00844cam a22001454a 4500008004100000020002800041020003500069100002400104245012200128260005500250300005300305520028100358650003700639050002200676040903s2005    kyuab    b   s001 0 eng    a0813123429 (alk. paper)  a0813191181 (pbk. : alk. paper)1 aKaran, Pradyumna P.10aJapan in the 21st century :benvironment, economy, and society /cPradyumna P. Karan ; cartography by Dick Gilbreath.  aLexington :bUniversity Press of Kentucky,cc2005.  axii, 401 p. :bill., maps ;e1 col. map (folded)1 a"Japan in the Twenty-first Century examines the natural features of this island nation, which have greatly impacted the Japanese people, and explores how the country's social, economic, and political structures have affected Japan's global role in this century."--BOOK JACKET. 0aTwenty-first centuryvForecasts.00aDS806b.K385 2005