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  • The Abe Experiment and the Future of Japan

    Don’t Repeat History

    by Junji Banno, Jiro Yamaguchi ...
    Series series Politics, Security and Society in Asia Pacific
    With an author’s foreword written on the day that the Abe cabinet decided to ‘revise the Japanese Constitution by reinterpretation’ (Tuesday, 1 July 2014), this timely examination of Japan’s post-war history by two leading historians committed to democratic politics is highly instructive and prompts serious reflection by anyone concerned with the future of Japan. Originally published in Japan by ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Modern Japan

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Goto-Jones ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all the way through to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques. In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have. It also moves the discussion beyond the theories, principles, and laws that have been so often debated to the actual empirical consequences of affirmative action in the United States and in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, ... Read more

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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

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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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  • 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

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  • 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

    $27.19 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

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  • Maoism In India

    by Arun Srivastava ...
    Maoism in india is an attempt to study and analyse the movement. already a number of left intellectuals and scholars have studied the movement and written about it. my attempt has been to find out the difference between the naxalite and cpi (maoist) movements. is there any difference as such? though the naxalite movement took birth in naxalbari in 1967, it is still striving to find a sustainable ... Read more

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  • Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism

    by Helen Hardacre, Keigo Komamura, Weitseng Chen, Erik Esselstrom, Saburo Horikawa, Rintaro Kuramochi, Levi McLaughlin, Mari Miura, Yoshihide Soeya0, Makiko Ueda1, Christian Winkler2, Tatsuhiko Yamamoto3, Koichi Nakano4, Sung Ho Kim5, Timothy S. George6, Franziska Seraphim8 ...
    Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume which examines the history of Japan’s constitutional debates, key legal decisions and interpretations, the history and variety of activism, and activists’ ties to party politics and to fellow activists ... Read more

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  • Former Prime Ministers in Japan

    Power, Influence and the Role of Informal Politics

    by Hugo Dobson, Karin Narita, Caroline Rose ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Despite growing international interest in the position and power of the Japanese prime minister, there is little existing research on what happens after these figures leave office. Examining both pre-war and post-war Japan, this book investigates what Japanese prime ministers have done after stepping down and what influence they have ... Read more

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  • Nationalism, Political Realism and Democracy in Japan

    The thought of Masao Maruyama

    by Fumiko Sasaki ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Masao Maruyama was the most influential and respected political thinker in post-WWII Japan. He believed that the collective mentality, inherent in the traditional Japanese way of thinking, was a key reason for the defeat in WWII and was convinced that such thought needed to be modernized. In this book Fumiko Sasaki argues that the cause of the prolonged political, economic and social decline in ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD