Emptiness of Japanese Affluence

"It is to McCormack's great credit that he diagnosed so well Japan's condition... when it was still possible to refer to Japanese affluence without irony. Now that that is no longer the case, his careful analyses are all the more compelling; for we must acknowledge that Japan once provided world history with an astonishingly successful version of capitalism. Even at its height, or rather, especially at its height, McCormack shows, this success was blighted at its core, being unsustainable." - From Norma Field's Foreword"

• Tilting Toward the Millennium: Kobe and Beyond; 1: Political Economy; 1: The Construction State: The Pathology of the Doken Kokka; 2: The Leisure State: Work, Rest, and Consumption; 3: The Farm State: GATTing Japan; 2: Identity; 4: The Regional State: Asia and the Dilemmas of National Identity; 5: The Peace State:Dilemmas of Power; 3: Memory; 6: Remembering and Forgetting: The War, 1945–95; Concluding Remarks; Japan at Century's End