The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
About the Book Series
This well-established series with one of the pre-eminent institutions for Japanese Studies in Europe is being re-launched to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the subject at Sheffield with a new editorial team to reflect the range of disciplines and approaches being pursued in Japanese Studies today. Contributions are actively sought from both early career and established scholars seeking to present cutting-edge research on topics related to contemporary, modern and pre-modern Japan in the humanities and social sciences, with cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary work being particularly welcome. Informal enquiries about potential publications can be made to the series editors, Dr Saori Shibata and Dr Thomas McAuley. For the submission of formal proposals please contact Stephanie Rogers at [email protected].
The Politics of Conformity in Japan
1st Edition
By Yukiko Nishikawa
June 13, 2025
This book explores the concept of conformity pressure or dōchō atsuryoku (同調圧力) in Japanese society and unveil its effects on law, politics and business, and vice versa. Conformity pressure is explored from a unique perspective, expanding on traditional psychological analyses by highlighting how ...
Japan’s Response to History Problems: National Interests, Ideologies, and Decision-Making Processes
1st Edition
By Karol Zakowski
May 27, 2025
This book examines the decision-making processes behind the formulation and evolution of the Japanese government’s official stance regarding diplomatic problems connected with the history of Japan’s territorial expansionism in East Asia. Based on neoclassical realism and historical institutionalism...
New Perspectives on Peacetime Anglo–Japanese Military Relations: Old Friends, New Partners
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas French
May 27, 2025
This book examines the peacetime military relationship between the United Kingdom and Japan spanning partnerships and interactions from the 1860s to the present day. Reflecting the multiple changes in the power dynamics, relations, and nature of the military links between the U.K. and Japan over ...
Expatriates in Japanese Firms: Experiences and Expectations of Workers from China and Vietnam
1st Edition
By Chie Yorozu
January 29, 2024
Focusing on the experiences of foreign employees working in Japanese firms, this book identifies the trends and realities facing both expatriates and firms in the current landscape of the Japanese labour market. By utilising interview data from both expatriates and Japanese HR staff, this study ...
Narrative Management in Corporate Japan: Investor Relations as Pseudo-Reform
1st Edition
By Chie Yorozu
June 30, 2020
Scandals and failures in some of the best known international Japanese-owned companies have shown that there is sometimes a considerable difference between the public and internal narratives of Japanese firms. This book explores the extent to which Japanese firms’ public claims reflect wider ...
EU–Japan Relations and the Crisis of Multilateralism
1st Edition
By Julie Gilson
December 09, 2019
Presenting the history of relations between the European Union and Japan, this book explains the origins and significance of the momentous 2018 Economic Partnership Agreement and its parallel Strategic Partnership Agreement. Set within the historical context of the 1991 Hague Declaration and ...
Hegemony and the US‒Japan Alliance
1st Edition
By Misato Matsuoka
December 05, 2019
It is widely recognised that the increasing importance of the US‒Japan alliance is strongly linked to emerging threats in the Asia Pacific, with China’s rise and the ambitions of North Korea having brought the two allies closer together. This book, however, seeks to question whether these factors ...
Risk and Securitization in Japan: 1945-60
1st Edition
By Piers R. Williamson
October 23, 2017
Since the early 1990s, there has been an emphasis in international relations theory on the shift from a Cold War rationality of ‘threat’, to a post-Cold War rationality of ‘risk’. However, in Risk and Securitization in Japan, 1945-1960, Piers R. Williamson argues that this assumption of a ...
The Politics of War Memory in Japan: Progressive Civil Society Groups and Contestation of Memory of the Asia-Pacific War
1st Edition
By Kamila Szczepanska
May 25, 2017
Since the 1990s, questions of Japanese wartime conduct, apologies for aggression, and compensation to former victims of the country’s imperial policies, have been brought to the fore of national and regional politics. The state is undoubtedly the most important actor in the process of memory ...
Japan's Security Identity: From a Peace-State to an International-State
1st Edition
By Bhubhindar Singh
May 24, 2017
Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a significant change in Japanese security policy, as Japan’s security identity has shifted from a peace state, to an international state. In this book, Bhubhindar Singh argues that from the 1990s onwards, the Japanese security policymaking elite ...
Japan's Relations with North Korea and the Recalibration of Risk
1st Edition
By Ra Mason
May 03, 2017
North Korea’s contemporary relations with Japan have been fraught with tension. Tactics employed by Pyongyang have included abductions of Japanese citizens, missile launches over Japanese territory, intrusions into Japanese sovereign waters, and nuclear tests in defiance of Japanese and ...
Governing Insecurity in Japan: The Domestic Discourse and Policy Response
1st Edition
Edited
By Wilhelm Vosse, Reinhard Drifte, Verena Blechinger-Talcott
December 20, 2016
Since the end of the Cold War, Japan's security environment has changed significantly. While, on the global level, the United States is still Japan's most important security partner, the nature of the partnership has changed as a result of shifting demands from the United States, new international ...