John Clammer 
Contemporary Urban Japan [PDF ebook] 
A Sociology of Consumption

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption.
2. Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City.
3. The Context of Desire.
4. Shopping and the Social Self.
5. Gender, Class and the Internationalization of
Consumption.
6. Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and
Representation of the Body.
7. Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the
Imagination in Japanese Tourism.
8. Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan.
References.
Index.

John Clammer is Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo.