Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. — 449 p. — ISBN 978-981-16-8378-7 This book examines the lives and times of Japanese prime ministers from 1945 to the present by focusing on their views on war and peace issues. As an introduction, this chapter reviews earlier works on the study of Japanese prime ministers in order to demonstrate a gap in the literature on Japanese politics and provide...
Routledge, 2018. — 261 p. In the postwar period, Japanese politics has evolved considerably, with issues of gender, representation, and household economics becoming increasingly salient. Meanwhile, since the end of the Cold War, Japan has joined other developed states in the process of decentralization and deindustrialization. Yet, its restructuring has come at a slower pace,...
Singapore: Springer, 2018. — 311 p. — ISBN: 978-981-13-1528-2 This volume by Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Yuto Kitamura, Beverley Yamamoto and Tomoko Tokunaga on Japanese Education in a Global Age: Sociological Relections and Future Directions is the latest book to be published in the long-standing Springer book series Education in the Asia-Paciic Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects....
Japan Center for International Exchange, 2015. — 464 p. — ISBN 978-4889-07142-9 Democratic leaders around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to exercise strong leadership and maintain public support. However, there is nowhere that this has proven to be as challenging of a task as Japan, which has seen its top leaders change more often over the past 25 years than...
London: Hurst & Company, 2016. — 356 p. Эндрюс Уильям. История японского радикализма и контркультуры в период с 1945 года до Фукусимы (на англ. яз.) Introduction: Defying the Cult of Tranquillity. Enduring the Unendurable. Voices of the Voiceless. The Clown's Coup. 1968 and All That. An Angry Elephant. A Hijacking and a Siege. The Strange Death of the Japanese New Left....
Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. — 414 p. — ISBN: 978-0-312-17313-5 In this volume the reader will find interesting forms of analysis on Japan just as it was embarking on potentially the most important changes in its political system since 1955, when the Liberal Democratic Party was created through a merger of Japan's two dominant conservative parties of that era. With the old Cold...
NY: Press book, 2010. — 198 p. Our aim at wagamama for now and in the future is to serve great, fresh and nutritious food in an elegant, yet simple environment; to provide a helpful, friendly service and value for money. Change for us is in the form of continuous improvement.' the wagamama ethos. True to the positive eating, positive living ethos of wagamama's idiosyncratic chain...
Routledge, 2011. — 114 p.
The Japanese are the only people in the world who have experienced the horror of nuclear weapons with their own flesh. Atomic holocaust was followed by American occupation and the American-inspired, postwar Japanese "Peace Constitution" which explicitly outlawed Japanese military forces and the use of war as an instrument of state policy. At the time...
SAGE Publications, 2014. — 664 p. This reference book provides cutting-edge studies of contemporary Japan by leading scholars. It covers a wide-range of topics, including such hitherto little explored areas as heritage management, energy supply and medicine in Japan, thus sensitizing the reader to more diverse aspects of the complex society. It is pioneering and nuanced in...
Prentice Hall of Canada, 2000. — 138 p. Kakuei Tanaka was the most powerful politician in Japan for nearly two decades, and his followers have dominated Japanese politics for most of the country's recent history. This account of his life and times explores the public profile and private power-broking of this controversial politician, shedding light on the political history of...
Praeger, 1977. — 132 p. Hans H. Baerwald was a professor in the Political Science Department at UCLA as well as an internationally renowned scholar of Japanese politics. Born in Tokyo to a German businessman and his wife on June 18, 1927, Baerwald began a lifelong connection with Japan during his childhood, when he became fluent in Japanese while attending the American School...
Blackwell Publishers, 1996. — 221 p. Within forty years of the end of the Second World War, Japan was transformed from a nation in defeat to one of the most successful economic forces in the world. In this book, Paul Bailey draws on the most recent research to analyse the significance of the American Occupation (1945-1952) as well as the later political, social and economic...
Renaissance Books Ltd., 2016. — 163 p. — ISBN 978-1-898823-21-6 With an author’s Foreword written on the day that the Abe cabinet decided to ‘revise the Japanese Constitution by reinterpretation’ (Tuesday, 1 July 2014), this timely examination of Japan’s post-war history by two leading historians committed to democratic politics is highly instructive and prompts serious...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 258 p. — ISBN 978-1-4725-2699-1 Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan offers a fresh perspective on gender politics by focusing on the Japanese housewife of the 1950s as a controversial representation of democracy, leisure, and domesticity. Examining the shifting personae of the housewife, especially in the appealing texts of women's magazines,...
Picador, 2023. — 912 p. From the prizewinning author of the acclaimed The Blood Telegram, a landmark, magisterial history of the postwar trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals – and their impact on the modern history of Asia and the world. In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the victorious powers turned to the question of how to...
Routledge, 2000. — 374 p. The best scholarship on the development of contemporary Japan. This collection presents well over 100 scholarly articles on modern Japanese society, written by leading scholars in the field. These selections have been drawn from the most distinguished scholarly journals as well as from journals that are less well known among specialists; and the...
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022. — 327 p. Capture Japan investigates the formation of visual tropes and how these have contributed to perceptions of Japan in the global imagination. The book proposes that images are not incidental in the formation of such perceptions, but central to notions about identity, history and memory. From a tentative western ally in 1952 to a 'soft power'...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 228 p. Lost in Transition tells the story of the “lost generation” that came of age in Japan’s deep economic recession in the 1990s. The book argues that Japan is in the midst of profound changes that have had an especially strong impact on the young generation. The country’s renowned “permanent employment system” has unraveled for young...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 330 p. — (The World Since 1980). This book tells the story of the performance of Japan's economic and political institutions starting in the late 1970s through late 2007. The authors explain how Japan's flawed response to new economic, political, and technological forces requiring more open markets and more democratic political institutions...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 204 p. Combining history with comparative politics, Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed take on political corruption and scandals, and the reforms designed to counter them, in post–World War II Japan. Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan makes sense of the scandals that have plagued Japanese politics for more than half a century and...
Brill, 2021. — 275 p. — (Studies in Critical Social Sciences; New Scholarship in Political Economy 191/07). In The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a thought-provoking analysis of contemporary Japanese political economy, exploring how the causes of Japan’s current crisis can be found in the same institutions that brought prosperity in the post-war era. Creative...
Prentice Hall, 1991. — 329 p. Debunks the myth that the success of modern Japan is a derivative of ancient samurai tradition and emperor worship, and states that the crucial first years after World War II shaped Japan's current economy and modern social structure.
Duke University Press, 2019. — 177 p. — ISBN 978-14780-03359 Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In Anti-Japan Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout...
Routledge, 2020. — 214 p. This book presents a collection of lessons on how best to run elections and politics, using examples from the Japanese experience and showing how elections operate in a non-Western modern Asian democracy. Ray Christensen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, USA. His research focuses on aspects of Japanese...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 555 p. Like its Nuremberg counterpart, the Tokyo Trial was foundational in the field of international law. However, until now, the persistent notion of 'victor's justice' in the existing historical literature has made it difficult to treat it as such. David Cohen and Yuma Totani seek to redress this by cutting through persistent orthodoxies...
Free Press, 1987. — 532 p. An absorbing account of the way American New Deal tenets melded with Japanese tradition to form the basis of Japan's modern industrial might. Theodore Cohen was General Douglas MacArthur's labor-relations chief during the postwar occupation of Japan, when American authorities were under orders to disarm, demilitarize and democratize that conquered...
University of California Press, 2003. - 400 p.
Данная книга, написанная двумя американскими журналистами, представляет собой первое и до сих пор единственное детальное исследование феномена якудза — японского аналога итальянской и американской мафий, Коза Ностра, китайских триад и других крупнейших преступных сообществ мира. Превышая по численности ряды своих американских...
Fordham University Press, 2024. — 363 р. When the Japanese artists Toshi and Iri Maruki sat down in 1982 to complete their fi fteenth and fi nal mural of the Genbaku no zu—conventionally translated as The Hiroshima Panels but literally meaning the Atomic Bombing Panels—they turned their attention, fi nally, to Nagasaki.1 The Marukis had taken up the subject of Nagasaki’s atomic...
Brill, 2006. — 263 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 23). — ISBN-13 978-90-04-15199-4. This is the first history of Japan's avant-garde underground theatre ( angura) in a time of its most intense, creative, and original productions, viz. 1960-2000. It closely investigates the interrelationship of aesthetics and politics and explores contrasting examples of contemporary...
University of California Press, 1992. — 266 p. This book is about the role of MacArthur and Yoshida in transformation of contemporary japanese society. 1992 The Regents of the University of California. While noting these interpretations, I have tried to write a book that is accurate in its description of events and balanced in its judgments, so that those reading it will see...
