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Introduction  Part I Foundations  1. History: War Memory and Japan’s "Postwar"  2. Politics: after the Demise of the "1955 System"  3. The Law in Japan  4. The Japanese Economy  5. Work and Employment: Inside, outside and beyond the Lifetime Employment Model  6. Civil Society in Japan  7. Structures and Dynamics of Japan’s Urban-Rural Relationship  8. Japan’s New Immigration: Gap in Admission Policy and Diversity in Socio-economic Integration’  9. Discursive Politics of Gender in Japan  10. Family and Demographic Issues in Japan  11. Popular Imagination in Japan  12. Japan’s International Relations  Part II Issues  13. Democracy in Japan  14. Japan’s Territorial Problems: Continuing Legacies of the San Francisco System  15. The Politics of Nationalism and Identity in Contemporary Japan  16. Employment Regulation and Practices: The Production and Consumption of Non-Regular Work  17. Energy Issues in Japan  18. Japan and the Environment: Industrial Pollution, Biodiversity Loss, and Climate Change  19. Japan’s Post Catch-up Modernity: Educational Transformation and its Unintended Consequences 20. University Reform in Japan  21. Studying Japan’s Generations  22. Gender Equality in Japan  23. Femininity and Masculinity  24. LGBT  25. Consumerism  26. Food  27. Tourism  28. Young Urban Migrants in the Japanese Countryside between Self-Realization and Slow Life? The Quest for "Small-scale Happiness" and Alternative Lifestyles in Post-growth Japan  29. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games: The Political Economy of Tokyo Hosting the World  30. Social Malaise in Japan  31. Media in Japan  32. Mobile Reflections: Rethinking Digitality in a post 3/11 Japan  33. Okinawa: Rooting and routing of Uchinānchu and Shimā  34. The Great East Japan Earthquake and Post-Disaster Japan