Japanese Studies

Traces the principal currents in Japanese economic thought since the first half of the 19th century and shows how these currents have been influenced by the changing economic and social environment within Japan...

In recent years, Japan’s foreign and security policies have begun to change, despite seemingly stable ‘peaceful norms’ and ‘antimilitarist culture’. This book seeks to address these changes through engagement with recent developments in identity theory, theorizing identity as a product of processes ..

In recent years, Japan’s foreign and security policies have begun to change, despite seemingly stable ‘peaceful norms’ and ‘antimilitarist culture’. This book seeks to address these changes through engagement with recent developments in identity theory, theorizing identity as a product of processes ..

Reveals the true heterogeneity of Japanese society and the micro-level practices that express broad ideologies. The diverse areas examined include education, film and gender segregation...

A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years, the author collected in this volume the most significant current events for discussion. They include the financial crisis of 1927, hostilities with China and in particular Manchuria, Japan’s booming manufacturing industry, Japanese nationalism, J..

A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years, the author collected in this volume the most significant current events for discussion. They include the financial crisis of 1927, hostilities with China and in particular Manchuria, Japan’s booming manufacturing industry, Japanese nationalism, J..

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Written after the outbreak of war between Japan and China but putting aside British sentiments of suspicion, dislike and a sense of competition, G C Allen bases his observations of Japanese social, political and economic life on his first-hand experience of living and working in the country for a nu..

This book, first published in 1984, examines the spectacular economic growth of the Asia Pacific region in the 1970s and 1980s. How did a group of non-Western nations, in an area plagued by war, achieve such success, so quickly? Japan was the driving force in the region, and a dominant influence on ..

This book, first published in 1990 and written from a Japanese perspective, examines the gradual transformation of Japan's traditional role in world politics since the Second World War. With Japan's postwar economic success came calls from many quarters for it to match its economic involvement with ..

The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades. But so, it must be said, has Japan influenced a variety of critical global developments - globalization is not a one-way street, particularly for a nation as economically influential an..