Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
About the Book Series
Despite Japan's importance in the modern world, much about Japan remains unknown outside the country. This series provides informative, original, detailed studies on a variety of aspects of modern Japan.
It has established itself as an authoritative available source of scholarship on all aspects of Japan. Publishing policy is directed by some of the most respected names in Japanese studies.
Understanding Japanese Society
6th Edition
By Joy Hendry, Emma E. Cook
October 06, 2025
In this welcome new sixth edition of the bestselling textbook Understanding Japanese Society, Joy Hendry and Emma E. Cook take the reader into the heart of Japanese life. Providing a clear and accessible introduction to Japanese ways of thinking, which does not require any previous knowledge of the...
Nippon Kaigi: Political Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
By Thierry Guthmann
July 30, 2025
This book examines political nationalism in Japan through an in-depth analysis of the organisation, ideology and influence of Nippon Kaigi, the most significant nationalist pressure group in contemporary Japan. Starting with a review of political nationalism in Japan since 1945, the book then ...
Becoming a Farmer in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
By Niccolò Lollini
January 30, 2025
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an agricultural cooperative running a training programme for aspiring farmers, this book explores the possibilities of agrarian and land-based modes of livelihood in contemporary Japan. The book is organised around the four key hurdles faced by new ...
A Sociology of Journalism in Japan: The Last Empire of the Press
1st Edition
By César Castellvi
May 07, 2024
This book represents an in-depth analysis of journalism in Japan during the golden era of the daily press and the gradual introduction of digital technology starting from the mid-1980s to the late 2010s. By presenting firsthand testimony from journalists and field notes collected from fieldwork in ...
Dōwa Policy and Japanese Politics
1st Edition
By Ian Neary
May 31, 2023
This book locates the development of Dōwa policy projects within their historical and political context, offering examples of human rights protection in a non-Western society. Charting Dōwa policy from its origins in the pre-war period to its revival after 1945 up to the turn of the 21st century, ...
Fall-out from Fukushima: Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation and Legal Protection After the Triple Meltdown
1st Edition
By Giulia de Togni
May 31, 2023
This book shows how the Fukushima plaintiffs have challenged narratives of safety and risk containment produced by TEPCO and the Japanese government through offering new empirical data on risk perceptions and life choices of some nuclear evacuees. Considering the Fukushima evacuees’ disappearance ...
The Failure of Political Opposition in Japan: Implications for Democracy and a Vision of the Future
1st Edition
By Arthur Stockwin
October 26, 2022
This book explores the party politics and political system of Japan, which since 1955 has been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), with a particular focus on the evolution of LDP governments between the 1990s and 2010s. Through its evaluation of the legacy of post-war opposition ...
Gradual Institutional Change in Japan: Kantei Leadership under the Abe Administration
1st Edition
By Karol Zakowski
August 01, 2022
This book analyses institutional reforms implemented by Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, under his second administration from 2012 to 2020. Also examined is the evolution in the role of such actors in Japanese politics as bureaucrats, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) factions, and ...
Child Guidance Centres in Japan: Alternative Care, Social Work, and the Family
1st Edition
By Michael Rivera King
April 29, 2022
In contemporary Japan, 85% of children in alternative care remain housed in large welfare institutions, as opposed to family-based foster care. This publication examines how Japan has been isolated from global discourse on alternative care, urging a shift in social work and alternative care ...
New Directions in Japan’s Security: Non-U.S. Centric Evolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Midford, Wilhelm Vosse
April 29, 2022
While the US-Japan alliance has strengthened since the end of the Cold War, Japan has, almost unnoticed, been building security ties with other partners, in the process reducing the centrality of the US in Japan’s security. This book explains why this is happening. Japan pursued security ...
Rethinking Locality in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonja Ganseforth, Hanno Jentzsch
July 20, 2021
This book inquires what is meant when we say "local" and what "local" means in the Japanese context. Through the window of locality, it enhances an understanding of broader political and socio-economic shifts in Japan. This includes demographic change, electoral and administrative reform, rural ...
Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Irena Hayter, George T. Sipos, Mark Williams
June 17, 2021
This book approaches the concept of tenkō (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese experience in postwar debates. Tenkō connotes the expressions of ideological conversion performed by members of the Japanese Communist Party...