Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty 9780824838706

What are people’s life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to und

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Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
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Japanese security, economic, institutional, and developmental policies have undergone a remarkable evolution in the 70 y

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Every day presents new challenges as the face of global economics changes. But in a world of uncertainty, how is the wor

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This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies

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By 2030, over 30% of the Japanese population will be 65 or older, foreshadowing the demographic changes occurring elsewh

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Why are filmmakers such as J.J. Abrams, Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino continuing to shoot their movies on cell

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Drawing on interviews with prominent bureaucratic, business, and political actors, Frances McCall Rosenbluth provides th

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First published in 2000. This book aims to study the shifting identity of Japanese returnees(kikokushijo) within a migra

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The challenge of the Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s has placed pressure on the Japanese economy to change, caus

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Are the works of contemporary Japanese novelists, as Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo has observed, "mere reflection

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