Examining Japan's lost decades [electronic resource] / edited by Yoichi Funabashi and Barak Kushner.

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.