Peace and democracy in two systems : external policy and internal conflict / John W. Dower -- Japan's position in the world system / Bruce Cumings -- The past in the present / Carol Gluck -- Growth versus success : Japan's economic policy in historical perspective / Laura E. Hein -- The structure and transformation of conservative rule / Gary D. Allinson -- Negotiating social contracts / Sheldon Garon, Mike Mochizuki -- Dialectics of economic growth, national power, and distributive struggles / Koji Taira -- Finding a place in metropolitan Japan : ideologies, institutions, and everyday life / William W. Kelly -- Formations of mass culture / Marilyn Ivy -- Consuming and saving / Charles Yuji Horioka -- The death of "good wife, wise mother"? / Kathleen S. Uno -- Unplaced persons and movements for place / Frank K. Upham -- Altered states : the body politics of "being-woman" / Sandra Buckley -- Contests for the workplace / Andrew Gordon -- Intellectuals and politics / J. Victor Koschmann -- The dynamics of political opposition / James W. White.