
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| Opposition parties: fragmentation and the quest for credibility | |
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| Other opposition parties | |
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| The labour movement | |
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| The end of LDP rule in 1993 | |
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| Why did the LDP lose power? | |
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| Changes in domestic politics and political economy | |
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| Japanese politics after 1993: the second party system | |
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| An emerging two-party system? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Socialization and Civil Society | |
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| Sources of socialization and social control | |
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| Policing and the criminal justice system | |
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| Forms of social organization and participation | |
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| Contrasting perspectives on Japanese civil society | |
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| Japan's External Relations | |
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| Japan's self-defence forces and the US-Japan alliance | |
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| Japan and Asia | |
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| Japan and China | |
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| Japan and North Korea | |
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| Aid policy | |
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| Trade and investment | |
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| Internationalization | |
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| Other key relationships | |
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| Japan and the war on terrorism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Interpreting Japan | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Japan on the Internet | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |