themes by examining figures such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Hajime Kawakami, a prominent thinker in Japan. By casting a … illuminates the emergence of original democratic thought in post-war Japan. …

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the … theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese … elaboration of a new conceptual framework, but it soon proved unable to directly explain Japan’s experience by that central …

This book describes and clarifies how certain problems can be resolved in Japan and Asia. For the future, the focus … should be on Japan, which can provide "common knowledge" as a public good. The book collects the results of researchers in … Japan, China, South Korea, and Indonesia on declining birthrates and aging, rapid technological innovation and societal …