Routledge, 2017. — 210 p. The Occupation era (1945-1952) witnessed major change in Japan and the beginnings of its growth from of the ashes of defeat towards its status as a developmental model for much of the world. The period arguably saw the sowing of the seeds of the post-war flowering of what some term the ‘postwar Japanese economic miracle’. However, some scholars dispute...
University of California Press, 2007. — 275 p. Following World War II, Japan's postwar constitution forbade the country to wage war or create an army. However, with the emergence of the cold war in the 1950s, Japan was urged to establish the Self-Defense Forces as a way to bolster Western defenses against the tide of Asian communism. Although the SDF's role is supposedly...
A Kinema Club Book, 2016. — 296 p. Japanese media is at a crossroads. In the second half of the twentieth century, the media industries followed a predictable path to increased revenue and audience growth, but today—with a shrinking national population in Japan, migrating audiences and declining sales—the future is less certain. Like the famous “scramble crossing” in Tokyo’s...
Princeton University Press, 1998. — 332 р. — ISBN-13 978-0691001913 How has the Japanese government persuaded its citizens to save substantial portions of their incomes? And to care for the elderly within the family? How did the public come to support legalized prostitution as in the national interest? What roles have women's groups played in Japan's "economic miracle"? What...
Routledge, 2015. — 262 p. Writings on post-war Japanese politics have tended to take for granted the dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as inevitable, without questioning how this came about. This book analyses the nature of Japanese party politics over the first four decades following the Second World War, assessing how the chief contenders – the conservative LDP...
Routledge, 2011. — 465 p. The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Politics is an advanced level reference guide which surveys the current state of Japanese politics, featuring both traditional topics and cutting edge research. The volume is divided into five sections covering: domestic politics civil society social policy political economy and international relations/security. The...
Routledge, 2014. — 316 p. Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan makes a unique contribution to the international literature on the formation of modern nation–states in its focus on the gendering of the modern Japanese nation-state from the late nineteenth century to the present. References to gender relations are deeply embedded in the historical concepts of nation and...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 191 p. Examines the forces that shaped the political consciousness of Japanese youth who chose to engage in political violence during the 1960s and 1970s. The book argues in part that the intertwined political rhetoric of the far left and far right precipitated further levels of social alienation that helped to define the political...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 576 p. Hell to Pay is a comprehensive and compelling examination of the many complex issues that encompassed the strategic plans for the proposed American invasion of Japan. U.S. planning for the invasion and military occupation of Imperial Japan was begun in 1943, two years before the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In its final...
Georgetown University Press, 2019. — 262 p. The post-Cold War era has been difficult for Japan. A country once heralded for evolving a superior form of capitalism and seemingly ready to surpass the United States as the world's largest economy lost its way in the early 1990s. The bursting of the bubble in 1991 ushered in a period of political and economic uncertainty that has...
University of California Press, 1993. — 508 p. Japan’s catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe an ongoing historical process...
NUS Press, 2014. — 200 p. In the aftermath of the Pacific War and Japan’s capitulation, Mrs Yumi Goto and her family lived in the small community of Muramatsu, where they had relocated to get away from Tokyo. Yumi Goto was an English-speaking graduate of one of Japan’s top universities for women, and when a contingent of American soldiers was sent to Muramatsu as a garrison...
Routledge, 2005. — 352 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies).
This is the first major English-language study to explore the broad and longstanding connections between Japan’s national security and the safety of its sea lanes. Tracing issues from pre-and post-1945 eras, the book explores how Japan’s concerns with sea lane protection have developed across such...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 326 p. — ISBN 978-0231-2046-68 No other country has devised a grand strategy for managing China’s rising economic and military power as deliberately or successfully as Japan. Seeking to counter Chinese ambitions toward regional hegemony, Japan has taken an increasingly assertive role in East Asia and the world. During the tenure of Prime...
Westview Press, 1996. — 272 p. It has been fifty years since Japan admitted defeat and accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration following World War II. At the time, Japan was in shambles, its imperial dream shattered, and its people reduced to scrounging for sufficient food to stay alive. Yet over the past half century, Japan has remade itself and emerged as one of the...
Routledge, 2019. — 234 p. Through a discourse analysis of Japanese parliamentary debates, this book explores how different understandings of Japan’s history have led to sharply divergent security policies in the postwar period, whilst providing an explanation for the much-debated security policy changes under Abe Shinzō. Analyzing the ways identities can be constructed through...
Hurst, 2020. — 451 p. — ISBN 978-1787-38310-4. Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in 2012, and now dominates Japanese democracy as no leader has done before. Abe has...
World Scientific, 2010. — 510 p. Snow on the Pine presents a compelling view of the Japanese foreign policy that runs counter to the common wisdom reducing Japan's post-war efforts to the pursuit of purely commercial interests. This book takes a new approach the eventual Japanese defeat in the Second World War did not transform Japan into an exceptional state seeking only...
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. — 195 p. — ISBN 978- 0- 472- 07576- 8 I began contemplating this book many years ago, when Germany appeared to be consolidating friendships in Europe while Japan seemed mired in hos-tility from Asian countries. Both had faced ghosts in their neighborhood— lingering memories of their own bad, sometimes brutal behavior in the past;...
Routledge, 2021. — 309 p. This book is a biography of Eisaku Satō (1901-1975), who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The book focuses on Satō’s management of Japan’s relations with the United States and Japan’s neighbours in East Asia, where Satō worked to normalize relations...
Princeton University Press, 1987. — 341 p. Professor Havens analyzes the efforts of Japanese antiwar organizations to portray the war as much more than a fire across the sea" and to create new forms of activism in a country where individuals have traditionally left public issues to the authorities. This path-breaking study examines not only the methods of the protesters but the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 272 p. In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They rapidly transformed their political culture-policies, institutions, and public opinion-to create a more equitable, democratic and peaceful society....
Stanford University Press, 2002. — 432 p. This is the definitive story of how the United States attempted to turn Japan into a democratic and peace-loving nation by drafting a new constitution for its former enemy—and then pretending that the Japanese had written it. Based on scores of interviews with participants in the process, as well as exhaustive research in Japanese and...
Routledge, 1995. — 255 p. Providing a clear and accessible introduction to Japanese ways of thinking, which does not require any previous knowledge of the country, this book explores Japanese society through the worlds of home, work, play, religion and ritual, covering a full range of life experiences, from childhood to old age. It also examines the diversity of people living...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 298 p. Twenty-first-century Japan is known for the world's most aged population. Faced with this challenge, Japan has been a pioneer in using science to find ways of managing a declining birth rate. Science for Governing Japan's Population considers the question of why these population phenomena have been seen as problematic. What roles have...
Second Edition. — Scarecrow Press, 2019. — 653 p. Japan has emerged as a major world player following its defeat in World War II. After recovering from the war, lifting itself onto the stage of the late 20th century world, and jettisoning its cheap, bizarre goods, Japan began to extend its influence into the wider world. The impact was first felt in the economic arena. Japan's...
BBC Books, 1990. — 310 p. In 1945, after humiliating defeat and unconditional surrender, Japan was prostrate; her people were near starvation, industry and commerce had collapsed, and her cities were devastated. An overcrowded country with little cultivable land and no natural resources, Japan's future looked bleak indeed. Today 120 million Japanese have one of the highest per...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 500 p. This volume seeks to explain the political economy of the Abe government and the so-called 'Abenomics' economic policies. The Abe government represents a major turning point in postwar Japanese political economy. In 2019, Abe became the longest serving Prime Minister in Japanese history. Abe's government stood out not only for its...
Routledge, 2005. — 352 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). The changes in Japanese Voting Behaviour and Attitudes towards Politics, 1980-2000 From Old Socialists to New Democrats: Two Decades in the Life of the Japanese Left The Constitution and its importance to the decline of the Japan Socialist Party and the unity of the Democratic Party of Japan. Rengo and...
Columbia University Press, 2017. — 344 p. In 1995, an Okinawan schoolgirl was brutally raped by several U.S. servicemen. The incident triggered a chain of protests by women's groups, teachers' associations, labor unions, reformist political parties, and various grassroots organizations across Okinawa prefecture. Reaction to the crime culminated in a rally attended by some...
Routledge, 2009. — 262 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of ''middle-mass'' society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990’s, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far away. Social Class in...
Denver: National Opinion Research Center; University of Denver, 1946. — 52 p. — (Report No. 32). American Attitudes toward the Japanese. The Background of Pearl Harbor. Were the Japanese People Misled? Responsibility for Atrocities? The Chief Enemy? How Much Do We Know about Japan? What Shall We Do with the Japanese? Punish the Japanese Severely. Supervise Them Strictly. Treat...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 344 p. — ISBN 0-19-511986-X Criminal proceedings in which people can lose life, liberty, or reputation tell us a great deal about the character of any society. In Japan, it is prosecutors who wield the greatest control over these values and who therefore reveal most clearly the character of the Japanese way of justice. In this book, David T....
