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Part 1: Introduction 1. A New Japan in the Twenty-First Century: Introduction to a Changing Nation Rien T. Segers Part 2: Business and Technology 2. Japanese Banks: The Lost Decade and New Challenges Nobuyoshi Yamori and Narunto Nishigaki 3. Japan’s Current and Future Technological Agendas Taizo Yakushiji Part 3: Politics, Governance and Foreign Policy 4. Japanese Contemporary Politics: Towards a New InterpretationTakashi Inoguchi 5. Japan as a Changing Civil Society: Public Philosophy and the Three-Sector Model Toshihisa Nagasaka 6. Major Developments in Japanese Foreign Policy since the Mid-1990’s Kazuo Ogoura Part 4: Social Issues 7. Symptomatic Transformations. Japan, the Media and Cultural Globalization Koichi Iwabuchi 8. Re-Identified Japan: Cultural Turns in Television Commercials after the 1980’s Shoji Yamada 9. Current Changes within the Japanese Higher Education System: Past and Future Yumiko Hada 10. The ‘Class A War Criminal’ Syndrome: Changing Historical Consciousness in Present Day Japan Kei Ushimura 11. Beyond the Geisha-Stereotype: Changing Images of ‘New Women’ in Japanese Popular Culture Junko Saeki Part 5: National Identity 12. Japanese Religion Adrift: A Re-Examination of ‘Religion’ in Post-War Japan Tetsuo Yamaori 13. Japanese Religiosity amidst the Changing Chaos of Several Forms of Nationalism Yo Hamada 14. In Search of a New National Identity. An Analysis of the National Psyche of Postwar Japan Hisashi Owada Part 6: Conclusions 15. The Necessity for a Re-Interpretation of a Changing Japan Rien T. Segers