Social Europe We Need Book

Full review will go up later. For now, I'll say that it's a relevant diagnosis, circa 1994-5, of Japan's emerging post-bubble ills as well as those that had been festering in the years before. Doesn't theorize any common cause or ground for these problems, and it could be more theoretically coherent, but its arguments hang together pretty well and stand the test of time. Unfortunately, not much has changed in Japanese politics since the 90s.