Japan's quiet transformation : social change and civil society in the 21st century - Kingston, Jeff, 1957- (London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004)
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Social change -- Japan; Civil society -- Japan; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-