The central objective of this study is to describe and analyse the politics of security policy change in Japan and its significance to the Asia-Pacific region as a whole.
The contents of this book: 1. The 1955 System: Origin and Transformation 2. Rearmament Controversis and Cultural Conflict in Japan: The Case of the Conservation 3. The Japan Socialist Party before the Mid-1960s
Argues that the post-Cold War world will see the United States and Japan emerge as opponents, traces Japan's increasing power, and contends the United States holds the trump cards in the economic contest.
This fourth edition provides an in-depth, up-to-date, chronological analysis of Japan’s current political system and the contributions of its leaders. It emphasizes why Japan and its politics matters in a global society. This book contains: 1. Ideal for college courses on Japanese or comparative politics as well as for those interested in Japanese war memory, constitutional revision, an…
This book is many things. On one level, it is a defense of what has come to be called derisively the “area studies” approach to Japanese politics. This work is therefore part of an ongoing debate within the discipline of political science and the subfield of Japanese political studies about the proper way to study political institutions and behavior. There is no modeling, little in the way…
This comprehensive volume examines the workings of the government and politics of Japan. it provides a macro view of the central government. the bicameral parliament and civil service bureaucracy and of how these various instutions work together to create teh laws and policies of the nation
The authors explain outcomes ranging from national budgetary priorities through nuclear-power regulations and military-security commitments. They show that the political leadership in both countries is in control of policy, but that political institutions explain why the bureaucracies of the two countries receive different missions and operating procedures. This volume is a powerful contributio…
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the state and politics in Japan at the start of the twenty-first century. In it, Ian Neary asks if the state in Japan is in any important sense different from states in western societies. He seeks to answer this question through an examination of the historical process that created the modern state, a description of the main institutions and actors in…
in the 1990s, the United States faces a rapidly unfolding security environment in the Asia-Pacific area. Its principal features are familiar : the economic dynamism of market economies ; the normalization of relations between China and the Soviet Union , symbolized by Gorbachev's visit to japan.
In the 1990s Japan swung swiftly and suddenly from being an unstoppable economic colossus to a creaky house of cards on the brink of collapse. Once cautious banks and bureaucrats fell in with cowboy businessmen and gangsters. The political system crumbled along with many of the real life myths and cultural certitudes built up around Japan and its economic miracle over the past half century. The…