Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Japan's possible futures / Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison
  • Demography as destiny : falling birthrates and the allure of a blended society / Sawako Shirahase
  • Precarity and hope : social connectedness in postcapitalist Japan / Anne Allison
  • Risk and consequences : the changing Japanese employment paradigm / Machiko Osawa and Jeff Kingston
  • The future of gender in Japan : work/life balance and relations between the sexes / Ayako Kano
  • After Fukushima : veto players and Japanese nuclear policy / Jacques E.C. Hymans
  • Japan's megadisaster challenges : crisis management in the modern era / William J. Siembieda and Haruo Hayashi
  • Fiscal survival and financial revival : possible futures for the Japanese economy / Saori N. Katada and Gene Park
  • Manufacturing in Japan : factories and national policy / Takahiro Fujimoto with Frank Baldwin
  • Integrated solutions to complex problems : transforming Japanese science and technology / Masaru Yarime
  • Military cooperation and territorial disputes : the changing face of Japan's security policy / Hiroshi Nakanishi
  • Economic and strategic leadership in Asia : the rivalry between China and Japan / Claude Meyer
  • Possible futures of political leadership : waiting for a transformational prime minister / Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen
  • State power versus individual freedom : Japan's constitutional past, present, and possible futures / Lawrence Repeta and Colin P. A. Jones.