Routledge, 2000. — 224 p. The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan remained in power continuously between 1955 and 1993. In this groundbreaking study of the dominance of the LDP in Japanese politics over the last forty years, Opposition Politics in Japan examines the challenges which were mounted against this regime and explores why they failed. The subjects covered include...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 297 p. — ISBN 978-981-10-7403-5 The book examines the process and the impact of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), otherwise known as the Tokyo Trial, which was convened in 1946 to try the Japanese leaders accused of committing war crimes during World War II. Offering valuable research materials, it studies the lessons...
Palgrave Pivot, 2019. — 113 p. — ISBN 978-981-13-7794-5 Written by Chinese Jurist Mei Ju-ao, this significant book considers both the process and the impact of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, otherwise known as the Tokyo Trial, which was convened in 1946 to try political military leaders accused of involvement in war crimes. Offering valuable research...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 124 р. — ISBN 978-1-009-18103-7 This study provides an accessible overview of the range of reading spaces in modern Japan, and the evolution thereof from a historical perspective. After setting the scene in a short introduction, it examines the development of Kanda-Jinbōchō, the area of Tokyo that has remained for a century the location in...
Routledge, 1996. — 304 p. Democracy in Post-War Japan assesses the development of democracy through the writings of the brilliant political thinker Maruyama Masao. The author explores the significance of Maruyama's notion of personal and social autonomy and its impact on the development of a distinctively Japanese democratic ideal.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. — 194 р. — ISBN 9781978809017 The Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Context series from Rutgers University Press fills a gap in research by examining the politics of mar-riage and related practices, ideologies, and interpretations, and addresses the key question of how the politics of marriage has affected...
Springer, 2023. — 461 р. — ISBN 978-3-031-36331-3 This book enables readers to understand contemporary Japanese society and culture. Since it is written by experts, it allows readers to start with any chapters they are interested in. It also provides a unique way to introduce Japanese society and culture to those who have never visited or studied Japanese society by reading...
Routledge, 2021. — 192 p. This book examines the discursive formation of nuclear power in Japan to provide insights into the ways this technology has been both promoted and resisted, constituting and being constituted by Japan’s sociocultural landscape. Each chapter pays close attention to a particular discursive site, including newspaper editorials, public relations campaigns,...
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2012. — 324 pages. 2nd Edition ISBN: 1118315073
The second edition of this comprehensive study of recent Japanese history now includes the author's expert assessment of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, including the political and environmental consequences of the Fukushima reactor meltdown.
Fully updated to include a detailed assessment of...
Routledge, 2014. — 328 p. This book provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary compendium written by a number of leading specialists on contemporary Japan. Chapters reflect the standards of rigorous scholarly work, but also exceed them in their accessibility of language and engagement with concerns relevant to non-specialists. The probing analysis of...
Routledge, 2021. — 254 p. Japan in Transformation, 1945–2020 has been newly revised and updated to examine the 3.11 natural and nuclear disasters, Emperor Akihito’s abdication, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s legacies, the 2019 World Cup and the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to COVID-19. Through a chronological approach, this volume traces the development of Japan’s...
Routledge, 2004. — 384 p. The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's lost decade' to describe how the phenomenal growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the country was crippled by enormous and ongoing political, economic and social problems. In responding to these unprecedented difficulties, wide-ranging reforms have been adopted including NPO, information disclosure...
Routledge, 2016. — 336 p. In twenty-first century Japan there are numerous instances of media harassment, intimidation, censorship and self-censorship that undermine the freedom of the press and influence how the news is reported. Since Abe returned to power in 2012, the recrudescence of nationalism under his leadership has emboldened right-wing activists and organizations...
Routledge, 2014. — 253 p. Japanese society in the 1990s and 2000s produced a range of complicated material about sexualized schoolgirls, and few topics have caught the imagination of western observers so powerfully. While young Japanese girls had previously been portrayed as demure and obedient, in training to become the obedient wife and prudent mother, in recent years less...
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2023. — 270 р. — ISBN 978-4-86658-247-4 Heisei is the Japanese era name assigned to the period when Emperor Akihito occupied the throne, from 1989 to 2019. It is, accordingly, a historical demarcation with no inherent political signif i cance. As it happened, however, the Heisei era began as the Cold War was drawing to a close...
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2023. — 366 р. — ISBN 978-4-86658-247-4 This volume brings together representative essays written by experts on the Japanese economy dur-ing the Heisei era. Japan’s Heisei era comprises the thirty years between 1989 and 2019. There is, of course, no theoretical basis for delimiting a period of time by the era name selected to...
Campus, 2016. — 365 p. Inhalt. Einleitung. Neomarxismus, Antiimperialismus und die Studentenbewegung. Die internationale Revolution: Der Antiimperialismus der Sekigun. Der Austausch des revolutionären Subjekts: Minderheiten- und Prekariatstheorien in der Neuen Linken. Die Befreiung von der Nation: Der Antikolonialismus der Antijapanischen Front. Fazit: Von Revolution zu...
Columbia University Press, 1999. — 304 p. The U.S. occupation of Japan transformed a brutal war charged with overt racism into an amicable peace in which the issue of race seemed to have disappeared. During the Occupation, the problem of racial relations between Americans and Japanese was suppressed and the mutual racism transformed into something of a taboo so that the two...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 336 p. After holding power continuously from its inception in 1955 (with the exception of a ten-month hiatus in 1993–1994), Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost control of the national government decisively in September 2009. Despite its defeat, the LDP remains the most successful political party in a democracy in the post–World War II...
Routledge, 1998. — 304 p. This volume approaches the history of Japanese-German relations from a business history perspective. Starting with an overview of Japanese-German relations which focuses on the environment, strategies and forms of inter-firm relations, Akira Kudo then uses case studies to provide a broader picture, before finally considering strategy, organisational...
Springer, 2023. — 204 p. This book documents Japan's psychological deterioration caused by its defeat in August 1945. Also, Japan’s traumatic transformation from authoritarianism to democracy is detailed. The study exposes an ideological war between the Soviet Union and the USA within American-occupied Japan, which triggered violent polarization among the Japanese. Under...
Routledge, 2016. — 334 p. The end of Japan s empire appeared to happen very suddenly and cleanly but, as this book shows, it was in fact very messy, with a long period of establishing or re-establishing the postwar order. Moreover, as the authors argue, empires have afterlives, which, in the case of Japan's empire, is not much studied. This book considers the details of...
Routledge, 2016. — 334 p. The end of Japan s empire appeared to happen very suddenly and cleanly but, as this book shows, it was in fact very messy, with a long period of establishing or re-establishing the postwar order. Moreover, as the authors argue, empires have afterlives, which, in the case of Japan s empire, is not much studied. This book considers the details of...
Columbia University Press, 2021. — 392 p. Since the end of World War II, Japan has not sought to remilitarize, and its postwar constitution commits to renouncing aggressive warfare. Yet many inside and outside Japan have asked whether the country should or will return to commanding armed forces amid an increasingly challenging regional and global context and as domestic...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 200 p. — (Japan and Global Society). Japanese Society and the Politics of the North Korean Threat explains the dramatic shift in Japanese policy between the North Korean ballistic missile tests of 1998 and 2006. Japanese‒North Korean Relations, 2002‒2004. Japanese–North Korean Relations, 2004‒2006: Debates about Unilateral Sanctions.
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 247 p. Empire of Hope asks how emotions become meaningful in political life. In a diverse array of cases from recent Japanese history, David Leheny shows how sentimental portrayals of the nation and its global role reflect a durable story of hopefulness about the country's postwar path. From the medical treatment of conjoined Vietnamese...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 248 p. Japan is often described as an inclusive society, and yet the media reports record highs in crime and suicide figures. This book examines criminal justice in Japan, and questions whether Japan really is facing social malaise, or if the media are simply creating a 'moral panic'.
Routledge, 2004. — 219 p. — ISBN 0-203-38703-1 Generations of young people in Japan have resisted the “adult social order” for the past f i fty years; but for the most part, these young people grew up and entered that order. Today, however, in an era in which the Japanese social order has lost legitimacy, this may no longer be the case. Will Japanese young people today be...
Cambridge University Press, 1988. — 309 p. — ISBN 978-0-521-10075-5 This wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays addresses the Japanese dimension of one of the major sociological issues of our time: the nature of socio-economic modernisation and the emergence or otherwise of 'post-modern' industrial society. The rise to economic supremacy of post-war Japan constitutes...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. — 247 p. Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents, breaks important new ground...
