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Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in 21st Century Japan (Asia's Transformations) (1st Edition) by Jeffrey Kingston Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-415-27483-4 / 0415274834 ISBN-13: 978-0-415-27483-8 / 9780415274838 The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's Lost Decade' to describe how the phenomenal growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the country was subsequently crippled by enormous and ongoing political, economic and social problems. In responding to these unprecedented difficulties, wide-rangin |