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.
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. ...
Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeff Kingston
April 05, 2012
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced ...
A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto, Tuukka Toivonen
January 12, 2012
Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical ...
Ceremony and Ritual in Japan: Religious Practices in an Industrialized Society
1st Edition
Edited
By D. P. Martinez, Jan Van Bremen
November 08, 2011
Japan is one of the most urbanised and industrialised countries in the world. Yet the Japanese continue to practise a variety of religious rituals and ceremonies despite the high-tech, highly regimented nature of Japanese society. Ceremony and Ritual in Japan focuses on the traditional and ...
The Transformation of the Japanese Left: From Old Socialists to New Democrats
1st Edition
By Sarah Hyde
October 11, 2011
This book examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of ‘the old socialists’, the Japan Socialist Party, and in its place, the emergence of the Democratic Party of Japan as the leading opposition party. Sarah Hyde has produced an original book which looks...
Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute: Hokkaido-Sakhalin Relations
1st Edition
By Brad Williams
September 11, 2011
The unresolved territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the South Kuril Islands/Northern Territories remains the largest obstacle to concluding a peace treaty and fully normalising bilateral relations between the two nations. This book traces the evolution of transnational relations ...