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 Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity
1st Edition
By Susan Napier
February 01, 1996
Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century.The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature ...
The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System
1st Edition
By Junji Banno
December 18, 1995
The 1889 Meiji constitution: how it actually worked, the establishment of the Diet and the shifting roles and interests of the parties. A Japanese classic translated by one our leading authorities....
Japan: Beyond the End of History
1st Edition
By David Williams
December 08, 1993
In this analysis of Japan's policy-making, David Williams places his argument within the debates about Japanese political economy in the United States and Britain, debates previously polarised between `market' and `ministry' views. He presents Japanese-style nationalist development as a serious ...
Education Reform in Japan: A Case of Immobilist Politics
1st Edition
By Leonard James Schoppa
April 19, 1993
The Japanese education system, while widely praised in western countries, is subject to heavy criticism within Japan. Education Reform in Japan analyses this criticism, and explains why proposed reforms have failed. The author shows how the Japanese policy-making process can become paralysed when ...
Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Goodman, Kirsten Refsing
April 22, 1992
The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns.In Ideology and ...
History of Japanese Economic Thought
1st Edition
By Tessa Morris Suzuki
November 22, 1991
Economics, in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, Japanese thinkers had already developed, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a variety of interesting approaches to issues such as the causes of inflation, the ...
Britain's Educational Reform: A Comparison with Japan
1st Edition
By Mike Howarth
November 01, 1990
This book questions many of Britain's idiosyncratic attitudes towards education. Dimensions missing from Britain's recent reforms, but present in Japan are highlighted. The author argues that Britain could learn a lot from Japan in order to improve education and vocational training considerably....
Industrial Relations in Japan: The Peripheral Sector
1st Edition
By Norma Chalmers
August 22, 1989
The conventional picture of industry and industrial relations in Japan is of a number of very large firms providing extremely attractive working conditions for their happy and contented workforce. Norma Chalmers shows that there is in fact another, very different side to the picture, which occurs ...