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Author : Shuxi Xu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Whither Japan written by Shuxi Xu and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glenn D. Hook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317584864
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Regional Risk and Security in Japan written by Glenn D. Hook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan’s unusual position in the realm of international politics encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia, both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst international relations theory offers a number of ways to analyse these relations, this book instead utilizes the concept of risk to provide an innovative perspective on Japan’s relations with China, North Korea and the US. The book elucidates how risk, potential harm and harm are faced disproportionately by certain groups in society. This is demonstrated by providing an empirically rich analysis of the domestic implications of security relations with China, North Korea and the United States through the presence of US troops in Okinawa. Beginning with a theoretical discussion of risk, it goes on to demonstrate how the concept of risk adds value to the study of international relations in three senses. First, the concept helps to break down the boundaries between the international and domestic. Second, the focus on risk and the everyday directs us to ask basic questions about the costs and benefits of a security policy meant to secure the national population. Third, what implications do these two points have for governance? The question is one of governance as Japan’s externally oriented security policy produces domestic insecurity shared disproportionately, not equally, as this volume makes clear. Developing the theory of risk as a tool for understanding international relations, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, Japanese politics, international relations and security studies, as well as to policy makers and practitioners working in the field.
Author : Leonard James Schoppa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231105910
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Bargaining with Japan written by Leonard James Schoppa and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schoppa documents how U.S. pressure has been misapplied in the past, insisting on the need for a strategy more informed about internal Japanese politics. While a strategy reliant on brute force is liable to backfire, he argues, one which works with domestic politics in Japan can succeed.
Author : David Arase
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134239017
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Japan's Foreign Aid written by David Arase and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a gap in the existing literature, this book analyzes the distinctive features of Japan’s development aid, especially technical co-operation, in comparison with other donors’ aid. Incorporating a wealth of research, it discusses whether Japan is behind other leading donor countries in rethinking its aid policy and whether it lacks transparency, sensitivity to recipient needs, and a coherent and coordinated policy that targets poverty. The volume assesses the nature and effectiveness of the administration of Japan’s aid, and explores the degree of involvement of private sector and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Including contributions from experts with direct experience with Japanese ODA, the book provides a wide range of recipient and donor viewpoints and presents important policy recommendations.
Author : Edward J. Lincoln
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815716389
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Japan written by Edward J. Lincoln and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan is the great economic success story of the postwar period, growing at unprecedented rates to become one of the world's most advanced industrial nations. But since the early 1970s, Asia's economic giant has had to contend with many of the problems encountered by Western economies--slower growth, increased unemployment, rapid changes in the financial and industrial sectors--problems that have permanently transformed its economy and pose crucial challenges for its leaders. In this book, Edward J. Lincoln discusses Japan's burst of growth and the complex interplay of demographic, cultural, economic, and political forces that shaped the subsequent emergence of large domestic imbalances. The motivation and impact of Tokyo's successive attempts to deal with slower growth receive special attention: ballooning government deficits that supported domestic growth in the late 1970s, a determined switch to austerity measures in the 1980s as a surging current-account surplus conveniently buoyed the economy, and as yet uncertain responses to the recent appreciation of the yen that has capped the external surpluses. Lincoln focuses on the changes experienced by Japan's financial institutions and their implications for international economic transactions. Slower growth and altered monetary flows have brought increasing domestic and international pressures for deregulating financial institutions, and the government has responded cautiously. The study analyzes the resulting tensions and crosscurrents within Japan and the strains that have developed in relations with the United States. It concludes with a lucid presentation of Japan's options for stimulating domestic demand through reducing private-sector savings, increasing investment, and raising government spending, as well as appropriate U.S. policies to promote these outcomes. Whatever policy decisions Japan makes in the next few years will be shaped by the economic forces and institutional framework Linco
Author : Steven Kent Vogel
Publisher : Brookings Inst Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815706304
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World written by Steven Kent Vogel and published by Brookings Inst Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reviews the past fifty years of the U.S.-Japan relationship and speculates about how it will evolve in the years to come.
Author : Kenneth Pyle
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586485679
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Japan Rising written by Kenneth Pyle and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than a half century of withdrawal from international politics, Japan is back. What are the implications for the United States?
Author : Elise K. Tipton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134113234
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Modern Japan written by Elise K. Tipton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly updated second edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, the book charts the country's evolution into a modernized, economic and political world power. Dealing with a broad and stimulating range of topics in an engaging style that will appeal to university students and the general reader, this book weaves social and political developments and balances a micro with a macro approach, introducing details about everyday lives that shed light on the bigger picture of major historical changes. Its systematic attention to gender issues, minorities and popular culture distinguishes this history and contributes to a sense of the complexity and diversity of modern Japanese society. Completely up-to-date and including many new images and a timeline that charts important events, this highly accessible and comprehensive textbook is an essential resource for students, scholars and teachers of Japanese history, politics culture and society.
Author : Army Library (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Japan written by Army Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James L. McClain
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393041569
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Japan, a Modern History written by James L. McClain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.
Author : Shigeto Tsuru
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521576215
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (762 download)
Download or read book Japan's Capitalism written by Shigeto Tsuru and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative account of Japan's economic resconstruction after World War II.
