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1 Conflict or Consensus: Competing Images of Japan 1.1 A uniquely consensual society? 1.2 Collective identity in pre-war Japan 1.3 The US Occupation: rights versus duty 1.4 Liberal reforms refined or reversed? 1.5 Liberal democracy in Japan: issues and perspectives 2 An Economic Structure of Interdependent Rivals 2.1 Affiliated subcontracting and flexibility in production 2.2 Group affiliation among large firms 2.3 Industrial strategy, priority sectors and the favoured few 2.4 Differentiated cooperation between finance and industrial capital 2.5 The state as financial guardian for large firms 2.6 Birth and death rates among small subcontracting firms 2.7 Small firms in distribution 2.8 The small firm: a font of entrepreneurship or a haven for skidders? A Flexible Labour Market 3.1 Earnings differentials by size of firm 3.2 How inflexible is permanent employment? 3.3 A flexible core of permanent employees 3.4 The firm as a surrogate family 3.5 Company loyalty: voluntary acceptance or obligatory requirement? 3.6 The formation of an enterprise union structure 3.7 Enterprise unions in a segmented labour market 4 A Planned Market Economy 4.1 Eulogies for a liberal market economy 4.2 The state as investor rather than consumer 4.3 Reluctant state intervention on transfer payments 4.4 The Japanese savings rate 4.5 FILP a crucial mechanism linking savers and investors 4.6 The state as manager if not owner 4.7 A history of regulated competition 4.8 Amakudari and the boundary between private and public 4.9 Administrative guidance, industrial consultation and policy formation 4.10 The state and private business - allies not adversaries 5 The Japanese Polity 5.1 Continuous conservatism 5.2 The roots of conservative majorities 5.3 The LDP and factional politics 5.4 A divided opposition: the eternal outsiders 5.5 Sectionalized support among the LDP's opponents 5.6 Accommodating a stronger legislature 5.7 Representation through the non-elected 5.8 Japanese-style pluralism 6 Social Division in Japan 6.1 Social equality: the distribution of income and wealth 6.2 Education and open access to a meritocracy 6.3 Uniform patterns of consumption but predictable social differentials 6.4 Class affiliations from social surveys 6.5 Women in the labour market 6.6 A woman's 'proper place' 6.7 Preparing women for domestic dominance 6.8 Role harmonization and a double shift for married women 6.9 Patriarchy in the public arena 6.10 Japan's segregated minorities 6.11 Prejudice, the state and social action 6.12 The consequences of an ageing society 6.13 A super welfare state for loved and respected elders 6.14 Legitimating inequality 7 Continuity and Change in the Japanese Social Process 7.1 Equal opportunity legislation: superficial or profound social change? 7.2 Reconciling individual rights to collective social values 7.3 Accommodating the divergence of ideals from social practices 7.4 A fragile consensus: the state and environmental protest 7.5 Pollution control and a responsive state 7.6 Internal dissent and non-political protest 7.7 Accommodating external shocks: the high yen crisis after 1985 7.8 Domestic consumers and a flexible labour market as shock absorbers 7.9 'Hollowing-out' or Japanese-style de-industrialization 7.10 Becoming the largest exporter of capital in the world 7.11 Japanese investment overseas: towards a preference for the First World 7.12 The yen crisis and the domestic politics of compartmentalized pluralism 7.13 A concluding comment