The Politics Of Modern Japan The Prime Minister And Change

Author : Christopher Philip Hood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 041545624X

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The Politics of Modern Japan: The prime minister and change by Christopher Philip Hood Pdf

Owing to the changing nature of Japan and its role within the world, more needs to be known of the dynamics of Japanese politics. This timely set brings together key articles on the most crucial issues facing Japanese politics today, and the relationship between Japanese politics and the main institutions including big business, the bureaucracy and the media. This is an area that has been studied by leading academics for a number of decades, but whose work has yet to be given sufficient notice or credit. With more and more students enrolling at universities to study Japan, there is a demand for books which bring comprehensive and key articles under one umbrella. To date there have been few books which have dealt with Japanese politics. Most have been on issues which are covered in articles contained in this collection

Author : Christopher Philip Hood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415456266

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The Politics of Modern Japan: Elections and changes in modern Japanese society by Christopher Philip Hood Pdf

Owing to the changing nature of Japan and its role within the world, more needs to be known of the dynamics of Japanese politics. This timely set brings together key articles on the most crucial issues facing Japanese politics today, and the relationship between Japanese politics and the main institutions including big business, the bureaucracy and the media. This is an area that has been studied by leading academics for a number of decades, but whose work has yet to be given sufficient notice or credit. With more and more students enrolling at universities to study Japan, there is a demand for books which bring comprehensive and key articles under one umbrella. To date there have been few books which have dealt with Japanese politics. Most have been on issues which are covered in articles contained in this collection.

Author : Tomohito Shinoda
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231158527

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Contemporary Japanese Politics by Tomohito Shinoda Pdf

Tomohito Shinoda tracks slow yet steady changes in the operation of and tensions between Japan's political parties and the public's behavior in Japanese elections, as well as in the government's ability to coordinate diverse policy preferences and respond to political crises.

Author : Christopher Philip Hood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCSD:31822037177557

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The Politics of Modern Japan: Japanese politics on the international stage by Christopher Philip Hood Pdf

Owing to the changing nature of Japan and its role within the world, more needs to be known of the dynamics of Japanese politics. This timely set brings together key articles on the most crucial issues facing Japanese politics today, and the relationship between Japanese politics and the main institutions including big business, the bureaucracy and the media. This is an area that has been studied by leading academics for a number of decades, but whose work has yet to be given sufficient notice or credit. With more and more students enrolling at universities to study Japan, there is a demand for books which bring comprehensive and key articles under one umbrella. To date there have been few books which have dealt with Japanese politics. Most have been on issues which are covered in articles contained in this collection

Author : Kitaoka Shinichi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429808463

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The Political History of Modern Japan by Kitaoka Shinichi Pdf

Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this book introduces students to the formation, collapse, and rebirth of the modern Japanese state. It demonstrates how, faced with foreign threats, Japan developed a new governing structure to deal with these challenges and in turn gradually shaped its international environment. Had Japan been a self-sufficient power, like the United States, it is unlikely that external relations would have exercised such great control over the nation. And, if it were a smaller country, it may have been completely pressured from the outside and could not have influenced the global stage on its own. For better or worse therefore, this book argues, Japan was neither too large nor too small. Covering the major events, actors, and institutions of Japan’s modern history, the key themes discussed include: Building the Meiji state and Constitution. The establishment of Parliament. The First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars. Party Politics and International Cooperation. The Pacific War. Development of LDP politics. Changes in the international order and the end of the Cold War. This book, written by one of Japan's leading experts on Japan's political history, will be an essential resource for students of Japanese modern history and politics.

Author : Terry Edward MacDougall
Publisher : U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780939512065

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Political Leadership in Contemporary Japan by Terry Edward MacDougall Pdf

Those who do not read Japanese seldom have access to analytic studies of the fascinating and surprisingly diverse world of contemporary Japanese political leadership. This volume constitutes a step toward bringing to the English reader some sense of the norms, beliefs, styles, and modes of exercising power of Japanese political leaders and the organizational and political contexts which are changing leadership role expectations. The second volume in this series concentrates more explicitly on leadership recruitment, although the subject is also addressed here. All of the essays in this volume highlight specific politicians, while attempting to develop analytic categories to understand the broader significance of these types of leaders. Included are the following: a Liberal Democratic Party prime minister and faction leader (Fukuda Takeo) who rose "almost effortlessly" to the pinnacle of power on the basis of an elitist educational and bureaucratic career background and another (Tanaka Kakuei) who took advantage of the chaotic wartime and immediate postwar period to overcome the limitations of his commoner background by developing an entrepreneurial style that makes him even today "the most powerful in Japan"; a younger conservative leader (Kono Yohei) who, with certain others of his generation, found life within the restrictive but predictable career paths of ruling Liberal Democrats less attractive than the risky option of forming his own New Liberal Club; an unconventional Socialist chairman (Asukata Ichio) who bucks the pull toward coalition making among the opposition parties in favor of his belief that this major but perpetual opposition party must first reconstruct itself and structure a new popular consensus that can legitimize a coalitional alternative to the Liberal Democrats; parliamentary leaders (like lower-house speaker Maeo Shigesaburo, directors of the House Management Committee, and heads of the Diet policy committees of the various parties) who are projected into increasingly influential roles by changing electoral trends and popular expectations; an innovative and dynamic mayor (Suzuki Heizaburo) who, taking advantage of the considerable authority afforded by Japan's "presidential" system of local chief executives, pursues his own priorities, mobilizing the requisite support despite the lack of national guidance and the oppositions of former backers; and the "power behind the throne" (Matsunaga Yasuzaemon and Komori Takeshi) whose visions move prime ministers and governors as well as their own followers in powerful public and private bureaucracies. [intro]

