Japanese Politics

This textbook investigates Japanese politics in the postwar era from theoretical and comparative perspectives. After providing historical context, it offers an in-depth exploration of postwar political institutions, political reform in the 1990s, the policymaking process, and the politics of economi..

This textbook investigates Japanese politics in the postwar era from theoretical and comparative perspectives. After providing historical context, it offers an in-depth exploration of postwar political institutions, political reform in the 1990s, the policymaking process, and the politics of economi..

Exploring Japan’s involvement in both Afghanistan and Iraq, this book examines the evolution and nature of the new civil-military dimension in Japanese foreign policy. It shows how foreign aid, Japan’s traditional non-military diplomatic tool, was merged with the operations of the Japanese Self-Defe..

This book focuses on the processes of change taking place in Japan’s politics and economy. The contributors look at a number of different areas including political leadership, the defence industry, security and diplomatic policy, peace building, official development assistance, the economic and busi..

This book shows how trust and co-operation with the United States, the only partner with which Japan has a formal alliance, is being rebuilt. And discusses how other relationships, both on security and on wider issues, are being formed in the region and other countries - with India and Australia bei..

This book examines the nature of Japan’s power, showing how its influence on the global stage appears to be shifting from economic and financial to more political and military. Featuring a team of Japanese international relations experts, each chapter analyses the facets of Japanese power, evaluatin..

An empirical and theoretical study of the Koizumi administration. Uchiyama looks at the policy making process; institutional arenas such as the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy; Koizumi’s populist strategy; foreign policy; and neoliberal convictions to find explanations for his wide public supp..

There are frequent protests that a biased, nationalistic history is taught in Japanese schools. This study analyses authorised textbooks currently in use, elucidating meanings and associated ideologies created through language...

This book explores what every day ‘regular’ in the system political participation looks like in a small traditional Japanese city – Oita. It focuses especially on the role local institutions and politicians play in influencing the kinds of participation available and subsequently, the attitudes crea..

This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions. Its empirical focus is on the local politics of Japan which has significantly shaped, and been shaped by, larger developments in national politics. The book argues that since the 1990s, chang..

This book systematically explores the complex dynamics that shape contemporary Japanese-Chinese relations, and in particular, analyses the so-called ‘revival’ of nationalism in post-Cold War Japan and its impact on the atmosphere of the bilateral relationship. Further, by adopting a neoclassical rea..

This book is the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the U.S. and Japanese foreign policy formulation and implementation processes from 1961 to 1978, which also explores the long-term strategic significance of the U.S. deterrence in East Asia. It is based on numerous declassified and pre..