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  • The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism

    Edited by Sébastien Lechevalier ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    In the 1980s the performance of Japan’s economy was an international success story, and led many economists to suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today, however, the dominant view is that Japan is inescapably on a downward slope. Rather than focusing on the evolution of the performance of Japanese capitalism, this book reflects on the changes that it has experienced over the past ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Japan's Postwar

    Edited by Michael Lucken, Anne Bayard-Sakai, Emmanuel Lozerand ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting "postwar" to be the years directly proceeding World War II. However, the contributors to this book take a unique approach to the concept of the postwar epoch and treat it as a network of historical time frames from the modern period, and connect these time capsules to the war to ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan

    by Prof J A A Stockwin, J. A. A. Stockwin ...
    The politics of Japan are less widely reported than its economics. Most people are aware of the economic 'miracle' following the Second World War, whereby Japan became the second largest economy in the world after the United States, and the economic stagnation of the early 1990s is also well known. But it is difficult to make sense of these phenomena without a knowledge of the political system and ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Collected Writings of J. A. A. Stockwin

    Part 1

    by J.A.A. Stockwin ...
    Series Book 1 - Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan
    The volume opens with a detailed autobiographical sketch of the author's original 'meeting with Japan', which began in 1961after taking up a post at ANU, Canberra (the result of a successful response to an advert in the Manchester Guardian). After twenty-one years in Australia, Arthur Stockwin moved back to the UK to take the chair of the then recently-established Nissan Institute of Japanese ... Read more

    $666.48 CAD

  • Japan's Multilayered Democracy

    by Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Alon Levkowitz, Lionel Babicz, Wered Ben-Sade, Michal Daliot-Bul, Ofer Feldman, Ayala Klemperer-Markman, Kurt Radtke, Ben-Ami Shillony0, Kiichi Tachibana1, J.A.A. Stockwin2, Nissim Otmazgin4, Eyal Ben-Ari5 ...
    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    This book introduces a multilayered approach to the study of democracy, combining specific knowledge of Japan with theoretical insights from the literature on democratization. It examines different aspects of Japanese democracy—historical, institutional, and sociocultural—to provide a conscious understanding of the nature and practice of democracy, both in Japan and beyond. The book's chapters ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System

    by Junji Banno ...
    Translated by JAA Stockwin ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    The 1889 Meiji constitution: how it actually worked, the establishment of the Diet and the shifting roles and interests of the parties. A Japanese classic translated by one our leading authorities. ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

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    From samurai to Sony

    by Curtis Andressen ...
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    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to Japanese Politics

    by Louis D. Hayes ...
    Introduction to Japanese Politics, now in its fully updated sixth edition, is a comprehensive and current review of political and public policy developments in Japan. Since the previous edition, Japan’s economic policy has undergone significant change with a prolonged period of deflation having altered the dynamics of the Japanese economy. At the same time, the Abe administration has expanded ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • 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

    $118.99 CAD

  • Comparative Public Administration

    Edited by J.A. Chandler ...
    This accessible introduction to the system of public administration uses a clear, country by country analysis to the contemporary system of public administration and management in a number of significant countries. This text examines the extent to which new public management, politicians and public opinion can influence bureaucracies in various countries; in addition, it explores the role of ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Japan Transformed

    Political Change and Economic Restructuring

    by Michael F. Thies, Frances Rosenbluth ...
    With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains a formidable economy and its political system is healthier than at any time in its ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Modern Japan

    A Social and Political History

    by Elise Tipton ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    This thoroughly revised and updated third 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, Tipton links everyday lives with major historical developments, charting the country’s evolution into a modernized, economic and political world power.Drawing on the ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD