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The Emptiness of Affluence in Japan (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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The Emptiness of Affluence in Japan (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Against the powerful image of Japan as a rising economic
superpower, or even, in Ezra Vogel's influential formulation a
deade ago, "Japan as number 1", this book explores the fragility,
hubris and human and environmental costs of Japan's desperate drive
for hyperdevelopment. As this economic superpower finds itself
drifting, rudderless, through the decade, four seminal events seem
to emblemise the enveloping crisis: the Kobe Earthquake, which the
author shows to be no mere act of nature, but an event whose
consequences are intimately bound up with desperate hypergrowth;
The Ayum Rikyo poison gas attack, which struck at Japan's sense of
security in its deepest senses (psychological and moral, as well as
physical); the collapse of the LDP single-party rule after nearly
40 years, plunging Japan's superstable political system into crises
manifested by implausible coalition with little more than a thirst
to rule in common; and Japan's inability to come to terms with war
respnsibility ever after 50 years, best symbolised by the Comfort
Women issue and the government's hapless attempt to come up with an
appropriate formula for recognising, apologising and making amends
for wartime aggression and crimes. Gavan McCormack addresses these
issues - which are political, economic, social cultural and moral
in the most profound sense - directly in this book.
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