"A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Japan's possible futures / Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison -- Demography as destiny : falling birthrates and the allure of a blended society / Sawako Shirahase -- Precarity and hope : social connectedness in postcapitalist Japan / Anne Allison -- Risk and consequences : the changing Japanese employment paradigm / Machiko Osawa and Jeff Kingston -- The future of gender in Japan : work/life balance and relations between the sexes / Ayako Kano -- After Fukushima : veto players and Japanese nuclear policy / Jacques E.C. Hymans -- Japan's megadisaster challenges : crisis management in the modern era / William J. Siembieda and Haruo Hayashi -- Fiscal survival and financial revival : possible futures for the Japanese economy / Saori N. Katada and Gene Park -- Manufacturing in Japan : factories and national policy / Takahiro Fujimoto with Frank Baldwin -- Integrated solutions to complex problems : transforming Japanese science and technology / Masaru Yarime -- Military cooperation and territorial disputes : the changing face of Japan's security policy / Hiroshi Nakanishi -- Economic and strategic leadership in Asia : the rivalry between China and Japan / Claude Meyer -- Possible futures of political leadership : waiting for a transformational prime minister / Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen -- State power versus individual freedom : Japan's constitutional past, present, and possible futures / Lawrence Repeta and Colin P. A. Jones.