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  • Meltdown

    Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

    by Yoichi Funabashi ...
    The human drama, and long-term lessons, of the Fukushima nuclear disasterThe Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 presented an enormous challenge even to Japan, one of the world's most advanced and organized countries. Failures at all levels-of both the government and the private sector-worsened the human and economic impact of the disaster and ensured that the consequences would continue for ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Japan's International Agenda

    by Yoichi Funabashi ...
    What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. Its foreign policy has thus evolved in a piecemeal manner, around the question of managing foreign pressures. To date, policy has been largely developed by bureaucrats, who are traditionally responsible for public policy in Japan. The ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Japan’s Population Implosion

    The 50 Million Shock

    Edited by Yoichi Funabashi ...
    This cutting edge collection examines Japan’s population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan’s social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy. Considering the failures of past Japanese policies from the perspective of population, national land, and politics, it argues that the inability of past ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Reinventing Japan

    New Directions in Global Leadership

    Edited by Martin Fackler, Yoichi Funabashi ...
    Highly readable yet deeply researched, this book serves as an essential guide to the many ways in which Japan has risen to become one of the world's most creative and innovative societies.During its so-called Lost Decades, Japan has quietly reinvented itself from a nation with an economy playing catch-up into a global leader in innovation and creativity, one whose "soft power" extends from ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism

    Japan and the World Order

    Edited by Yoichi Funabashi, Professor G. John Ikenberry ...
    A 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleJapan's challenges and opportunities in a new era of uncertaintyHenry Kissinger wrote a few years ago that Japan has been for seven decades an important anchor of Asian stability and global peace and prosperity. However, Japan has only played this anchoring role within an American-led liberal international order built from the ashes of World War II. Now that ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Critical Review of the Abe Administration

    Politics of Conservatism and Realism

    Edited by Yoichi Funabashi, Koji Nakakita ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The second Abe administration, which lasted for seven years and eight months, turned out to be the longest administration in Japan’s constitutional history. What factors contributed to its remarkable longevity? What accomplishments and enduring legacies did this administration achieve during its tenure?Originally published in Bungeishunju in Japanese, this book examines policies pursued by the ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Examining Japan's Lost Decades

    Edited by Yoichi Funabashi, Barak Kushner ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This book examines five features of Japan’s ‘Lost Decades’: the speed of the economic decline in Japan compared to Japan’s earlier global prowess; a rapidly declining population; considerable political instability and failed reform attempts; shifting balances of power in the region and changing relations with Asian neighbouring nations; and the lingering legacy of World War Two. Addressing the ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • The Democratic Party of Japan in Power

    Challenges and Failures

    Edited by Yoichi Funabashi, Koichi Nakano ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    When the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in September 2009, Japanese citizens expected the imminent arrival of a new political era, characterized by a two-party system. However, in addition to the triple disasters of March 2011, the DPJ faced numerous difficulties arising from its controversial policies and massive party defections following the government’s consumption tax hike ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Article II Mandate

    Forging a Stronger Economic Alliance between the United States and Japan

    by Matthew P. Goodman, Yoichi Funabashi ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    To explore opportunities for greater economic cooperation between the United States and Japan in third countries, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington and the Asia Pacific Initiative (API) in Tokyo embarked on a joint research project using a case-study approach to examine four countries (Myanmar, Vietnam, India, and South Korea) and two institutional ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

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  • Japan

    The Precarious Future

    Edited by Frank Baldwin, Anne Allison ...
    Series Book 1 - Possible Futures
    On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and ... Read more

    $35.19 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

  • Changing Politics in Japan

    by Ikuo Kabashima, Gill Steel ...
    Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture—and Gill Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD