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.
The US-Japan Alliance: Balancing Soft and Hard Power in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By David Arase, Tsuneo Akaha
April 21, 2011
Japan's use of Soft power in its international politics is as yet understudied. Soft power presents as many challenges as promises. This book explores the way Japan uses soft power in its relationship with the US, its Asian neighbours and Europe and aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of ...
Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Sorting and Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Hiroshi Ishida, David H. Slater
March 17, 2011
Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990’s, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far away. Social Class...
Living Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments
1st Edition
Edited
By André Sorensen, Carolin Funck
May 26, 2009
Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important ...
Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919
1st Edition
By Naoko Shimazu
April 29, 2009
This study explores the Japanese motivations in raising the proposal for racial equality at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. This is the first comprehensive analysis of an historically significant event which has not been given adequate scholarly attention in the past. The story which unfolds ...
The Japanese High School: Silence and Resistance
1st Edition
By Shoko Yoneyama
June 18, 2007
For large numbers of school students in Japan school has become a battle field. Recent violent events in schools, together with increasing drop-out rates and bullying are undermining stereotypes about the effectiveness of the Japanese education system. This incisive and original book looks at ...
Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime
1st Edition
By Aurelia George Mulgan
January 13, 2006
Written by the world’s leading expert in the field, this book examines the evolution of Japanese agricultural policy in the post-war period, focusing particularly from the 1970s onwards when both domestic and external pressures for reform began to intensify. The author explains how the MAFF has ...
Japan at Play
1st Edition
By Joy Hendry
December 12, 2005
This book explores the myth, so abused by the mass media, that the Japanese are a grey, anonymous mass of efficient, obedient workers. The articles shed light on a Japan outside officialdom, a lively Japan of tumultuous and independent thought, inefficient and aesthetic, pleasure-loving, aggressive...
The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century
1st Edition
By André Sorensen
October 28, 2004
During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the planning ideas and methods of many other...
The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact: A Diplomatic History 1941-1945
1st Edition
By Boris Slavinsky
December 18, 2003
The neutrality pact between Japan and the Soviet Union, signed in April 1941, lapsed only nine months before its expiry date of April 1946 when the Soviet Union attacked Japan. Japan's neutrality had enabled Stalin to move Far Eastern forces to the German front where they contributed significantly ...
Japanese Electoral Politics: Creating a New Party System
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Reed
July 29, 2003
The old Japanese single-party system collapsed in 1993, but a new system has not yet fully evolved. Following the most significant party reform in Japanese history, this book analyses the most recent national elections, examining voter behaviour and how it is influenced. It provides a comprehensive...
The Voluntary and Non-Profit Sector in Japan: The Challenge of Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Osborne
July 29, 2003
The voluntary and non-profit sector is an important and emerging feature of Japanese society. It is a response both to the changing nature of this society and to political and social trends that have encouraged the Japanese government to see this sector as a potential provider of public services. ...
Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese presence in Asia, Europe, and America
1st Edition
By Harumi Befu, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis
December 23, 2002
Globalizing Japan explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday basis. Both consciously and unconsciously, we regularly come into contact with Japan's industrial and cultural globalization, ...