Japan's Quiet Transformation

The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's lost decade' to describe how the phenomenal growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the country was crippled by enormous and ongoing political economic and social problems. In responding to these unprecedented difficulties wide-ranging reforms have been adopted including NPO information disclosure and judicial reform legislation. Controversially this book argues that such reforms are creating a more robust civil society and demonstrate that Japan is far more dynamic than is generally recognized.