Author : Ikuo Kabashima,Gill Steel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801457630

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Changing Politics in Japan by Ikuo Kabashima,Gill Steel Pdf

Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture—and Gill Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. They focus on the dynamic relationship between voters and elected or nonelected officials and describe the shifts that have occurred in how voters respond to or control political elites and how officials both respond to, and attempt to influence, voters. The authors return time and again to the theme of changes in representation and accountability. Kabashima and Steel set out to demolish the still prevalent myth that Japanese politics are a stagnant set of entrenched systems and interests that are fundamentally undemocratic. In its place, they reveal a lively and dynamic democracy, in which politicians and parties are increasingly listening to and responding to citizens' needs and interests and the media and other actors play a substantial role in keeping democratic accountability alive and healthy. Kabashima and Steel describe how all the political parties in Japan have adapted the ways in which they attempt to organize and channel votes and argue that contrary to many journalistic stereotypes the government is increasingly acting in the "the interests of citizens"—the median voter's preferences.

Author : Louis D. Hayes
Publisher : East Gate Book
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0765605635

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Introduction to Japanese Politics by Louis D. Hayes Pdf

This widely used text is an even-handed, forthright attempt to explain the political life of Japan as well as the forces that shape it. It demystifies this complex society by explaining the historical background for modern Japan; the political process, its formal structure, the party system, and citizen participation; the social order and the domestic economy; and Japan's role in international politics with emphasis on U.S.-Japanese relations and the international economy. The revised and updated Third Edition covers the new ground of 1995-1999, a period during which Japan experienced extraordinary political and economic change.

Author : Kōichi Kishimoto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCSD:31822000692723

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Politics in Modern Japan by Kōichi Kishimoto Pdf

Author : Bernard S. Silberman,Harry D. Harootunian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000943319

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Modern Japanese Leadership by Bernard S. Silberman,Harry D. Harootunian Pdf

Author : Steven R. Reed,Kenneth Mori McElwain,Kaoru Shimizu,Kay Shimizu
Publisher : Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1931368147

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Political Change in Japan by Steven R. Reed,Kenneth Mori McElwain,Kaoru Shimizu,Kay Shimizu Pdf

In the past twenty years, Japan has undergone dramatic changes. Electoral reform has altered the relationship between politicians and voters, and Japan is increasingly a two-party system. The popularity of former prime minister Koizumi Junichiro highlighted the salience of telegenic party leaders. Amid so many shifts, it remains unclear whether such changes will stand the test of time and where Japanese politics is heading. However, it is not too early to assess the permanence and the direction of political change in Japan. Each chapter in this wide-ranging volume addresses a key political development in Japan--from "stealing votes" to the constraints that women candidates face. Intended for scholars and students who study Japan, this timely volume also provides valuable reading for comparative political scientists. With contributions from some of the most distinguished scholars working on Japan today, Political Change in Japan seeks to answer the question: Was political reform in Japan a revolution or a flash in the pan?

Author : Mikiso Hane,Louis G. Perez
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813346953

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Modern Japan by Mikiso Hane,Louis G. Perez Pdf

Integrating political events with cultural, economic, and intellectual movements, Modern Japan provides a balanced and authoritative survey of modern Japanese history. A summary of Japan's early history, emphasizing institutions and systems that influenced Japanese society, provides a well-rounded introduction to this essential volume, which focuses on the Tokugawa period to the present. The fifth edition of Modern Japan is updated throughout to include the latest information on Japan's international relations, including secret diplomatic correspondence recently disclosed on WikiLeaks. This edition brings Japanese history up to date in the post 9/11 era, detailing current issues such as: the impact of the Gulf Wars on Japanese international relations, the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear accident, the recent tumultuous change of political leadership, and Japan's current economic and global status. An updated chronological chart, list of prime ministers, and bibliography are also included.

Author : Marius B. Jansen
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015049622981

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The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen Pdf

An account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to 2000. This book analyzes the making of the modern state, a time which saw three periods of major social change: the imposition of hegemonic order on feudal society; the opening of Japanese ports; and defeat in World War II.

Author : Christopher Philip Hood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 041545624X

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The Politics of Modern Japan: The prime minister and change by Christopher Philip Hood Pdf

Owing to the changing nature of Japan and its role within the world, more needs to be known of the dynamics of Japanese politics. This timely set brings together key articles on the most crucial issues facing Japanese politics today, and the relationship between Japanese politics and the main institutions including big business, the bureaucracy and the media. This is an area that has been studied by leading academics for a number of decades, but whose work has yet to be given sufficient notice or credit. With more and more students enrolling at universities to study Japan, there is a demand for books which bring comprehensive and key articles under one umbrella. To date there have been few books which have dealt with Japanese politics. Most have been on issues which are covered in articles contained in this collection

Author : Christopher Goto-Jones
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191568213

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Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Goto-Jones Pdf

Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all the way through to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques. In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it remains something of an enigma to many, who see it as a confusing montage of the alien and the familiar, the ancient and modern. The aim of this Very Short Introduction is to explode the myths and explore the reality of modern Japan - by taking a concise look at its history, economy, politics, and culture. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.