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  • Japan's Defense Policy and Bureaucratic Politics, 1976-2007

    by Takao Sebata ...
    It is a well known fact that Japan spends only a small percentage of her gross national product on defense. What is not well known, however, is the fact that Japan's defense budget ranks among the top in the world and that her self-defense forces are considered to be amongst the best conventional armed forces in the world. Since empirical studies concerning Japan's military expansion are rare both ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Japan Rising

    The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose

    by Kenneth Pyle ...
    Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles of the 21st century, critical questions arise about its motivations. What are the driving forces that influence how Japan will act in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 3.11

    Disaster and Change in Japan

    by Richard J. Samuels ...
    On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake originating less than 50 miles off its eastern coastline. The most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan in recorded history, it produced a devastating tsunami with waves reaching heights of over 130 feet that in turn caused an unprecedented multireactor meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Japan's International Relations

    Politics, Economics and Security

    by Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher W. Hughes, Hugo Dobson ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    The latest edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations. It offers a clear and concise introduction to the most important aspects of Japan's role in the globalized economy of the twenty-first century. The book has been fully updated and revised to include comprehensive discussions of contemporary ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Securing Japan

    Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia

    by Richard J. Samuels ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded strategic review in Tokyo just as these matters have in Washington. What is the next step for Japan's ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989

    From balancing to bandwagoning?

    by Reinhard Drifte ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989 raises the crucial question of whether Japan's political leadership which is still preoccupied with finding a new political constellation and with overcoming a deep economic crisis is able to handle such a complex policy in the face of an increasingly assertive China and a US alliance partner with strong swings between engaging and containing China ... Read more

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  • Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan

    Edited by Carola Hein, Philippe Pelletier ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan, Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan, approaches the subject from an urban studies and planning approach. The essays in the collection present a cogent compilation of case studies focusing on the past, present and future of decentralization in Japan. These include small scale development in the fields such ... Read more

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  • Japan's Subnational Governments in International Affairs

    by Purnendra Jain ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    This book moves away from the common belief that Japan’s international relations are firmly the preserve of the national government in Japan’s highly centralised political system. Examining examples of subnational governments (SNGs) across Japan the book uncovers a significant and generally unrecognised development in Japanese politics: SNGs are ever more dynamic international actors as national ... Read more

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  • Japan as a 'Normal Country'?

    A Nation in Search of Its Place in the World

    Edited by Masayaki Tadokoro, Yoshihide Soeya, David A. Welch ...
    Series series Japan and Global Society
    For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of sophistication. Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic and geographically comparative discussion of the unique limitations of Japanese foreign and defence policy. The contributors reappraise the definition of normality and ask whether Japan is indeed ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Contested Governance in Japan

    Sites and Issues

    Edited by Glenn D. Hook ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes ... Read more

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  • Making Japanese Citizens

    Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan

    by Simon Andrew Avenell ...
    Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Planning for Empire

    Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State

    by Janis A. Mimura ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the project of remaking the Japanese state along technocratic and fascistic lines and creating a self-sufficient Asian bloc centered on Japan and its puppet state of Manchukuo. In Planning for Empire, Janis Mimura traces the origins and evolution of this ... Read more

    $22.79 USD