Routledge, 1995. — 222 p. This volume provides a timely and expert analysis of Japan's Asia policy as the country continues to address the future through trying to cope with the burden of a chequered past. Dr Mendl locates his exposition of Japan's policy towards both North-East and South-East Asia in a full historical and cultural context and importantly takes due account of the...
Getty Research Institute, 2007. — 160 p. Collaborative, ephemeral, self-reflective, multidisciplinary--the work generated by the rapid series of experimental artistic movements that energized the public sphere in postwar Japan was anything but private, static, or expected, despite the enduring engagement of Japanese artists with Western modernism. For two decades, a small but...
Stanford University Press, 2011. — 272 p. In this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of Japan's military power, in which Japanese troops would fight alongside their American counterparts in various conflicts worldwide. Midford argues that Japanese public opinion has...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 278 p. — ISBN 978-0-8014-5222-2 In recent decades, many countries have experienced both a rapid increase of in-migration of foreign nationals and a large-scale devolution of governance to the local level. The result has been new government policies to promote the social inclusion of recently arrived residents. In New Policies for New Residents,...
Harvard University Press, 2002. — 413 p. — ISBN 0674009584, 9780674009585. Poverty, Equality, and Growth: The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan Tables and Figures Editorial Conventions Japanese Incomes in Comparative Context Lumpy Equality: Inequalities Within Aggregate Equality The Japanese State's Role Through the Window of Poverty Setting the Scene: Policy Cases and...
University of Chicago Press, 2006. — 197 p. For Western economists and journalists, the most distinctive facet of the post-war Japanese business world has been the keiretsu, or the insular business alliances among powerful corporations. Within keiretsu groups, argue these observers, firms preferentially trade, lend money, take and receive technical and financial assistance, and...
Springer, 2016. — 255 p. A unique feature of this edited work is its compilation of various social scientific perspectives on the globalization (or non-globalization) of Japanese universities, public and private, beginning at the early stages of this most recent wave of internationalization programs The contributors have an extremely wide variety of academic and professional...
Routledge, 2016. — 336 p. The analyses and literary portraits in this text elucidate the existing realities of Japan's postwar history. They address, in chronological fashion, major social, environmental, and feminist issues and conflicts that have attended to Japan's postwar economic miracle.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. — v+409 p. In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States and its allies, thereby planting the seed from which would spring one of the world's most successful and stable democracies. In an age when democracy is often pursued, yet rarely accomplished, in which failed democracies are found throughout Africa, Latin America,...
Routledge, 2014. — 264 p. — (Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia).
In the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued to loom large in the national imagination of many of her East Asian neighbours. While for many, Japan still conjures up images of rampant military brutality, at different times and in different communities, alternative...
ANU E Press, 2013. — 270 p. — ISBN: 978-1925-0210-42 Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform asks why, despite all the high expectations, the Japanese public’s desire for economic reform, and leadership of a majority coalition in a parliamentary democracy, the reformer Prime Minister Koizumi has not achieved the economic reforms expected of him...
Harvard University Press, 2022. — 384 p. The odyssey of 600,000 imperial Japanese soldiers incarcerated in Soviet labor camps after World War II and their fraught repatriation to postwar Japan. In August 1945 the Soviet Union seized the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and the colony of Southern Sakhalin, capturing more than 600,000 Japanese soldiers, who were transported to...
Routledge, 2022. — 386 p. Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019) provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the evolving contexts of Japan throughout the Heisei era and how longstanding verities and values have been called into question. Asking what this holds for...
Routledge, 2020. — 236 p. This book provides a thorough analysis of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP), from a variety of perspectives including its factions, party presidential elections, the distribution of posts, national elections, local organisations, the policy making process and partner organisations. Drawing on comprehensive and up-to-date data, as well as a...
Routledge, 2016. — 224 p. "The Japanese Monarchy, 1931-1991", which created a sensation when first published in Japanese, clarifies US policies toward Japan's symbol emperor system before, during and after World War II. As American ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1945, Joseph Clark Grew had contacts with groups close to the emperor as well as leading "moderates". Returning to...
Routledge, 2010. — 170 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies).
Decentralization is a curious policy for a central government to pursue. If politics is essentially about the struggle for power, why would anyone want to give away the power that one struggled for and won? This book argues that it is precisely party competition in search of power that propels...
Routledge, 2015. — 248 p. In this important, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging study, Yasuhiro Nakasone, one of the most highly regarded former prime ministers of Japan, considers what should be Japan's strategic direction in the twenty-first century. Japan is often accused of lacking a vision, being slow to respond to changing circumstances, and then only responding...
Lexington Books, 2016. — 302 p. Radhabinod Pal was an Indian jurist who achieved international fame as the judge representing India at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and dissented from the majority opinion, holding that all Japanese “Class A” war criminals were not guilty of any of the charges brought against them. In postwar Japanese politics, right-wing polemicists have...
Harvard University Press, 2010 — 408 p. — ISBN-10 0674057473 / ISBN-13 978-0674057470 During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy in the East. Though we distinguished "good Germans" from the Nazis, we condemned all Japanese indiscriminately as fanatics and savages. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its...
Routledge, 2021. — 275 p. This book locates the development of Dōwa policy projects within their historical and political context, offering examples of human rights protection in a non-Western society. Charting Dōwa policy from its origins in the pre-war period to its revival after 1945 up to the turn of the 21st century, chapters in this study provide a social and historical...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. — 328 p. An analysis of how Tokyo entangles strategic countries and regions in an integrated overseas political economic web, generating enormous wealth and power for Japan.
Palgrave Macmillan, 1991. — 297 p. Japan achieved it's present economic position by rejecting free trade theory and instead mastering neomercantilist policies which target strategic industries for development with a range of government sponsored cartels, subsidies, import barriers and export incentives. These policies stimulated an economic growth rate which averaged ten...
Routledge, 2018. — 192 p. This book provides an overview of the Japanese sex industry in the years of Japan’s postwar economic boom. It argues that the origins of gender inequality in contemporary Japan resulted from the policies put in place during this period, when there was instituted a “sexual contract” which provided male salarymen whose work was arduous, underpaid and...
Routledge, 2008. — 219 p. The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945), and which have been challenged by critics who favour more critical, peace and justice perspectives, goes to the heart of Japan’s sense of itself as a nation....
Routledge, 2008. — 219 p. The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945), and which have been challenged by critics who favour more critical, peace and justice perspectives, goes to the heart of Japan’s sense of itself as a...
State University of New York Press, 2015. — 256 p. Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era.Akihiro Ogawa explores Japan’s recent embrace of lifelong learning as a means by which a neoliberal state deals with risk. Lifelong learning has been heavily promoted by Japan’s policymakers, and statistics find one-third of...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 257 p. — ISBN-10 0-521-27786-8 This is a book on the contemporary health care system in urban Japan. It is not, however, the usual social science study containing only "facts" and statistics. Nor does it present cures for specific illnesses or descriptions of the effectiveness of certain herbs. Instead, it focuses on a culturally defined...
Routledge, 2014. — 224 p. Ozawa Ichirō is one of the most important figures in Japanese politics, having held the positions of Chief Secretary of the Liberal Democrat Party and, after defection from the LDP, President of the Democratic Party of Japan. Ozawa has distinctive ideas that set him apart from the average Japanese politician, he believes in the concept of the...
Routledge, 2023. — 155 p. Oren re-examines Japan’s threat perception during the first two decades of the Cold War, using a wide range of source materials, including many unavailable in English, or only recently declassified. There is a widely shared misconception that during the Cold War the Japanese were largely shielded from threats due to the American military protection,...
Columbia University Press, 2017. — 272 p. For decades after World War II, Japan chose to focus on soft power and economic diplomacy alongside a close alliance with the United States, eschewing a potential leadership role in regional and global security. Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since the rise of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's military capabilities have...
Brill, 2018. — 470 p. The Brill Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan collects seminal scholarship on the LDP including its structure and organization (e.g. factions, koenkai), historical development, policy-making, and political leadership by Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe.
University of Texas Press, 1979. — 307 p. This comprehensive treatment of post–World War II Allied war crimes trials in the Far East is a significant contribution to a neglected subject. While the Nuremberg and, to a lesser degree, Tokyo tribunals have received considerable attention, this is the first full-length assessment of the entire Far East operation, which involved some...
Penguin Press, 2014. — 416 p. Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and octogenarians. Through their...
Belknap Press, 2018. — 472 p. No nation was more deeply affected by America's rise to world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt's uncompromising policy of unconditional surrender led to the catastrophic finale of the Asia-Pacific War and the most intrusive international reconstruction of another nation in modern history. Japan in the American Century examines how...
