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  • THE EMPTINESS OF AFFLUENCE IN JAPAN
    GAVAN MCCORMACK
    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 s...

    $1,299.00

  • DEMOCRACY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
    GAVAN MCCORMACK / YOSHIO SUGIMOTO
    This title was first published in 1986:  This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel. ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE EMPTINESS OF JAPANESE AFFLUENCE
    GAVAN MCCORMACK / NORMA FIELD
    This work aims to show that Japan even at it's height of success, while the successful version of capitalism was blighted at it's core, being unsustainable. This revised edition features n introduction which gives an analysis of Japan's contemporary crisis. ...

    $1,399.00

  • JAPAN'S CONTESTED CONSTITUTION
    GLENN D. HOOK / GAVAN MCCORMACK
    Japan's Contested Constitution is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Japanese domestic politics and the international role of Japan. Subjects covered include; * the no war, `pacifist' clause * tension between the constitution and the US-Japan security treaty * the political import of the constitution for Japanese political parties * the significance of the constit...

    $1,259.00