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Article: Creating the new Japan.(Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- May 1, 2005
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Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century. Jeff Kingston. Routledge Curzon. [pounds sterling]21.99 p.b. xvi + 358 pages. ISBN 0-415-27483-4.
Amongst many contemporary commentators on Japan's modern international affairs, the 1990s have been dubbed the 'lost decade'; a definition highlighted in the Japan Times of 1 January 2001. After years of stupendous growth the Japanese economy sustained a crippling deceleration and the nation was undermined by developing problems in political, economic and social life. Above all the country's politicians were ineffective in responding, particularly, to the economic melt-down and ...