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Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan edited by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka and Ewa Machotka. - 1 online resource (1 EPUB unpaged) : illustrations. - Consumption and sustainability in Asia ; 1 . - Consumption and sustainability in Asia ; 1. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Open Access

This multidisciplinary book analyses the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan. It focuses on the dilemma that the diffusion of the concepts of sustainability and recycling has posed for everyday consumption practices, and on how these concepts have affected, and were affected by, the production and consumption of art. Special attention is paid to the changes in consumption practices and environmental consciousness among the Japanese public that have occurred since the 1990s and in the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters of March 2011.

ISBN: 9789048530021 9048530024

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Salvage (Waste, etc.)--Japan.
Consumer behavior--Japan.
Consumption (Economics)--Environmental aspects--Japan.
Consumption (Economics)--Japan.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Japan--Social conditions--1989-

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HC465.C6 / C66 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 339.470952