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Author : Mary Alice Haddad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107014077
This book offers a grassroots perspective and holistic understanding of Japan's democratization process and what it means for the nation today.
Author : Mark E. Caprio,Yoneyuki Sugita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134118618
With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan. Focusing on two central themes – democracy and the interplay of US-initiated reforms and Japan's endogenous drive for democratization and social justice – the contributors address key questions: How did the US authorities and the Japanese people define democracy? To what extent did America impose their notions of democracy on Japan? How far did the Japanese pursue impulses toward reform, rooted in their own history and values? Which reforms were readily accepted and internalized, and which were ultimately subverted by the Japanese as impositions from outside? These questions are tackled by exploring the dynamics of the reform process from the three perspectives of innovation, continuity and compromise, specifically determining the effect that this period made to Japanese social, economic, and political understanding. Critically examines previously unexplored issues that influenced postwar Japan such as the effect of labour and healthcare legislation, textbook revision, and minority policy. Illuminating contemporary Japan, its achievements, its potential and its quandaries, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese-US relations, Japanese history and Japanese politics.
Author : Jennifer M. Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674240025
During the occupation American policymakers identified elections and education as the wellsprings of a democratic consciousness in Japan. But as the extent of Japan’s economic recovery became clear, they placed prosperity at the core of a revised vision for their new ally’s future, as Jennifer Miller shows in this fresh appraisal of the Cold War.
Author : Roger W. Bowen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315290317
This is a short, readable, and incisive study of the corrosive effects of corruption in one of the world's major liberal democracies. It explores the disconnect between democratic rule and undemocratic practices in Japan since the Second World War, with special attention to the corrupt practices of various prime ministers and the resulting sense of political cynicism and powerlessness among the general public.
Author : Nobutaka Ike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Japan
ISBN : UOM:39015022927480
Author : Tetsuya Kataoka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000136643
Author : Sherry L. Martin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801461308
Popular Democracy in Japan examines a puzzle in Japanese politics: Why do Japanese women turn out to vote at rates higher than men? On the basis of in-depth fieldwork in various parts of the country, Sherry L. Martin argues that the exclusion of women from a full range of opportunities in public life provokes many of them to seek alternative outlets for self-expression. They have options that include a wide variety of study, hobby, and lifelong learning groups—a feature of Japanese civic life that the Ministry of Education encourages. Women who participate in these alternative spaces for learning tend, Martin finds, to examine the political conditions that have pushed them there. Her research suggests that study group participation increases women’s confidence in using various types of political participation (including voting) to pressure political elites for a more inclusive form of democracy. Considerable overlap between the narratives that emerge from women’s groups and a survey of national public opinion identifies these groups as crucial sites for crafting and circulating public discourses about politics. Martin shows how the interplay between public opinion and institutional change has given rise to bottom-up changes in electoral politics that culminated in the 2009 Democratic Party of Japan victory in the House of Representatives election.
Author : Takeshi Ishida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UCSD:31822021564166
Following World War II, the American Occupation created Western style democratic institutions in Japan and sought to develop a society and culture that would support a democratic political system.& Now, after four decades, the successes and failures of Japanese democracy can be assessed.& How equal are Japan's citizens?& To what extent are their views represented in the legislature?& How does Japan handle dissent and protest?& How stable is its democracy? In closely related and readable essays, thirteen leading experts consider three main components of democracy in Japan - political, social, and economic.& The editors' introduction provides historical background, making this book accessible and valuable for students, the general reader interested in Japan, as well as the specialist.
Author : Sharon Minichiello
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824863159
Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "modernist" architecture to women as cultural symbols, popular songs to the rhetoric of empire-building, and more. The volume is organized around three general topics: geographical and cultural space; cosmopolitanism and national identity; and diversity, autonomy, and integration. Within these the authors have identified a number of thematic tensions that link the essays: high and low culture in cultural production and dissemination; national and ethnic identities; empire and ethnicity; the center and the periphery; naichi (homeland) and gaichi (overseas); urban and rural; public and private; migration and barriers. The volume opens up new avenues of exploration for the study of modern Japanese history and culture. If, as one of the authors contends, the imperative is " to understand more fully the historical forces that made Japan what it is today," these studies of Japan's "competing modernities" point the way to answers to some of the country's most challenging historical questions in this century. Contributors: Gail L. Bernstein, Barbara Brooks, Lonny E. Carlile, Kevin M. Doak, Joshua A. Fogel, Sheldon Garon, Elaine Gerbert, Jeffrey E. Hanes, Helen Hardacre, Sharon A. Minichiello, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Jonathan M. Reynolds, Michael Robinson, Roy Starrs, Mariko Asano Tamanoi, Julia Adeney Thomas, E. Patricia Tsurumi, Christine R. Yano.
Author : Jōji Watanuki
Publisher : [Tokyo] : University of Tokyo Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3827082
Author : Toshio Nishi
Publisher : Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Democracy and education
ISBN : UCSD:31822030135420
Author : Iwao Hoshii
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 1873410077
Japan's legal and political system, enshrined in the 1947 Constitution and imposed on the Japanese people without their involvement during the U.S. occupation, is largely alien to its history and culture. Peter Herzog examines the effects of that foreign value system in this detailed and fascinating book, highlighting instances in such areas as the judiciary, human rights, minorities, religion and education, where abuse and exploitation of the law has taken on disturbing proportions at many levels of Japanese public life.
Author : Gavan McCormack,Yoshio Sugimoto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822002750750
This title was first published in 1986: This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.
Author : Nobutaka Ike
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4916454
Author : Larry Diamond,David Kramer,Yasunobu Sato,Tsuneo Akaha,David Steinberg,Aung Din,Mistugi Endo,Richard Kraemer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996656766
Recommends practical ways in which the United States and Japan can support democratic development in countries that are emerging from autocratic regimes and those that have achieved a measure of democracy, but are in danger of regressing.
