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Introduction, Jeff Kingston

PART I: Political environment

1. Japanese politics: mainstream or exotic?, Arthur Stockwin

2. The politics of trade policy, Aurelia George Mulgan

3. Limiting fundamental rights protection in Japan: the role of the Supreme Court, Lawrence Repeta

4. Civil society: past, present, and future, Akihiro Ogawa

5. Japan’s contemporary media, David McNeill

PART II: Nuclear and renewable Energy

6. Revisiting the limits of flexible and adaptive institutions: the Japanese government’s role in nuclear power plant siting over the postwar period, Daniel P. Aldrich

7. Who controls whom? Constraints, challenges and rival policy images in Japan’s postwar energy restructuring, Paul Scalise

8. Japan’s nuclear village: power and resilience, Jeff Kingston

9. Japan’s renewable energy prospects, Andrew DeWit

PART III: International dynamics

10. Bad war or good war? History and politics in post-war Japan, Sven Saaler

11. Japanese territorial disputes with Korea and China: small islets, enduring conflicts, Mark Selden

12. Great expectations: domestic politics and the Russo–Japanese Northern Territories dispute, Tina Burrett

13. Okinawa today: spotlight on Henoko, Alexis Dudden

PART IV: Social dilemmas

14. Demographic dilemmas, women and immigration, Jeff Kingston

15. Reproductive rights in Japan: where do women stand? Tin Tin Htun

16. Hiding in plain sight: minority issues in Japan, Kyle Cleveland

17. Mental health and therapy in Japan: conceptions, practices and challenges, Sachiko Horiguchi

18. Violence in schools: tensions between ‘the individual’ and ‘the group’ in the Japanese education system, Robert W. Aspinall

19. Hidden behind Tokyo: observations on the rest of Japan, John Mock

PART V: Reforming Japan?

20. Seeking to change Japanese society through legal reform, Matthew J. Wilson

21. Parochialism: Japan’s failure to internationalize, Robert Dujarric and Ayumi Takenaka

22. What’s behind what ails Japan, David Leheny

23. Whither Abe’s Japan, Jeff Kingston