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'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 ...
Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies
1st Edition
By Helene Bowen Raddeker
February 29, 2016
Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the state even in the face of death.Through ...
Japanese Science Fiction: A View of a Changing Society
1st Edition
By Robert Matthew
September 08, 2015
After the Meiji Restoration of 1868 Japan modernized rapidly, transforming itself perhaps more quickly than any other country in history. However, the change was not without its conflicts, many of them still unresolved as the pleasures of modern society vie with a respect for the traditional ...
Modern Japan: A Social and Political History
3rd Edition
By Elise Tipton
August 26, 2015
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, ...
Social Inequality in Japan
1st Edition
By Sawako Shirahase
July 31, 2015
Japan was the first Asian country to become a mature industrial society, and throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, was viewed as an ‘all-middle-class society’. However since the 1990s there have been growing doubts as to the real degree of social equality in Japan, particularly in the context of ...
Green Politics in Japan
1st Edition
By Lam Peng-Er
June 08, 2015
An important comparative study of Japanese politics that reveals that green issues have yet to displace the traditional urban politics of post-industrial Japan. This is unlike the rise of green parties and politics in Europe. Unlike Europe, it seems that political values in Japan are still ...
Japanese Economic Development: Theory and practice
3rd Edition
By Penny Francks
May 27, 2015
This fully revised and updated third edition of Japanese Economic Development looks at Japan's economic history from the nineteenth century through to World War II, recasting analysis of Japan’s economic past in the light fresh theoretical perspectives in the study of economic history and ...
An Emerging Non-Regular Labour Force in Japan: The Dignity of Dispatched Workers
1st Edition
By Huiyan Fu
February 27, 2015
Like many industrialised nations, the current employment trend in Japan centres on diversification of the labour market with an increased use of temporary labour. Among a wide range of non-regular labour arrangements, haken are a newly legalised category of non-regular workers who are typically ...