Description
Book SynopsisState and Society in Post--War Japan integrates the previous work of disciplinary specialists into a coherent account of how Japanese society has changed since the war.
Trade Review"... a book which can be safely recommended to colleagues and students who want or need to know more about contemporary Japan." (
Times Higher Education Supplement)
"[a] comprehensive study" (International Review of Administrative Sciences)
"an outstanding contribution. ...[this book] corrects many popular misconceptions about Japan ... a useful book because of the broad arguments that it develops." (British Journal of Industrial Relations)
"A substantial example of critical empirical sociology. It should become a standard text in the sociology of Japan and of industrial society." (Reviewing Sociology)
Table of ContentsAbbreviations.
Acknowledgements.
1. Conflict or Consensus: Competing Images of Japan.
2. An Economic Structure of Interdependent Rivals.
3. A Flexible Labour Market.
4. A Planned Market Economy.
5. The Japanese Polity.
6. Social Divisions in Japan.
7. Continuity and Change in the Japanese Social Process.
Bibliography.
Index.
