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"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]

Table of Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Conventions
• Introduction: Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State
• From Crisis to Crisis Politics
• Debating Crisis and Change in Japan
• The Socioeconomic Crisis: The Collapse of "Japan Inc."
• The Political Crisis: The Eclipse of the 1955 System and Failed Reforms
• The 3.11 Triple Disaster and the Resurgence of "Japan Inc."
• Conceptualizing Crisis and Change in Politics
• Global Change and Post-Modernity?
• Crisis as a Narrated Moment of Intervention
• Organization of the Volume
• Notes
• Part I Narrating Japan's Social Crisis
• 1 Japan's Melting Core: Social Frames and Political Crisis Narratives of Rising Inequalities
• Introduction
• The Gap Society Frame and Its Social Resonance

• The Politicization of the Gap Society Frame and Political Crisis Narratives
• Abenomics: The Return to the Good Old Times?
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 2 Authoritarian Populism in Everyday Life: The Discursive Politics of Demographic and Lifestyle Changes in Japan
• Introduction
• Authoritarian Populism
• Gendering Authoritarian Populism
• The Discursive Politics of Demographic and Lifestyle Change in Japan
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 3 Save Our Students? Shifting Subjects of Higher Education Crisis in Japan
• Introduction
• The Changing Landscape of University Education
• Narrating Crisis in Higher Education
• Students and the Pathologization of Crisis
• The Destitute Student: Loans in Crisis and "Making Higher Education Free"
• Saving the Student, Fixing the System: Shifting Subjects
• What Kinds of Students Should Be Going to University?
• What Kinds of Universities to Support?
• Can We Help Students and Reform Universities?
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Part II Narrating Japan's Political and Economic Crises
• 4 A Crisis of Democracy: Civil Society and Energy Politics Before and After the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
• Introduction
• The Fukushima Accident and Its Lessons
• The Making of Japan's Nuclear Energy Crisis
• The Nuclear Village and the Malfunctioning of Japan's Regulatory Agency
• Powerless Civil Society
• The Vicious Circle of Providing Subsidies for Siting Nuclear Power Stations
• Energy Policy Shifts in Germany, Taiwan, and South Korea
• Germany's Social Consensus on Denuclearization
• Nuclear-Free Homeland Taiwan by 2025
• Toward a Post-Nuclear State in South Korea
• Japan's Changing Political Culture and the Possibility of an Energy Policy Shift
• Few Policy Changes in Post-Fukushima Japan
• The Current Status of Nuclear Power Plants and Electricity Supply
• Antinuclear Protests after the Fukushima Accident
• Rise of the Anti-Abe Protest Campaign
• Nuclear Energy Politics after the Fukushima Accident
• Conclusion
• Notes

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Contributors:

Maslow, Sebastian , editor

Wirth, Christian, 1975- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Crisis narratives, institutional change, and the transformation of the Japanese state (Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021] — ISBN 9781438486093; LCCN 2021035247)

Subjects:

Economic development — Japan — 1989-

National security — Japan — History — 1989-

Japan — Politics and government — 1989-

Japan — Social conditions — 1989-

Japan — Economic conditions — 1989-

Since 1989

National security

Politics and government

Social conditions

Economic conditions

Economic development

Japan

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JQ1631 .C75 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781438486109 (electronic book)
1438486103 (electronic book)
9781438486093 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781438486086 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021035248

OCLC Numbers:

1268121763