Japan in Crisis

PREFACE - Hahm Chaibong INTRODUCTION - T.J. Pempel PART I: STARTING WITH FUKUSHIMA 1. The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and Its Political and Social Implications; Masakatsu Ota PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SLOW GROWTH 2. Japan's Economic Crisis: More Chronic than Acute - So Far; Gregory W. Noble 3. Japan's Fiscal Challenge: The Political Economy of Reform; William W. Grimes PART III: HURDLING POLITICAL OBSTACLES 4. Governance Crisis in Japan: Return to the Basic Building Blocks of Democracy; Tetsundo Iwakuni 5. The Ghost of the Second Republic? The Structural Weakness of Parliamentary Bicameralism in Japan; Jun Saito PART IV: TOWARD A MULTICULTURAL SOLUTION? 6. Embracing Asia: Japan's Expat Politics; Kim Mikyoung PART V: IMPROVING RELATIONS WITH THE ASIA-PACIFIC NEIGHBORS 7. What Will It Take for Japan to Rise Again? Vision, Regional Initiative, and Japan-Korea Relations; Kazuhiko Togo 8. Regional Situation Awareness as a Basis for Northeast Asian Regional Cooperation in Dealing with Transnational Nuclear Disasters; Kim Sok Chul 9. The US-Japan Alliance and Japan's Future; Michael Auslin 10. An Economic Step toward Revitalizing Japan and US-Japan Ties; T.J. Pempel INDEX