The book entitled “Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s” is a piece of writing chronicling and comprehensively examining the causes of the Japanese economic bubble in the late 1980s and the effects of the recent financial collapse. This is one of the few books to probe and examine the depth and profundity of the crisis in the country since Emperor Hirohito passed away, the Cold War closed, and the economy went down the drain. It attempts to assess the dramatic political revolution of the country in 2009. It analyzes how risk has stepped up in the country that resulting to the undermining of the sense of security and the causing of greater [...]