Preface
Japan-A Case Apart
Part One
A Showa Perspective
Chapter 1 Japan's Golden Age
Chapter 2 The Real Significance of the Showa Celebrations
Chapter 3 Picture Postcard Showa
Chapter 4 Urban Vistas, Urban Life
Chapter 5 A Showa Phenomenon: the "Salaryman"
Chapter 6 Of Brawn and Drudgery: Japan's Manual Workers
Chapter 7 Authority Challenged
Chapter 8 The Foreign Element
Chapter 9 Religions and Traditions
Chapter 10 Arts, Crafts, Culture, and Fashion
Part Two
The Breathless Eighties: From Boom to Bust
Chapter 11 Investing the Bubble way
Chapter 12 Bubble Excesses
Chapter 13 Sex and the Japanese City
Chapter 14 The Emergence of Subcultures
Chapter 15 The Advent of Mass Travel
Chapter 16 The Rise of Culinary Chic
Chapter 17 The Bubble Bursts
Part Three
The Magellan Decade: A Post-Bubble X-Ray
Chapter 18 The Morning After
Chapter 19 Individualism - Ah, You Mean Selfishness
Chapter 20 The Myth of the Lost Decade
Chapter 21 A Question of Identity
Chapter 22 Personal Priorities in Life
Chapter 23 The Slow Escape from Insularity
Part Four
Overcoming Showa
Chapter 24 New Challenges, Old Medicine
Chapter 25 The State of the Nation
Chapter 26 What Has Changed
Chapter 27 What Hasn't Changed
Chapter 28 On Forming Ideas and Opinions
Chapter 29 Hidden Agonies
Chapter 30 The Patriotism Trap
Chapter 31 A Free (or Shackled?) Press
Chapter 32 Education for the Future
Chapter 33 Japan's Unfinished Business
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Index
