ABSTRACT
Bringing together the work of sixteen international Japan specialists and scholars, this book analyzes Japan’s culture and history to reflect on the critical policy decisions and national commitments required for the country to continue to succeed.
Comparing the current situation with the uncertainties of the late nineteenth century, this book investigates the possibility and desirability of a "New Meiji Transformation" in Japan. Set in the context of perceived demographic, ecological, fiscal and political decline in Japan, it explores what a New Meiji initiative would look like in the twenty-first century and whether a new era of renewal is needed to maintain and improve quality of life.
An interdisciplinary volume, this book covers contemporary issues in Japanese foreign, defense and nuclear strategies, as well as its aging population, higher education structure and environmental policies. As such Japan’s Future and a New Meiji Transformation will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese politics, economics and history, as well as Asian Studies more generally.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|6 pages
Introduction
part I|2 pages
Japan in a changing world
chapter 2|9 pages
New Meiji’s economics and finance
chapter 7|20 pages
Nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula
part II|2 pages
Is there a Meiji model for twenty-first-century Japan?
chapter 9|9 pages
Learning from Okinawa’s geopolitical history
part III|2 pages
Japan’s strengths and challenges