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How japan chooses to handle these problems and opportunities will determine its future for decades to come. This book provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary compendium written by a number of leading specialists on contemporary japan. Jeff kingston is director of asian studies, temple university japan and author of japan 2019 and editor of critical issues. History, politics, and social change since the 1980s blackwell history of the contemporary world paperback. Precarious work in japan machiko osawa, myoung jung kim.
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