Emptiness of Japanese Affluence

"What an intellectually marvelous world we would have if university folk all wrote prose like McCormack. His well-tempered assessments are the product of a wisdom that comes from much direct experience with, and a profound interest in, his subject." - Karel van Wolfren in The Australian Review of Books

• 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