Chapter 1 Power and Change

Chapter 2 Contesting Children’s Citizenship Education: What Should Japanese Children Know?

Chapter 3 Political Socialization

Chapter 5 Who Does the Dishes? Fairness and Household Chores

Chapter 6 Power over Family Policy: Governing of or Governing through Individuals

Chapter 7 Creating Community at Daycare: Deflecting the Power of the State

Chapter 8 Workers and Unions

Chapter 9 Examining Power in Hierarchical Social Networks in East Asia

Chapter 10 The Gender Triad: Men, Women, and Corporations

Chapter 11 Who—If Anyone—Is in Charge? Evolving Discourses of Political Power and Bureaucratic Delegation in Postwar Japanese Policymaking

Chapter 12 Holding on to Power: Politicians and Reelection

Chapter 13 Selling the Idea of Local Power: Decentralization Reforms Since the 1990s

Chapter 14 Soft–Hard Power Convergence and Democracy in Abe’s Japan