Pantheon, 2021. — 462 p. — ISBN 9781101871119 A thoughtful, illuminating exploration of modern Japanese politics and culture through the eyes of an investigative reporter. Dreux Richard presents post-Fukushima Japan in three illustrative parts. He follows members of Japan’s Nigerian community, whose struggles with a hostile immigration system lead to the death of a Nigerian...
Pantheon, 2021. — 432 p. A thoughtful, illuminating exploration of modern Japanese politics and culture through the eyes of an investigative reporter. Dreux Richard presents post-Fukushima Japan in three illustrative parts. He follows members of Japan’s Nigerian community, whose struggles with a hostile immigration system lead to the death of a Nigerian immigrant in a Japanese...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 219 p. — isbny 978-0-521-19257-6 Despite reduced incomes, diminished opportunities for education, and the psychological trauma of defeat, Japan experienced a rapid rise in civic engagement in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Why? Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan answers this question with a new general theory of the growth in civic...
Routledge, 2021. — 394 p. Ever since Japan and the West discovered one another, Western observers have extolled the surface virtues of Japanese women but attended very little to what they are really like. In this new, balanced view of the role of Japanese women in their country's swiftly changing society, The Hidden Sun: Women of Modern Japan destroys the Western stereotype of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 306 p. This book focuses on foreign firms’ nonmarket strategies and lobbying in Japan, in which important readjustments in traditional power configuration have taken place, giving more leeway to various stakeholders. The author analyzes in-depth how firms deploy their influence in a country that used to be dubbed "the castle" due to its difficulty of...
Routledge, 2018. — 239 p. Shedding new light on how the histories of zainichi Koreans have been written, consumed, and discussed, this book addresses the roots of postwar debates concerning the wartime experiences of Koreans in Japan. Providing an overview of the complicated historiography, it explores the experiences of Koreans located at Ground Zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 262 p. With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains a formidable economy...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2020. — 441 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 442). — ISBN: 9780674244474. With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff has expanded upon and updated The People’s Emperor, his study of the monarchy’s role as a political, societal, and cultural institution in contemporary Japan. Many Japanese continue to...
Harvard University Press, 2003. — XVIII, 342 p. — ISBN 0674010884, 9780674010888. Few institutions are as well suited as the monarchy to provide a window on postwar Japan. The monarchy, which is also a family, has been significant both as a political and as a cultural institution. This comprehensive study analyzes numerous issues, including the role of individual emperors in...
Routledge, 1997. — 270 p. This book considers the language, ideology, and identity of three generations of North Koreans in Japan organized around Chongryun. It explores how, over three generations, individuals and the community reconcile cope with changing attitudes and approaches toward Japanese society and Korean culture.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 276 p. — ISBN 978-981-13-9820-9 This book provides an in-depth investigation of two Japanese men's magazines, ChokiChoki and Men's egg, analysed as representative examples of the genre of Japanese lifestyle magazines for young men. Employing both qualitative and quantitative content analysis, focusing on topics ranging from everyday life activities...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 296 p. On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake originating less than 50 miles off its eastern coastline. The most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan in recorded history, it produced a devastating tsunami with waves reaching heights of over 130 feet that in turn caused an unprecedented...
Cornell University Press, 1996. — 480 p. Since World War II, Japan has become not only a model producer of high-tech consumer goods, but also - despite minimal spending on defense - a leader in innovative technology with both military and civilian uses. In the United States, nearly one in every three scientists and engineers was engaged in defense-related research and...
Princeton University Press, 1983. — 318 p. This is the first major study of politics and public administration in Japan to balance the prevailing view of the regional policy process from above" with a view "from below." Developing a comparative framework for understanding the place of localities in policy making, he demonstrates that relations among localities in Japan are much...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 224 p. Japan's so-called 'peace constitution' renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation, and bans the nation from possessing any war potential. Yet Japan also maintains a large, world-class military organization, namely the Self-Defence Forces (SDF). In this book, Tomoyuki Sasaki explores how the SDF enlisted popular support from civil society...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 1985. — 366 p. The End of the Pacific War Remaking Japan, 1945 to 1948 Northeast Asia and the Pacific, 1945 to 1947 Reinterpeting the Postwar World An Aborted Treaty The Conservative Response to Liberal Reform Setting a New Course Regional Economic Integration and the Rise of Southeast Asia The Peace Treaty: Trying Again Japanese Recovery...
Stanford University Press, 1997. — 368 p. This is a vivid account of the corrupt and improbable political machine that ran Japanese politics for twenty years, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, the period during which Japan became the world's second-largest economy.
Kent State University Press, 1989. — 347 p. Joseph C. Grew: The Emperor of Japan and Planning the Occupation. Douglas MacArthur: The Peacemaker and the Presidency. T. A. Bisson: The Limits of Reform in Occupied Japan. James S. Killen: American Labor's Cold War in Occupied Japan. William H. Draper, Jr.: The Eightieth Congress and the Origins of Japan's ‘Reverse Course’. Joseph...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. — 786 p. — ISBN 978-1-324-00299-4 Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men,...
Routledge, 2007. — 272 p. Japan's Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Second World War history. Focusing particularly on 1972 onwards, the period starts with the normalization of relations with China and the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972, and ends with the...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. — 408 p. Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches to postwar democracy. In the last six decades, the demands placed upon postwar democracy have shifted considerably—from social protest through high...
Columbia University Press, 2009. — 298 p. By rereading the pivotal events, iconic figures, and crucial texts of Japan's literary and artistic life through the lens of the Cold War, Ann Sherif places this supposedly insular nation at the center of a global battle. Each of her chapters focuses on a major moment, spectacle, or critical debate highlighting Japan's entanglement with...
Springer, 2023. — 116 р. — ISBN 978-981-99-5850-4 The world population is expected to expand by 39.4% to 9.6 billion in 2060 (UN World Population Prospects, revised 2010). Meanwhile, Japan is expected to see its population contract by nearly one third to 86.7 million, and its proportion of the elderly (65 years of age and over) will account for no less than 39.9% (National...
Springer, 2022. — 314 p. — ISBN 978-981-16-6537-0 On October 1, 1964, the world’s f i rst high-speed commercial train, known as the Shinkansen (which means “new trunk line”), began operating. It was the f i rst in the world to operate at a speed of more than 200 km/h. In Europe at the time, the maximum operating speed for trains was 160 km/h, and the general consensus was that...
Routledge, 2019. — 286 p. — ISBN 978-1-138-31039-1. The recent manifestation of exclusionism in Japan has emerged at a time of intensified neoliberal economic policies, increased cross-border migration brought on by globalization, the elevated threat of global terrorism, heightened tensions between East Asian states over historical and territorial conf l icts, and a backlash by...
Fordham University Press, 2019. — 272 p. Looks at how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946. Describes the reality of what happened on Okinawa in terms of U.S. forces coming to grips with a civilian...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 214 p. Systematically analyses the impact of external military crises on Japanese security policy expansion in the post-Cold War period. Focuses on the widening of Japan’s security posture in external security affairs and investigates the causes of this critical change. Identifies the external military crisis as a critical determinant of...
Stanford University Press, 2018. — 384 p. Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators. Japan is a startling exception, with...
Harvard University Press, 2019. — 352 p. Japan’s U.S.–imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, as Sheila Smith shows, a nuclear North Korea and an increasingly assertive China have the Japanese rethinking that commitment, and their reliance on United States security. Japan has one of Asia’s most technologically advanced militaries and yet...
Holt, Rinehart, 1975. — 192 p. — ISBN-10 0030136318; ISBN-13 978-0030136313. Minamata is a fishing and farming town on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. Its people joined the industrial age when the Chisso Corporation built a chemical factory there. The disaster that then befell them, and the ways in which some have managed to respond, reach far beyond Japan. Their...
University of Toronto Press, 2011. — 240 p. For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of sophistication. Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic and geographically comparative discussion of the unique limitations of Japanese foreign and defence policy. The contributors reappraise...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 268 p. — ISBN 978-1-137-60166-7 “Power is not just one of the things social scientists study, but the cen-tral thing,” claims Jonathan Hearn and we agree with him (Hearn 2012 , p. 3). This book examines how people in Japan attain and use power in its manifestations as status, inf l uence, legitimacy, knowledge, or authority across society and...
University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. — 193 р. — ISBN 9780824872137 Takada-san, a mother in her early thirties, worked as a salesperson at a seafood shop in Tokyo that opened after the Great East Japan Earthquake (usually referred to as 3.11—March 11, 2011).¹ The shop’s mission was to support the revival of the fishing industry in Tohoku in northeastern Japan—the region where the...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 423 p. — ISBN: 0-19-508949-9. It has now been transformed by globalization forces that have led not so much to an opening up of the country, although that has to some extent happened, as to Japan's restructuring its system on an internationalized--and especially regionally--cohesive basis. The most interesting lessons to be learned from Japan...
