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.
Ozawa Ichirō and Japanese Politics: Old Versus New
1st Edition
By Aurelia George Mulgan
June 07, 2017
Ozawa Ichirō was the axis on which Japanese politics turned for more than two decades. He helped to reshape the electoral system, political funding rules, the evolution of the party system, the nature of executive government, the roles and powers of bureaucrats, and the conduct of parliamentary and...
Labour Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy: Worker Protection under Neoliberal Globalisation
1st Edition
By Hiroaki Richard Watanabe
May 25, 2017
Japan and Italy encountered severe economic problems in the early 1990s, and the governments had to deal with those issues effectively under the increasing neoliberal pressures of globalisation. In this context, labour market deregulation was considered an effective tool to cope with those economic...
Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan
1st Edition
By Robert J. Pekkanen, Yutaka Tsujinaka, Hidehiro Yamamoto
May 25, 2017
Although local neighborhood associations are found in many countries, Japan’s are distinguished by their ubiquity, scope of activities, and very high participation rates, making them important for the study of society and politics. Most Japanese belong to one local neighborhood association or ...
The Organisational Dynamics of University Reform in Japan: International Inside Out
1st Edition
By Jeremy Breaden
May 24, 2017
For several decades internationalisation has been a cornerstone of both Japanese government higher education policy and approaches to reform at an institutional level, but Japan has still not managed to lose its reputation as a somewhat reclusive member of the global academic community. Consensus ...
Life Course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Holthus, Wolfram Manzenreiter
April 20, 2017
Much of the existing literature on happiness in Japan has been produced in the field of economics and psychology and is quantitative in nature. Here, for the first time, a group of anthropologists and sociologists jointly analyze the state of happiness and unhappiness in Japan among varying social ...
Militarisation and Demilitarisation in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
By Glenn D. Hook
August 03, 2016
The intertwined issues of Japanese `identity' and `normality' are at the centre of the tension between internal and external pressures on Japanese defence and security policies. With chapters on peace thought, the militarisation and demilitarisation of language as well as the `hard' aspects of the ...
Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales, Romit Dasgupta
June 17, 2016
The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship, which, in the context of significant socio-economic and demographic shifts since the 1990s, have become increasingly visible in public ...
Japan's Modern History, 1857-1937: A New Political Narrative
1st Edition
By Junji Banno
June 17, 2016
Over the course of the period 1857 to 1937 in Japan, six distinct stages can be identified as the country moved from Shogun rule and its subsequent overthrow, from industrialisation and investment to the Meiji Constitution and then from Taishō democracy to Shōwa fascism. In this book, Junji Banno ...
Growing a Japanese Science City: Communication in Scientific Research
1st Edition
By James W. Dearing
June 03, 2016
Tsukuba Science City is the world's most ambitious attempt to `turbocharge' scientific collaboration. James W. Dearing looks at the political and economic context within which the plans for Tsukuba were laid, how those plans changed during the process of implementation, and at the functioning of ...
Japan's Emerging Youth Policy: Getting Young Adults Back to Work
1st Edition
By Tuukka Toivonen
May 31, 2016
From the 1960s onwards, Japan’s rapid economic growth coincided with remarkably smooth transitions from school to work and with internationally low levels of youth unemployment. However, this changed dramatically in the 1990s, and by the 2000s, youth employment came to be recognized as a serious ...
Japan's Early Parliaments, 1890-1905: Structure, Issues and Trends
1st Edition
By Andrew Fraser, R. H. P. Mason, Philip Mitchell
May 20, 2016
Japan's Early Parliaments, 1890-1905 is the first detailed study of the early history of the Japanese Diet, providing a thorough discussion of the origins of the Japanese parliament, still the central institution of Japanese politics, and its development during this formative period. Drawn from ...
The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Sébastien Lechevalier
April 21, 2016
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 ...