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Crisis narratives, institutional change, and the transformation of the Japanese state / edited by Sebastian Maslow and Christian Wirth.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Japan--1989-.
- Economic development.
- Japan.
- National security--Japan--History--1989-.
- National security.
- History.
- Japan--Politics and government--1989-.
- Politics and government.
- Japan--Social conditions--1989-.
- Social conditions.
- Japan--Economic conditions--1989-.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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
- 2 Authoritarian Populism in Everyday Life: The Discursive Politics of Demographic and Lifestyle Changes in Japan
- Authoritarian Populism
- Gendering Authoritarian Populism
- The Discursive Politics of Demographic and Lifestyle Change in Japan
- 3 Save Our Students? Shifting Subjects of Higher Education Crisis in Japan
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- Notes
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Crisis narratives, institutional change, and the transformation of the Japanese state
- ISBN:
- 9781438486109
- 1438486103
- Publisher Number:
- 40030832066
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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