Routledge, 2019. — 202 p. The human rights issues in Japan are multifaceted. Over decades, domestic and international human rights organisations have raised concerns, but government obstinacy has meant there has been little progress. Recommendations of UN human rights bodies are routinely ignored, and statements by the government in the Japanese parliament regarding these...
Routledge, 2020. — 532 p. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan presents a synthesized, interdisciplinary study of contemporary Japan based on up-to-date theoretical models designed to provide readers with a comprehensive and full understanding of the dynamics of contemporary Japan. In order to achieve this, the Handbook is organized into two parts. Part I,...
Routledge, 2021. — 532 p. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan presents a synthesized, interdisciplinary study of contemporary Japan based on up-to-date theoretical models designed to provide readers with a comprehensive and full understanding of the dynamics of contemporary Japan. In order to achieve this, the Handbook is organized into two parts. Part I,...
Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 131 p. Japan and Reconciliation in Post-war Asia considers former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama's 1995 apology statement, the height of Japan's post-war apology, and examines its implications for memory, international relations, and reconciliation in Asia. Taking a comparative approach and situating discussion within broader debates about...
Brill, 2005. — 510 p. This book describes major aspects of Japanese foreign policy from WWII to the present. Bilateral relations with the US, China, Korea, Southeast Asia, Russia, Europe and the Middle East as well as multilateral diplomacy are analysed. Written by a former diplomat who was deeply involved in major issues of postwar Japanese foreign policy, it provides fascinating...
Washington: National Council for the Social Studies, 1992. — 126 p. — ISBN-0-87986-070-7. "Tora no Maki" or "Scroll of the Tiger" is a teacher's guide designed to aid in teaching appropriate standards for social studies content and skills, using a contemporary focus on Japan's culture and economy. The 19 lessons are divided into three grade levels: elementary school, middle...
Washington: National Council for the Social Studies, 1997. — 180 p. — ISBN-0-87986-074-X. "Tora no Maki" or "Scroll of the Tiger" is a teacher's guide designed to aid in teaching appropriate standards for social studies content and skills, using a contemporary focus on Japan's culture and economy. Topics of the 22 lessons include: group culture, school population, economics,...
Washington: National Council for the Social Studies, 1998. — 267 p. — ISBN ISBN-0-87986-077-4. The elements of Japan, including history, geography, economics, civics, and cultural studies, are in this collection of original lesson plans. The lessons are meant to provide original content about Japan to augment and supplement an existing unit of study and evoke a spirit of...
Routledge, 2003. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 0415312183. — ISBN-13 978-0415312189. This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after it had ended. It explores their return to Japan and their impact on the Japanese people, revealing changing attitudes to war veterans and war...
Routledge, 2010. — 188 p. Shunsuke Tsurumi, one of Japan's most distinguished contemporary philosophers, continues his study of the intellectual and social history of modern Japan with this penetrating analysis of popular culture in the post-war years. Japanese manga (comics), manzai (dialogues), television, advertising and popular songs are the medium for a revealing...
Routledge, 2010. — 221 p. This book offers an empirical and theoretical study of the Koizumi administration, covering such issues as the characteristics of its political style, its domestic and foreign policies, and its larger historical significance. The key questions that guide its approach are: what enabled Koizumi to exercise unusually strong leadership, and what structural...
New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. — x+176 p. This book challenges the widespread belief that overzealous Americans forced unnecessary script reforms on an unprepared, unenthusiastic, but helpless Japan during the Occupation. Unger presents neglected historical evidence showing that the reforms implemented from 1946 to 1959 were both necessary and moderate. Although the...
Cornell University Press, 2006. — 257 p. As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. They questioned the very institutions that had been credited with Japan's past success: a powerful bureaucracy guiding the economy, close government-industry...
Verso, 2020. — 272 p. The analysis of May 68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is not only a year that conjures up images of Paris, Frankfurt, or Milan: it is also the pivotal year for a new anti-colonial and anti-capitalist politics to erupt across the Third World, a crucial and central moment in the history, thought, and politics...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 264 p. Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated over six million Japanese nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout Asia and deported more than a million colonial subjects from Japan to their countries of origin. Depicted at the time as a postwar measure related to the demobilization of defeated...
Tuttle Publishing, 2024. — 815 p. — ISBN 978-4-8053-1798-3 "Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades—he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball players, the bookies...better than anyone alive." —Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice Critically acclaimed author and...
Routledge, 1995. — 368 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies).
The central argument of Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science is that Eurocentric blindness is not a moral but a scientific failing. In this wide-ranging critique of Western social science, Anglo-American philosophy and French theory, Williams works on the premise that Japan is the most...
Routledge, 1993. — 260 p. — (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies).
In Japan: Beyond the End of History , David Williams examines Japan's significance, both in fact and in theory, for the Western traditions of political philosophy and practice--from Adam Smith and Hegel to the French deconstructionists and today's ''end of history'' theorists. He covers issues ranging...
Routledge, 2018. — 261 р. — ISBN: 978-0-415-70378-9 This is a serious, accessible and extremely important book that provides, for the fi rst time in English, an introduction to Japan’s adult video industry. Offering an in-depth historical overview of the postwar development of adult pornography, alongside a close ethnographic reading of its sites of production and consump-tion,...
Routledge, 2014. — 211 p. Since the early 1990s, there has been a clear evolution in the military dimension of Japanese diplomacy. From Gulf War I in 1991 to the present day, an incremental but unmistakable acceptance of, and resort to, military dispatches has taken place, and yet crucially, Japan has not morphed into a traditional military power. Exploring Japan’s involvement...
Routledge, 2003. — 241 p. Ever since Japan's economy recovered in the 1960s, scholars have been searching for the reasons for its meteoric postwar success. Until now, much research has been based on the study of Japan's society, its political and economic infrastructure, and its particular model of capitalism. But now that American and British government documents from the 1950s...
Routledge, 2020. — 264 p. This book analyses institutional reforms implemented by Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, under his second administration from 2012 to 2020. Also examined is the evolution in the role of such actors in Japanese politics as bureaucrats, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) factions, and backbenchers of the ruling party. Chapters offer multi-dimensional...
М.: ИДВ РАН, 2009. — 236 с. — ISBN: 975-5-8381-0171-6. Настоящий выпуск ежегодного сборника содержит материалы по внутри- и внешнеполитическим, финансовым, юридическим, образовательным проблемам Японии. В статьях рассматриваются, в частности, политические перемены, произошедшие в Японии в 2006–2008 гг., анализируются различные аспекты отношений Японии с США, Китаем, а также...
М.: ИДВ РАН, 2012. — 208 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8381-0214-0. Настоящий выпуск ежегодника посвящён проблемам внутренней и внешней политики, экономики, общества, науки и технологии, культуры и истории восточного соседа нашей страны—Японии. Темы статей: разведсообщество Японии, история российско-японских отношений, банки Японии после краха экономики "мыльного пузыря", здравоохранение...
Ответственный редактор В.О. Кистанов. — М.: Институт Дальнего Востока РАН, 2018. — 296 с. Сборник статей издается Центром японских исследований Института Дальнего Востока РАН с 1986 г. Авторы сборника — сотрудники Центра японских исследований ИДВ РАН и ученые-востоковеды из других научных центров России. В настоящем выпуске рассматриваются вопросы политики, экономики Японии, а...
М.: Наука, 1974. — 137 с. В книге рассматривается социально-экономическое положение научно-технических работников в Японии. В центре внимания автора стоят такие вопросы, как занятость и положение этих работников на рынке рабочей силы, система подготовки кадров, особенности их эксплуатации капиталом, участие в экономической и политической борьбе прогрессивных сил Японии.
М.: Наука, 1974. — 137 с. В книге рассматривается социально-экономическое положение научно-технических работников в Японии. В центре внимания автора стоят такие вопросы, как занятость и положение этих работников на рынке рабочей силы, система подготовки кадров, особенности их эксплуатации капиталом, участие в экономической и политической борьбе прогрессивных сил Японии.
Пер. А. Слащевой. — Бостон; СПб.: Academic Studies Press; БиблиоРоссика, 2024. — 450 с. — (Современное востоковедение). — ISBN 978-5-907767-59-1. В своей книге Эндрю Баршай представляет исторический обзор основных японских социологических тенденций с 1890-х годов до наших дней и рассматривает два наиболее мощных течения японской социальной науки. Одно из них связано с...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1952. — 564 с. «Японский дневник» Марка Гейна показывает политику Соединенных Штатов на Дальнем Востоке в первые годы оккупации Японии. М.Гейн - американский журналист. Он был хорошо знаком с Дальним Востоком и до войны побывал в различных странах Восточной Азии. Вскоре после капитуляции Японии он приехал в эту страну в качестве...
