Examining Japan's lost decades  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Yoichi Funabashi and Barak Kushner. 
 - Abingdon, Oxon ;  New York, NY :  Routledge,  2015. 
 - 1 online resource (xxxiv, 338 p.) :  ill. 
 - Routledge contemporary Japan series ;  59 .
<br/><br/>Japan's demographic collapse and the vanishing provinces / Seike Atsushi -- Monetary and fiscal policies during the lost decades / Kenneth Kuttner, Iwaisako Tokuo, and Adam Posen -- The two "lost decades" and macroeconomics : changing economic policies / Kobayashi Keiichiro -- Making sense of the lost decades : workplaces and schools, men and women, young and old, rich and poor / Andrew Gordon -- The two lost decades in education : the failure of reform / Kariya Takehiko -- The Fukushima nuclear accident : lost opportunities and the "safety myth" / Kitazawa Koichi -- The last two decades in Japanese politics : lost opportunities and undesirable outcomes / Machidori Satoshi -- The Gulf War and Japan's national security identity / Michael J. Green and Igata Akira -- Foreign economic policy strategies and economic performance / Peter Drysdale and Shiro Armstrong -- Japan's Asia/Asia-Pacific policy in flux / Shiraishi Takashi -- Okinawa bases and the U.S.-Japan alliance / Sheila A. Smith -- Japanese historical memory / Togo Kazuhiko -- Japan's failed bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council / Akiyama Nobumasa -- The stakeholder state : ideology and values in Japan's search for a post-cold war global role / G. John Ikenberry -- Conclusion : something has been "lost" from our future / Funabashi Yoichi. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781315715223 (ebook : PDF) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Economic conditions--1989-<br/>Japan--Foreign relations--1989-<br/>Japan--Politics and government--1989-<br/>Japan--Social conditions--1989-