Asian Studies

For the first time in a single volume, this book presents the various arguments in the Indo-Aryan controversy...

Written by the best-selling author of Asia Pacific Economies, this book, containing a thorough analysis of pre- and post-crisis environments and industry is an important addition to the literature on industrial development in developing countries...

Examines the top ministerial team sent in 1872 by the new Meiji government to the West in order to idenitify, classify and assess Western technology and culture, and to open a dialogue to review the so-called 'unequal treaties'._x000D_..

Faced with western contempt and suspicion, the Meiji Government staged this exhibition to advance Japanese agendas in political, economic and educational terms. The first major study principally concerned with the Japanese side of this story...

Not another 'misunderstandings and misconceptions' volume, but a wide-ranging review of intellectual traditions, mutual and alternative images, and case studies of people and events that mirror the focus of this book...

A study of the Japanese police system, taking a comparative approach in which the author compares many Japanese police practices side by side with US policy practices. It places the investigation of police behaviour within the setting of other criminal justice institutions such as the courts...

A study of the Japanese police system, taking a comparative approach in which the author compares many Japanese police practices side by side with US policy practices. It places the investigation of police behaviour within the setting of other criminal justice institutions such as the courts...

How British school pupils were recruited to learn in 18 months or less what was then considered to be the most difficult language in the world, in order to become translators, interpreters and interrogators for the allied effort in the Pacific War...

This book is concerned with the areas where Jews and Chinese, Judaism and Chinese religions and ideologies are converging or inter relate to each other. It includes chapters on Confuciansim, the Kaifeng Jewish Descendants, business and Chinese/Israeli relations...

Over the last two decades courts have become major players in the political landscape in Asia. This book assesses what is driving this apparent trend toward judicialization in the region. It looks at the variations within the judicialization trend, and how these variations affect political practice ..

First major study in English of the Japanese 'hidden' Christians and the development of the faith and rituals from the 16th century to the present day...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...