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.
Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France: When the Opposition Governs
1st Edition
By Koichi Nakano
February 14, 2014
Decentralization is a curious policy for a central government to pursue. If politics is essentially about the struggle for power, why would anyone want to give away the power that one struggled for and won? This book argues that it is precisely party competition in search of power that propels ...
Policy Entrepreneurship and Elections in Japan: A Political Biogaphy of Ozawa Ichirō
1st Edition
By Takashi Oka
February 14, 2014
Ozawa Ichirō is one of the most important figures in Japanese politics, having held the positions of Chief Secretary of the Liberal Democrat Party and, after defection from the LDP, President of the Democratic Party of Japan. Ozawa has distinctive ideas that set him apart from the average Japanese ...
Life in a Japanese Women's College: Learning to be Ladylike
1st Edition
By Brian J. McVeigh
February 13, 2014
One third of the Japanese female workforce are 'office ladies' and their training takes place in the many women's junior colleges. Office ladies are low-wage, low-status secretaries who have little or no job security.Brian J. McVeigh draws on his experience as a teacher at one such institution to ...
Labour Migration from China to Japan: International Students, Transnational Migrants
1st Edition
By Gracia Liu-Farrer
November 08, 2013
Chinese students are the largest international student population in the world, and Japan attracts more of them than any other country. Since the mid-1980s when China opened the door to let private citizens out and Japan began to let more foreigners in, over 300 thousand Chinese have arrived in ...
Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
1st Edition
By Sharon Kinsella
November 04, 2013
Japanese society in the 1990s and 2000s produced a range of complicated material about sexualized schoolgirls, and few topics have caught the imagination of western observers so powerfully. While young Japanese girls had previously been portrayed as demure and obedient, in training to become the ...
On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass
1st Edition
By Carolyn S. Stevens
October 23, 2013
The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a ...
Technology and Industrial Growth in Pre-War Japan: The Mitsubishi-Nagasaki Shipyard 1884-1934
1st Edition
By Yukiko Fukasaku
October 23, 2013
This book aims to discredit the myth that has the `unique cultural traits' of the Japanese as the key to the country's success, arguing that the more realisable foundation of long-term investment in training and research is responsible.The book looks at the development of Japan in the pre-War ...
The Race to Commercialize Biotechnology: Molecules, Market and the State in Japan and the US
1st Edition
By Steven Collins
May 01, 2013
This comparative study looks at the early development of biotechnology in the US and Japan. Drawing on primary and secondary sources it traces the historical roots of recombinant DNA technology, discusses the tensions between regulation and promotional policies and identifies the major actors and ...
The Changing Japanese Political System: The Liberal Democratic Party and the Ministry of Finance
1st Edition
By Harumi Hori
November 01, 2012
Japan’s political stability was shattered after the general election of July 1993 when the conservative Liberal Democratic Party’s thirty-eight year domination ended in defeat. This book examines the impact the 1993 general election had on Japanese politics. Although the LDP regained the position ...
Japan's Sea Lane Security: A Matter of Life and Death?
1st Edition
By Euan Graham
September 10, 2012
This is the first major English-language study to explore the broad and longstanding connections between Japan’s national security and the safety of its sea lanes. Tracing issues from pre-and post-1945 eras, the book explores how Japan’s concerns with sea lane protection have developed across such ...
Cold War Frontiers in the Asia-Pacific: Divided Territories in the San Francisco System
1st Edition
By Kimie Hara
July 11, 2012
After World War II, many regional conflicts emerged in the Asia-Pacific, such as the divided Korean peninsula, the Cross-Taiwan Strait, the ‘Northern Territories’, (Southern Kuriles) Takeshima (Dokdo), Senkaku (Diaoyu) and the Spratly (Nansha) islands problems. These and other disputes, such as the...
Institutions, Incentives and Electoral Participation in Japan: Cross-Level and Cross-National Perspectives
1st Edition
By Yusaku Horiuchi
July 11, 2012
American and European political scientists have claimed that subnational elections almost always record lower voter turnout than national elections. In Japan, however, municipal elections often record considerably higher turnout than national elections, particularly in small towns and villages. ...