М.: АИРО–XXI. 2008. — 308 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91022-061-8. Коллективная монография показывает, что нового происходит в Японии и как страна вписывается в картину современного мира периода глобализации. Речь идет, прежде всего, о самоидентификации Японии, уточнения которой требуют вызовы глобализации; об истории трансформации национальной идеи, которая в настоящее время обретает...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1987. — 186 с. В монографии рассмотрены программы и проекты совершенствования промышленности и инфраструктуры Японии, планы построения в стране «общества информации». Показаны достижения Японии в области робототехники, в создании новых видов электронно-вычислительной техники, систем связи, энергосберегающего оборудования и т. д....
М.: ИДВ РАН, 2013. — 96 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8381-0234-8. Работа посвящена анализу японских прогнозов мирового инновационного развития, опубликованных в Японии в период 1982–2010 гг., а также методическим особенностям их разработки. Подробно излагается содержание проанализированной японскими экспертами научно-технической тематики, приведены оценки ее актуальности и вероятные сроки...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 194 с. В работе освещается история возникновения и принципы организации, а также идеологические концепции влиятельной буддийской секты Сока-гаккай и созданной ею партии Комэйто. Сока-гаккай и Комэйто сумели привлечь симпатии значительного числа японцев. Комэйто находилась в оппозиции правящей Либерально-демократической партии, которая, однако, была...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1977. — 144 с. с ил. Автор книги В. Дунаев, долгое время работавший в Японии в качестве корреспондента АПН, не претендует на последовательное раскрытие общественно-политических проблем Японии. Но та мозаичность, которой отличается эта книга, многообразие жизненных ситуаций, человеческих судеб, личные наблюдения и впечатления автора - все это позволяет в...
М.: Наука, Издательская фирма «Восточная литература», 1992. — 215 с. — ISBN: 5-02-017097-6. В работе исследуются политические организации и сознание, политические нормы и отношения в современном японском обществе. Рассматриваются проблемы распространения в современном японском обществе «среднеклассового» сознания и консервативных настроений. Стабильности пребывания у власти...
М.: Восточная литература, 2002. — 207 с. — ISBN: 5-02-018299-0. Коллективная монография посвящена изменениям в японском обществе под влиянием процесса глобализации. В работе исследуется широкий спектр проблем, связанных со становлением нового мирового порядка в сфере внешней политики, обеспечения национальной безопасности, государственного управления, экономики, науки и...
М., «Наука», Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1988 – 137 с. Монография посвящена исследованию места и роли проблем военной политики в борьбе правящей и оппозиционных партий в послевоенной Японии. В работе прослеживается изменение взглядов оппозиции по военным вопросам и влияние этих изменений на эффективность ее противостояния курсу консерваторов на превращение Японии в...
М.: ИДВ РАН, 2017. — 288 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8381-0325-3 Сборник статей издаётся Центром японских исследований ИДВ РАН с 1968 г. Авторы сборника — сотрудники Центра японских исследований ИДВ РАН и учёные востоковеды из других научных центров России. В настоящем выпуске рассматриваются вопросы политики, экономики Японии, а также истории и культуры этой страны. Сборник рассчитан на...
Перевод с японского Е. А. Пигулевской. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1956. — 416 с.
В книге "Иностранный капитал в Японии" рассматриваются проблемы, связанные с деятельностью иностранного и прежде всего американского капитала в Японии после второй мировой войны. В книге показаны формы и методы проникновения американских монополий в Японию и разоблачается...
Перевод с японского Е. А. Пигулевской. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1956. — 416 с.
В книге "Иностранный капитал в Японии" рассматриваются проблемы, связанные с деятельностью иностранного и прежде всего американского капитала в Японии после второй мировой войны. В книге показаны формы и методы проникновения американских монополий в Японию и разоблачается...
Образотворчого мистецтва і музичної літератури УРСР, 1962. — 246 с. М. Козловський двічі побував в Японії — 1957 та 1960 рр„ відвідав найбільші адміністративні й промислові міста цієї острівної держави, найвизначніші куточки її. На сторінках цїєї книги автор не лише ділиться своїми враженнями й почуттями, але й передав їх у фотознімках, які становлять більшу частину видання....
М.: Восточная литература, 1998. — 319 с. — ISBN: 5-02-018040-8. В книге представлены новейшие исследования, посвященные правительственной политике в различных сферах социально-экономической и культурной жизни Японии в послевоенный период (после 1945г.). Анализируются причины эффективности и механизм политики на том или ином направлении (налоговая, финансово-административная,...
М.: Восточная литература, 1999. — 335 с. — ISBN: 5-02-018128-5. В коллективной монографии ведущих российских японоведов изучен широкий круг проблем, процессов и тенденций в социальной, экономической и культурной жизни современной Японии с точки зрения соответствия сложившихся в массовом сознании стереотипов реальной действительности страны восходящего солнца. При чтении книги...
М.: Восточная литература, 1998. — 280 с. — ISBN: 5-02-018040-8. В книге рассмотрены новейшие сдвиги и тенденции в политической, экономической и социальной жизни современной Японии, которая в 90-х годах столкнулась с обширным набором проблем, связанных с необходимостью перехода страны от модели «догоняющего развития», исчерпавшей себя во многих отношениях, к новой модели,...
М.: Издательская фирма «Восточная литература» РАН, 1997. — 135 с. — ISBN: 5-02-017095-X В монографии рассматривается эволюция внешнеполитических интересов Японии в отношении России. Особое внимание уделено теме: традиции и современность во взглядах японской элиты на угрозу безопасности со стороны России. Кроме того, автор останавливается на изменении подходов Японии к...
Благовещенск: БГПУ, 2022. — 288 с. В книге предпринята попытка составить общее представление о таком уникальном явлении, которое имеет отношение к истории Второй мировой войны 1939-1945 гг. и ее последствиям, как сопротивление военнослужащих Императорской армии Японии (Хироо Онода и др.) после капитуляции Японской империи 2 сентября 1945 г. Настоящее издание предназначено для...
Москва: Издательство ЦК ВЛКСМ "Молодая гвардия", 1948. — 248 с.
Репортаж советского журналиста о поездке в Японию в 1947 году. Очерковая книга о послевоенной оккупационной Японии.
М.: Наука, 1970. — 65 с. На основании данных японской печати автор анализирует условия жизни широких слоев населения, и в частности рабочего класса, Японии в условиях «экономического чуда». От автора. "Бум Идзанаги" и японские футурологи. Кто пожинает плоды экономического бума? О семейном бюджете "среднего японца". Государство неразрешимых социальных проблем. Экономический бум...
М.: Наука, 1970. — 65 с. На основании данных японской печати автор анализирует условия жизни широких слоев населения, и в частности рабочего класса, Японии в условиях «экономического чуда». От автора "Бум Идзанаги" и японские футурологи Кто пожинает плоды экономического бума? О семейном бюджете "среднего японца" Государство неразрешимых социальных проблем Экономический бум и...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1984. — 291 с. В сборник включены доклады ведущих советских японоведов, а также японских ученых, подготовленные для советско-японского симпозиума, который состоялся в Ленинграде в июле 1982г. В совокупности эти доклады дадут читателям представление о современной структуре господства правящих кругов Японии, а также...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1967. — 338 с. В книге показана роль правящей либерально-демократической партии Японии как проводника интересов японской монополистической буржуазии. Рассказывается о закулисных связях руководства партии с магнатами финансового капитала, о программе и пропагандистских лозунгах партии, о внутрипартийной жизни и борьбе различных...
М., Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1968. — 111 с. В книге показаны структура и методы работы центральных административных учреждений Японии, включая кабинет министров, министерства и другие ведомства страны. Автор рассказывает о жизни чиновничьего мира Японии, о бюрократических порядках, царящих в стенах правительственных учреждений, о причинах безудержного роста...
М.: Восточная литература, 2008. — 238 с. — ISBN: 978-5-02-036376-2. В коллективной монографии исследуется широкий круг вопросов экономического, политического и культурного развития «страны восходящего солнца» в начале 21 в.: положение экономики в условиях демографического спада, роль консерватизма в японской внутренней политике, место Либерально-демократической партии в...
М.: ИВ РАН, 2007. — 223 с.
В монографии представлена широкая панорама развития японской промышленности на протяжении более чем полувекового периода. Показаны особенности ее эволюции на различных этапах, приводится классификация предприятий по совокупности качественных и количественных характеристик. На примере промышленной политики и политики поддержки малого бизнеса показан...
М.: АИРО-XXI, 2010. — 284 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91022-121-9. Коллективная монография посвящена анализу исторического периода, связанного с полувековым правлением Либерально-демократической партии. В это время проходило укоренение демократии в стране, превращение Японии во вторую экономическую державу, становление ее полноправным членом клуба наиболее развитых стран мира. Задача...
