TY - BOOK AU - Kingston,Jeff TI - Japan's quiet transformation: social change and civil society in the 21st century SN - 0415274826 (hardback) PY - 2004/// CY - London PB - RoutledgeCurzon KW - Social change KW - Japan KW - Civil society KW - Social conditions KW - 1945- N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003024595.html. ER -