A wide-ranging collection of essays on diverse aspects of contemporary Japan, held together by the thread of continuity within change, this volume presents fift

Many people in the West portray Japan as being fixed in its ways, and unable to change, and consequently risking national decline and international loss of pres

Since the end of World War II, Japan has not sought to remilitarize, and its postwar constitution commits to renouncing aggressive warfare. Yet many inside and

"A combination of individual and institutional entrepreneurial activities is changing the social and geographical landscape of rural Japan and reinventing that

Japan is a mix of the old and the new, traditional and modern, and old fashion and innovative. It has traveled the road to a modern destination without totally