Japan: The Burden of Success

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	2002/374 pages/LC: 2002017818 Sorry. Ebook unavailable.

In the tradition of French scholarship—which rejects a narrowly focused approach—the book encompasses all aspects of the transformation that raised Japan from the ashes of defeat after World War II to the status of an economic model. Bouissou closely relates economic growth to political and social upheaval, tracing changes in the Japanese value system, culture, and way of life. His provocative analysis, with its emphasis on social dislocation rather than the much discussed Japanese predilection for social harmony, is a major contribution to any exploration of Japan's position in the current global environment.

• JAPAN IN 1945: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND.
• Japan: State and Nation.
• The First Japanese Miracle, 1868-1931.
• Japan Under Military Control, 1931-1945.
• THE OCCUPATION: DEMOCRATIZATION WITHIN LIMITS.
• Punishment Plans Cut Short.
• Democratization.
• Reforms and Social Change.
• Political Change.
• The End of the Occupation.
• Laying the Foundations of the Miracle, 1952-1962.
• Politics: Confrontation and Stabilization.
• The Economy: Foundations Laid for the Miracle.
• Social Conditions in the Growth Period.
• New Ways of Thinking?
• Foreign Policy: Japan Returns to the International Scene.
• THE GREAT BOOM AND ITS OTHER SIDE, 1962-1972.
• The Decade of the Economic Miracle.
• The Other Side of the Miracle.
• New Struggles.
• Parties and the Political System in a Time of Change.
• Pressure Groups in the Political System: Corporatist Trends.
• Foreign Policy.
• The End of the Sato Government, July 1972.
• A SHOCK-ABSORBER ECONOMY, 1972-1980.
• A Nation in Crisis, 1972-1976.
• Economic Recovery.
• The Conservative Comeback, 1977-1980.
• An Impotent Opposition.
• Conservative Trends in Society.
• Foreign Policy.
• THE DILEMMAS OF POWER, 1980-1992.
• After the Conservative Monopoly: Blockages and Challenges to the System.
• The Economy: Explosion of Power.
• Society.
• Japan's Search for a Role in the World Order.
• THE END OF THE "JAPANESE MODEL"?, 1992-2001.
• Japan and Globalization: Challenge to the Economic and Social Model.
• Politics: Decline and Rearrangement.
• Return to Contestation and Changes in Thinking.
• Japan's International Position.