Peak Japan : the end of great ambitions / Brad Glosserman
- Bib ID:
- 8045366
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Glosserman, Brad, author
- Description:
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- Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2019]
- viii, 263 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781626166691 (paperback ;) (alkaline paper)
- 1626166692 (paperback ;) (alkaline paper)
- 9781626166684 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
- 1626166684 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9781626166707 (electronic book)
- Summary:
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The post-Cold War era has been difficult for Japan. A country once heralded for evolving a superior form of capitalism and seemingly ready to surpass the United States as the world's largest economy lost its way in the early 1990s. The bursting of the bubble in 1991 ushered in a period of political and economic uncertainty that has lasted for over two decades. There were hopes that the triple catastrophe of March 11, 2011--a massive earthquake, tsunami, and accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant--would break Japan out of its torpor and spur the country to embrace change that would restart the growth and optimism of the go-go years. But today Japan is still waiting for needed transformation, and Brad Glosserman concludes that the fact that even disaster has not spurred radical enough reform reveals something about Japan's political system. Glosserman explains why Japan will not change, concluding that Japanese horizons are shrinking and that the Japanese public has given up the bold ambitions of previous generations and its current leadership. This is an important insight into contemporary Japan and one that should shape our thinking about this vital country.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- The unhappy country
- The Lehman shock
- The Seiji shokku
- The Senkaku shokku
- Higashi nihon daishinsai, or the "great East Japan earthquake"
- Abe Shinzo's triumphant return
- Peak Japan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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