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Introduction: The complex of class and education in a changing society 1. Education and social mobility in post-war Japan 2. The age of meritocracy 3. Meritocracy, ability orientation and ‘discrimination’ 3.1. The irony of egalitarianism in post-war Japan 3.2. A double standard of inequality and ‘meritocratic discrimination’ 4. Education Reform and Elite Education 5. Inequality of effort under the meritocracy 6. Pitfalls of the ‘self-responsible society’ – Is opportunity equal? 7. The structure of self-confidence – Educational inequality and self-esteem 8. The incentive divide - Selecting the society of the future 9. Afterword