Shutting Out the Sun : How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation Brooks/Cole wrings suspense and humor out

wrings suspense and humor out of the everyday choices we make

and how they pass on their most cherished practices and values

brutality and fear

Meera Atkinson's friendship transcends pubescent pop star fandom

The author sets the law in its social and historical context

Shutting Out the Sun : How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation Brooks/Cole wrings suspense and humor outThe worlds second wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a rising incidence of untreated cases of depression. Equally as troubling are the more than one million young men who shut