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].
Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era: Re-fabricating Lifetime Employment Relations
1st Edition
By Peter Matanle
January 20, 2016
First Published in 2004. This book provides an in-depth examination of one of the most central and defining aspects of capitalist modernity in contemporary Japan-the lifetime employment system. It investigates the key themes surrounding the system, including the work attitudes and values of ...
Nikkeiren and Japanese Capitalism
1st Edition
By John Crump
December 17, 2015
This book provides a history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development in Japan. The author challenges the principal interpretations of how the economy functions revealing a darker side of Japanese capitalism in his ...
Nationalism and Power Politics in Japan's Relations with China: A Neoclassical Realist Interpretation
1st Edition
By Yew Meng Lai
July 31, 2015
Despite flourishing economic interactions and deepening interdependence, the current political and diplomatic relationship between Japan and China remains lukewarm at best. Indeed, bilateral relations reached an unprecedented nadir during the spring of 2005, and again more recently in autumn 2012, ...
Regional Risk and Security in Japan: Whither the everyday
1st Edition
By Glenn D. Hook, Ra Mason, Paul O'Shea
May 27, 2015
Japan’s unusual position in the realm of international politics encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia, both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst international relations theory offers a ...
Decoding Boundaries in Contemporary Japan: The Koizumi Administration and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Glenn Hook
February 27, 2015
This book sheds light on the changing nature of contemporary Japan by decoding a range of political, economic and social boundaries. With a focus on the period following the inauguration of Prime Minister Koizumi Junichirō, the book grows out of a recognition that, with the Koizumi administration ...
Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity
1st Edition
Edited
By Glen D. Hook, Richard Siddle
December 22, 2014
Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okinawa from the perspective of political economy and society. It combines a focus on structure and subjectivity as a way to analyze Okinawa, Okinawans and their relationship with global, regional and ...
The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan
1st Edition
By Takeda Hiroko
August 12, 2014
This book analyzes the political economy of reproduction and its role in the process of Japanese modernization. Hiroko analyzes state attempts and policies to intervene into women's bodies and everyday lives to integrate them into the Japanese political economy. Based on Foucault's concept of ...
Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan
1st Edition
By Richard M. Siddle
April 10, 2014
Once thought of as a 'vanishing people', the Ainu are now reasserting both their culture and their claims to be the 'indigenous' people of Japan. Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan is the first major study to trace the outlines of Ainu history. It explores the ways in which competing versions ...
Race and Migration in Imperial Japan
1st Edition
By Michael Weiner
January 30, 2014
A high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan, with its political discourse and with the lexicon of post-war Japanese scholarship. This book examines underlying assumptions. The author provides an analysis of racial discourse in Japan, its articulation and ...
Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry
1st Edition
By Ralph Paprzycki
October 23, 2013
Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry analyses changes in production networks in the Japanese electronics industry. Japan's post-war success in the assembly industries is frequently attributed to innovative approaches to the organization of production: Japanese assemblers have ...
Japan and the G7/8: 1975-2002
1st Edition
By Hugo Dobson
October 23, 2013
This book analyses Japan's international relations and participation in the multilateral forum, the G8, since its creation in 1975. The author explores the motivation of the Japanese government and non-governmental actor's aims and objectives and examines how and to what extent they have been ...
Japan and Britain at War and Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Hugo Dobson, Nobuko Kosuge
February 14, 2013
Since the events of the Second World War the relationship between Japan and Britain has undergone an extraordinary transformation, from bitter conflict to peaceful alliance. Japan and Britain at War and Peace is a multilayered examination of this bilateral relationship with an emphasis on the issue...