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.
Japan and the New Silk Road: Diplomacy, Development and Connectivity
1st Edition
By Nikolay Murashkin
December 13, 2021
This book presents a study of Japanese involvement in post-Soviet Central Asia since the independence of these countries in 1991, examining the reasons for progress and stagnation in this multi-lateral relationship.Featuring interviews with decision-makers and experts from Japan, China, Kazakhstan,...
The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan: The Realities of ‘Power’
1st Edition
By Kōji Nakakita
December 13, 2021
This book provides a thorough analysis of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP), from a variety of perspectives including its factions, party presidential elections, the distribution of posts, national elections, local organisations, the policy making process and partner organisations. ...
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...
Japan’s New Ruralities: Coping with Decline in the Periphery
1st Edition
Edited
By Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ralph Lützeler, Sebastian Polak-Rottmann
February 21, 2020
Seeking to challenge negative perceptions within Japanese media and politics on the future of the countryside, the contributors to this book present a counterargument to the inevitable demise of rural society. Contrary to the dominant argument, which holds outmigration and demographic hyper-aging ...
The Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature: Metaphors of Christianity
1st Edition
By Massimiliano Tomasi
August 08, 2019
The first book-length study to explore the links between Christianity and modern Japanese literature, this book analyses the process of conversion of nine canonical authors, unveiling the influence that Christianity had on their self-construction, their oeuvre and, ultimately, the trajectory of ...
Friendship and Work Culture of Women Managers in Japan: Tokyo After Ten
1st Edition
By Swee-Lin Ho
June 04, 2019
Drawing on ethnographic data gathered from fieldwork spanning a 15-year period, this book offers new insights into understanding the lives and experiences of women managers in Japan. Based on empirical case studies, it explores the ways in which professional women in Tokyo creatively mobilize ...
Japan’s World Power: Assessment, Outlook and Vision
1st Edition
Edited
By Guibourg Delamotte
March 20, 2019
Since the end of the 1960s, Japan’s power in the world has largely been linked to its economic successes, while it has pursued a decidedly pacifist post-war foreign policy. Recently, however, there has been talk of Constitutional reform, especially since the new security legislation of 2016. ...
The Democratic Party of Japan in Power: Challenges and Failures
1st Edition
Edited
By Yoichi Funabashi, Koichi Nakano
January 03, 2019
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 ...
Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
By Emma E. Cook
October 26, 2017
Over the past two decades, Japan’s socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes prompted by both a long recession and the relaxation of particular labour laws in the 1990s and 2000s. Within this context, "freeters", part-time workers aged between fifteen and thirty-four who are not ...
Japan's International Fisheries Policy: Law, Diplomacy and Politics Governing Resource Security
1st Edition
By Roger D. Smith
August 09, 2017
Few nations rely upon the ocean as much as Japan for livelihood, culture and transport. The seas have long played a vital role for the Japanese, helping to support the economic and social life of a nation that possesses few resources and little arable land, and sustain a population that has nearly ...
Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan: Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture
1st Edition
By Gitte Marianne Hansen
June 30, 2017
From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. Mirroring this, women’s self-directed violence has increasingly been thematised in diverse Japanese narrative and visual culture. ...