Emptiness of Affluence in Japan

Against the powerful image of Japan as a rising economic superpower, or even, in Ezra Vogel''s influential formulation a deade ago, "Japan as number 1", this book explores the fragility, hubris and human and environmental costs of Japan''s desperate drive for hyperdevelopment. As this economic superpower finds itself drifting, rudderless, through the decade, four seminal events seem to emblemise t...