Social Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan

<div></div><div><div>Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part&nbsp;I: Modernization and Japan.-&nbsp;Chapter 2:&nbsp;Civil Religion and Second Modernity in Japan: A Sociological Analysis.-&nbsp;Chapter 3:&nbsp;Japan and the Rise of the Idea of Race: The Meiji-Era Fusion of Foreign and Domestic Constructions.-&nbsp;Chapter 4:&nbsp;The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law: Toward a Corporatist Framework.-&nbsp;Chapter 5:&nbsp;Public Health in Occupied Japan Transformed by Statistical Quality Control.-&nbsp;Part II: Identity and Globalization.-&nbsp;Chapter 6:&nbsp;International Issues: Japanese Artists and the Problems with Borders.-&nbsp;Chapter 7:&nbsp;Discourses on Democracy and the (Re)birth of Civil Society, 1945–1952: Mutual Aid and Cooperatist Modernity in Kitakyushu.-&nbsp;Chapter 8:&nbsp;Imagining America: The Origins of Japanese Public Opinion toward the United States in the Cold War.-&nbsp;Chapter 9:&nbsp;Soft Powering Popular Culture: Discourse and Policy Making in Japan's Content Industries.-&nbsp;Chapter 10:&nbsp;Blending Ethnicities: Perceptions of East Asian Identities Today.</div></div><div><br></div>