A new Japan in the twenty-first century: introduction to a changing nation / Rien T. Segers
Japanese banks: the lost decade and new challenges / Nobuyoshi Yamori and Narunto Nishigaki
Japan's current and future technological agendas / Taizo Yakushiji
Japanese contemporary politics: towards a new interpretation / Takashi Inoguchi
Japan as a changing civil society: public philosophy and the three-sector model / Toshihisa Nagasaka
Major developments in Japanese foreign policy since the mid-1990's / Kazuo Ogoura
Symptomatic transformations: Japan in the media and cultural globalization / Koichi Iwabuchi
Reidentified Japan: cultural turns in television commercials after the 1980's / Shoji Yamada
Current changes within the Japanese higher education system: past and future / Yumiko Hada
The 'class A war criminal' syndrome: changing historical consciousness in present-day Japan / Kei Ushimura
Beyond the geisha stereotype: changing images of 'new women' in Japanese popular culture / Junko Saeki
Japanese religion adrift: a re-examination of 'religion' in post-war Japan / Tetsuo Yamaori
Japanese religiosity amid the changing chaos of several forms of nationalism / Yo Hamada
In search of a new national identity: an analysis of the national psyche of post-war Japan / Hisashi Owada
Conclusions : the necessity for a reinterpretation of a changing Japan / Rien T. Segers.