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All journal articles featured in contemporary japan vol 32 issue 1. Critical issues in contemporary japan jeff kingston. About the author jeff kingston is professor of history and director of asian studies at the japan campus of temple university. This article examines the causes and consequences of the dramatic growth of precarious employment in japan since the 1990s. Jeff kingston is professor of history and director of asian studies at temple university japan campus. The second edition of this comprehensive study of recent japanese history now includes the authors expert assessment of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, including the political and environmental. Chapters japans quiet transformation, consequences. History, politics and social change since the 1980s presents a comprehensive examination of the causes of the japanese economic. Social change and civil society in the 21st century 2005. Disasters and social crisis in contemporary japan springerlink. Publication date 2012 topics japan, history, politics, 1980s collection folkscanomy. Japan was shaken by the double disaster of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. Downsizing fukushima and japans nuclear relaunch springerlink.
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History, politics, and social change since the 1980s 9781118315071. He is the author of burmas despair, critical asian studies, 40. Journal analyze the socioeconomic challenges brought about by a slowing economy. This analysis deploys the alternative lens of grid electricitythe great macrotechnology of the twentieth centuryto reevaluate the dynamics of the anthropocene outside the anglozone. Jeff kingston, professor at temple university, japan campus tuj and director of asian studies at tuj will give a book talk, followed by a discussion with the audience on his new book contemporary japan. Jeff kingston is professor of history and director of asian studies at temple university, japan.
Precarious work in japan with machiko osawa and myoung jun kim, american behavioral scientist. Japan was shaken by the double disaster of earthquake and sarin gas attack in. May 06, 2017 press freedom in contemporary japan, edited by jeff kingston. He has written widely on modern japanese history and japans relations with asia, including the books japan in transformation 19522000 2001 and japans quiet transformation.
This book provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary compendium written by a number of leading specialists on contemporary japan. In response to heightened competition associated with globalization, japanese firms adopted costcutting policies to remain competitive, especially in terms of reducing wage outlays. Museums, manga, memorials and korean japan history wars, asian studies ii xvii 2 2014, 4171. Media muzzling under the abe administration, aurelia george mulgan. Social change and civil society in the 21st century routledge, 2004. Critical issues in contemporary japan by jeff kingston, 9780415857444, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
He has written widely on modern japanese history and japan s relations with asia, including the books japan in transformation 19522000 2001 and japan s quiet transformation. Dec 17, 20 jeff kingston is professor of history and director of asian studies at temple university, japan. It is against this backdrop that jeff kingston, professor of history and director of asian. This new and fully updated second edition of critical issues in contemporary japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary textbook written by leading specialists on contemporary japan. Author jeff kingston reveals that while after two decades the japanese economy remains mired in. Between 2011 and 2017, the media was mostly on its back foot, losing credibility over its initial coverage about the fukushima nuclear accident and withstanding heavyhanded efforts by abes government to pressure and intimidate the media into selfcensorship kingston 2018a. Watchdog journalism in japan rebounds but still compromised. Contemporary japan jeff kingston pdf history, politics, and social change since the 1980s published on jul 9, 2018 read contemporary japan pdf history, politics, and social change since the 1980s. History, politics, and social change since the 1980s 9781405191944. Critical issues in contemporary japan by jeff kingston. Keidanren, consumption tax, and the lost decade of the.
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