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Title Crisis narratives, institutional change, and the transformation of the Japanese state / edited by Sebastian Maslow and Christian Wirth
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Crisis narratives, institutional change, and the transformation of the Japanese state / Christian Wirth and Sebastian Maslow -- Japan's melting core : social frames and political crisis narratives of rising inequalities / David Chiavacci -- Authoritarian populism in everyday life : the discursive politics of demographic and lifestyle changes in Japan / Hiroko Takeda -- Save our students? : shifting subjects of higher education crisis in Japan / Jeremy Breaden -- A crisis of democracy : civil society and energy politics before and after the Fukushima nuclear disaster / Koichi Hasegawa -- From leader to laggard? : crisis narratives and structural reform in Japanese science, technology, and innovation policy / Iris Wieczorek -- Contradiction and discontent in Japan : Abenomics and the failing politics of economic reform / Saori Shibata -- "Failures" and "crises" in Japanese foreign policy : the Democratic Party of Japan's rule 2009–2012 / Paul O'Shea -- From ashes to new : the delegitimization and comeback of Japan's official development assistance / Raymond Yamamoto -- A state of crisis : North Korean missiles, abductions, and the transformation of postwar Japan / Ra Mason and Sebastian Maslow -- "The world is marveling at Japan!" Japanese strategies to avoid its "crisis of confidence" / Shogo Suzuki -- Conclusion: Narrating Japan's crisis, narrating Japan's rebirth / Sebastian Maslow and Christian Wirth
Summary "Looking at Japan, this book traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures. Mired in national crises since the early 1990s, Japan has had to respond to a rapid population decline; the Asian and global financial crises; the 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown; the Covid-19 pandemic; China's economic rise; threats from North Korea; and massive public debt"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2021)
Subject Economic development -- Japan -- 1989-
National security -- Japan -- History -- 1989-
Economic development
Economic history
National security
Politics and government
Social conditions
SUBJECT Japan -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95001180
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008001967
Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90003616
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Maslow, Sebastian, editor.
Wirth, Christian, 1975- editor.
LC no. 2021035248
ISBN 9781438486109
1438486103