Japan's post-World War II "economic miracle" is well-known and much discussed, as is the collapse of the "bubble economy" and the almost decade long economic stagnation of the 1990s. In this collection of essays and articles spanning two decades of intellectual work, Koichi Hasegawa - one of Japan's foremost environmental sociologists - reveals another dimension to the Japanese experience of the late 20th century, a developing civil society. Hasegawa's...