Kingston, Jeff,  1957- <br/><br/>
Japan's quiet transformation :  social change and civil society in the 21st century / 
Jeff Kingston. 
 - London :  RoutledgeCurzon,  2004. 
 - xvi, 358 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge studies in Asia's transformations. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>The lost decade of the 1990s -- Information disclosure -- Building civil society : NPOs and judicial reform -- Rogues and riches : the bureaucrats' fall from grace -- Downsizing the construction state -- Bad blood : the betrayal and infection of Japan's hemophiliacs -- Dignity denied -- Mad cows and ocean cockroaches -- One hand clapping : currents of nationalism in contemporary Japan -- Social transformations : family, gender, aging, and work -- Conclusion : under construction, Japan's nascent civil society. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415274826 (hardback)  RM578.25 0415274834 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social change--Japan.<br/>Civil society--Japan.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Social conditions--1945-