Author : Richard Katz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317467183
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Japan, the System That Soured written by Richard Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After seven long years of economic malaise, it is clear that something has gone awry in Japan. Unless Japan undertakes sweeping reform, official forecasts now warn, growth will steadily dwindle. How could the world's most acclaimed economic miracle have stumbled so badly? As this important book explains, the root of the problem is that Japan is still mired in the structures, policies, and mental habits of the 1950s-1960s. Four decades ago while in the "catch-up" phase of its economic evolution, policies that gave rise to "Japan, Inc". made a lot of sense. By the 1970s and 1980s, when Japan had become a more mature economy, "catch-up economics" had become passe, even counterproductive. Even worse, in response to the oil shocks, Japan increasingly used its industrial policy tools. not to promote "winners", but to shield "losers" from competition at home and abroad. Japan's well-known aversion to imports is part and parcel of this politically understandable, but economically self-defeating, pattern. The end result is a deformed "dual economy" unique in the industrial world. Now this "dualism" is sapping the strength of the entire economy. The protection of the weak is driving Japan's most inefficient companies to invest offshore instead of at home. Without sweeping reform, real recovery will prove elusive. The challenging thesis articulated in this book is receiving widespread media attention in the United States and Japan and is sure to provoke continuing debate and controversy.
Author : Jeff Kingston
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405191945
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Japan written by Jeff Kingston and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Japan: History, Politics and Social Change since the 1980s presents a comprehensive examination of the causes of the Japanese economic bubble in the late 1980s and the socio-political consequences of the recent financial collapse. Represents the only book to examine in depth the turmoil of Japan since Emperor Hirohito died in 1989, the Cold War ended, and the economy collapsed Provides an assessment of Japan's dramatic political revolution of 2009 Analyzes how risk has increased in Japan, undermining the sense of security and causing greater disparities in society Assesses Japan's record on the environment, the consequences of neo-liberal reforms, immigration policies, the aging society, the US alliance, the Imperial family, and the 'yakuza' criminal gangs Selected as a 2011 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE
Author : Richard H. Immerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199236968
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War written by Richard H. Immerman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War offers a broad reassessment of the period war based on new conceptual frameworks developed in the field of international history. Nearing the 25th anniversary of its end, the cold war now emerges as a distinct period in twentieth-century history, yet one which should be evaluated within the broader context of global political, economic, social, and cultural developments. The editors have brought together leading scholars in cold war history to offer a new assessment of the state of the field and identify fundamental questions for future research. The individual chapters in this volume evaluate both the extent and the limits of the cold war's reach in world history. They call into question orthodox ways of ordering the chronology of the cold war and also present new insights into the global dimension of the conflict. Even though each essay offers a unique perspective, together they show the interconnectedness between cold war and national and transnational developments, including long-standing conflicts that preceded the cold war and persisted after its end, or global transformations in areas such as human rights or economic and cultural globalization. Because of its broad mandate, the volume is structured not along conventional chronological lines, but thematically, offering essays on conceptual frameworks, regional perspectives, cold war instruments and cold war challenges. The result is a rich and diverse accounting of the ways in which the cold war should be positioned within the broader context of world history.
Author : Gary DeCoker
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807772089
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Japanese Education in an Era of Globalization written by Gary DeCoker and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the significant changes that have occurred in Japanese schools since the collapse of that nations economic bubble. Before the recession, Japan was the country that most others sought to emulate due to its students performance on standardized tests. Now, however, a different and more complicated picture of the Japanese education system emerges. This book places Japanese education in a global context, with particular attention given to how their education system is responding to changing expectations and pressures that emerge from rapid social change. Chapters written by respected scholars examine issues related to equality, academic achievement, privatization, population diversity, societal expectations, and the influence of the media, parents, and political movements. The research in this book will provide valuable lessons for policymakers and practitioners facing similar challenges.
Author : Yoneyuki Sugita
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498500234
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Japan Viewed from Interdisciplinary Perspectives written by Yoneyuki Sugita and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Asia-Pacific region greatly surpasses the world average. When the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is better realized, then the world’s largest free trade zone will be firmly established. It seems that this region has a very rosy outlook indeed; however, this region also faces a large number of serious problems such as: atomic energy in Japan, conflicts about East Asian regional integration, the decline of the Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA), and the TPP’s possible impact on the Japanese universal health insurance system. We now face a possible Sino-Japanese military conflict concerning the Senkaku Islands (or Diaoyutai Islands). In short, the Asia-Pacific region has both a rosy future and the potential influence from unstable and dangerous elements at work within the region at present. The main purpose of this book is to analyze historical development, whilst looking at the contemporary situation of Japan from interdisciplinary perspectives. This book asks three major questions: (1) Is this really globalization? (2) What are Japan’s relations with other Asian countries? (3) Do U.S.-Japan relations still matter? Fourteen leading scholars in their fields answer these questions from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Author : Kenneth J. Ruoff
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176166
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Japan's Imperial House in the Postwar Era, 1945-2019 written by Kenneth J. Ruoff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff has expanded upon and updated The People’s Emperor, his study of the monarchy’s role as a political, societal, and cultural institution in contemporary Japan. Many Japanese continue to define the nation’s identity through the imperial house, making it a window into Japan’s postwar history. Ruoff begins by examining the reform of the monarchy during the U.S. occupation and then turns to its evolution since the Japanese regained the power to shape it. To understand the monarchy’s function in contemporary Japan, the author analyzes issues such as the role of individual emperors in shaping the institution, the intersection of the monarchy with politics, the emperor’s and the nation’s responsibility for the war, nationalistic movements in support of the monarchy, and the remaking of the once-sacrosanct throne into a “people’s imperial house” embedded in the postwar culture of democracy. Finally, Ruoff examines recent developments, including the abdication of Emperor Akihito and the heir crisis, which have brought to the forefront the fragility of the imperial line under the current legal system, leading to calls for reform."
