This work aims to show that Japan even at it's height of success, while the "successful version of capitalism" was "blighted at it's core, being unsustainable". This revised edition features n introduction which gives an analysis of Japan's contemporary crisis.

Tilting Toward the Millennium: Kobe and Beyond; 1: Political Economy; 1: The Construction State: The Pathology of the Doken Kokka; 2: The Leisure State: Work, Rest, and Consumption; 3: The Farm State: GATTing Japan; 2: Identity; 4: The Regional State: Asia and the Dilemmas of National Identity; 5: The Peace State:Dilemmas of Power; 3: Memory; 6: Remembering and Forgetting: The War, 1945-95; Concluding Remarks; Japan at Century's End