Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
5. Conventions xv
6. Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State 1
7. Narrating Japan’s Social Crisis
8. Japan’s Melting Core 25
9. Authoritarian Populism in Everyday Life 51
10. Save Our Students? 77
11. Narrating Japan’s Political and Economic Crises
12. A Crisis of Democracy 109
13. From Leader to Laggard? 135
14. Contradiction and Discontent in Japan 161
15. Narrating Japan’s National Security Crisis
16. “Failures” and “Crises” in Japanese Foreign Policy 191
17. From Ashes to New 215
18. A State of Crisis 239
19. “The World Is Marveling at Japan!” 265
20. Narrating Japan’s Crisis, Narrating Japan’s Rebirth 289
21. Contributors 303
22. Index 305