М.: Наука, 1988. - 169 с.
В монографии анализируется механизм политической власти в современной (на момент выходы книги) Японии, рассматривается структура правящих кругов страны и система взаимодействия входящих в нее группировок, исследуются основные этапы принятия важнейших правительственных решений по внутриполитическим вопросам. Книга будет полезна историкам,...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1974. — 190 с. В книге освещаются вопросы организации и финансирования научно-исследовательских и опытно-конструкторских работ, подготовки научно-технических кадров в японской промышленности. Большое внимание уделяется вопросам использования достижений мировой науки и техники, уровню и роли собственных научных исследований в...
М.: Советский писатель, 1963. — 316 с. Путевая повесть. Древность и прогресс Японцы и мы Мир и война Японка и общество Молодежь и будущее Красота и труд Поэзия и правда Гнет и борьба
М.: ИФ РАН, 2001. — 157 с. — ISBN 5-201-02146-8.
Работа представляет собой исследование японской общесоциологической мысли 50—70-х гг. XX столетия. Объектом анализа являются построения таких видных японских социологов того времени, как К. Мацусита, К. Томинага, Т. Наканэ и Ё. Коганэ. Их доктрины подразделены на техницистски ориентированные (К. Мацусита, К. Томинага) и...
М.: Моногатари, 2011. — 302 с. Новая монография доктора политических наук В.Э. Молодякова посвящена неизученным в отечественной науке проблемам идейной и политической жизни современной Японии, связанным с эволюцией национальной идеи, восприятием исторического прошлого, попытками создать позитивный образ своей страны в мире. С учетом актуальности этих проблем для современной...
Москва: Моногатари, 2011. — 304 с. — ISBN 978-5-91840-006-7. Новая монография доктора политических наук В.Э. Молодякова посвящена неизученным в отечественной науке проблемам идейной и политической жизни современной Японии, связанным с эволюцией национальной идеи, восприятием исторического прошлого, попытками создать позитивный образ своей страны в мире. С учетом актуальности...
М.: АИРО-XX, 2004. — 284 с. Коллективная монография, подготовленная ведущими российскими учеными-японоведами, охватывает все основные аспекты отношений между Россией и Японией на рубеже XX-XXI веков. В книге дана комплексная характеристика современного состояния двусторонних связей, показаны как их достижения, так и нерешенные проблемы. Особое внимание уделено таким...
Коллективная монография. — М.: АИРО–XXI, 2007. — 308 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91022-037-3. Единым стержнем всех глав книги является мысль о том, как Япония в начале 21 века открывает себя миру, как японцы взаимодействуют с другими народами. Монография состоит из двенадцати глав, которые можно разделить на три блока. В первом рассмотрены проблемы «самооценки» японской нации, политика...
М.: АИРО-XXI, 2012. — 224 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91022-157-8. Монография коллектива японоведов посвящена событиям 11 марта 2011 г. в Японии, которые соединили в себе крупнейшие стихийные бедствия ‒ землетрясение и цунами со страшной техногенной катастрофой ‒ аварией на атомной электростанции «Фукусима-1». Они вышли за национальные рамки и приобрели поистине мировой характер....
М.: Институт научной информации по общественным наукам (ИНИОН) РАН, 1987. — 52 с. Работа посвящена японскому государственному деятелю правой идейно-политической ориентации Ясухиро Накасонэ, занимавшему пост премьер-министра Японии с 1982 по 1987 год.
М.: ИНИОН АН СССР, 1985 – 76 с. Настоящий обзор посвящен анализу политики правительства ЛДП и положения внутри партии в 198I-1983 гг. Как особо важные выделены проблемы отношения электората к ЛДП в 1960-1980 гг., фракционной структуры партии, а также влияния Танака Какуэй на политическую жизнь Японии. Обзор написан на основе японской и западной научной литературы, а также...
М.: Печатные Традиции, 2010. — 341 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91561-040-7 Перед вами 44 рассказа японских школьников и студентов, написанные спустя шесть лет после атомной бомбардировки Хиросимы 6 августа 1945 года. Во время трагедии им было от четырех до тринадцати лет, и события тех дней они сохранили в своей памяти на всю жизнь. Профессор Осада Арата, философ и педагог, основоположник...
М.: МАКС Пресс, 2000. — 256 с. — ISBN: 5-317-00108-0. В коллективной монографии коллектива авторов рассматриваются основные факторы устойчивого развития Японии, благодаря которому она останется одним из мировых центров и в начале XXI в. Анализируются общее состояние экономики страны, геоэкономический и демографический ресурсы, социальная политика и ее результаты,...
М.: МАКС Пресс, 2008. — 232 с. — ISBN: 978-5-317-02658-5. В коллективной монографии, подготовленной учеными-японоведами Центра исследований Японии Института Дальнего Востока РАН, рассматриваются конкретные аспекты противодействия Японии некоторым глобальным «вызовам», которые реально и потенциально представляют непосредственную угрозу национальной безопасности страны. В работе...
М.: Восток-Запад, 2010. — 288 с.
Данное исследование, основанное на изучении обширного документального материала, посвящено анализу японских послевоенных реформ, обеспечивших модернизацию государственного и социального устройства, определивших вектор развития страны на многие десятилетия и создавших современную Японию. Автор, известный японист, дает комплексную картину...
М.: Восток-Запад, 2010. — 288 с.
Данное исследование, основанное на изучении обширного документального материала, посвящено анализу японских послевоенных реформ, обеспечивших модернизацию государственного и социального устройства, определивших вектор развития страны на многие десятилетия и создавших современную Японию. Автор, известный японист, дает комплексную картину...
М.: Мысль, 1973. — 454 с. — (Экономика и политика стран современного капитализма). В книге рассматриваются технико-экономические и социально-политические факторы, обусловившие сравнительно высокие темпы экономического роста Японии до конца 60-х годов, и порожденные этим ростом новые антагонистические противоречия. Авторский коллектив сосредоточивает внимание на всестороннем...
М.: Мысль, 1973. — 454 с. — (Экономика и политика стран современного капитализма). В книге рассматриваются технико-экономические и социально-политические факторы, обусловившие сравнительно высокие темпы экономического роста Японии до конца 60-х годов, и порожденные этим ростом новые антагонистические противоречия. Авторский коллектив сосредоточивает внимание на всестороннем...
М.: Мысль, 1981. — 429 с. — (Современный монополистический капитализм, в 8-ми кн.). Книга посвящена анализу основных причин и последствий глубокого кризиса экономики Японии в середине 70-х годов, обострения социальных и политических противоречий. Главное внимание уделяется процессам концентрации и централизации производства и капитала, показана механика циклического развития,...
М.: Мысль, 1981. — 429 с. — (Современный монополистический капитализм, в 8-ми кн.). Книга посвящена анализу основных причин и последствий глубокого кризиса экономики Японии в середине 70-х годов, обострения социальных и политических противоречий. Главное внимание уделяется процессам концентрации и централизации производства и капитала, показана механика циклического развития,...
М.: Издательство восточной литературы, 1963. — 500 с. От редактора. Новые явления в развитии монополистического капитализма Японии после второй мировой войны. Неравномерность развития капитализма и место Японии в системе современного империализма. Структурные изменения в японской экономике после второй мировой войны и обострение социально-экономических противоречий. Монополии и...
М.: Издательство восточной литературы, 1963. — 500 с. От редактора. Новые явления в развитии монополистического капитализма Японии после второй мировой войны. Неравномерность развития капитализма и место Японии в системе современного империализма. Структурные изменения в японской экономике после второй мировой войны и обострение социально-экономических противоречий. Монополии и...
М.: «Наука». Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1981. — 179 с. Монография посвящена политике, идеологии, теории и практике японской правой социал-демократии на примере реформистской Партии демократического социализма (ПДС). Обстоятельно рассмотрены ее отношения с ЛДП, левыми и центристскими партиями Японии в 1960-1980 гг.
М.: «Наука», Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1975. - 328 с.
В книге, выпущенной под грифом «для научных библиотек», рассказывается о возникновении и политической деятельности Социалистической партии Японии, выступавшей против американо-японского военного союза. Подробно раскрывается позиция партии по ключевым вопросам внутренней и внешней политики Японии в 1945-1972 гг.
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1978. — 541 с. Качество: Отсканированные страницы + слой распознанного текста. В книге излагается политическая, экономическая и культурная история Японии после второй мировой войны - борьба классов и политических партий, внешняя политика правительства и борьба в стране по внешнеполитическим проблемам, крупные...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1978. — 541 с. В книге излагается политическая, экономическая и культурная история Японии после второй мировой войны - борьба классов и политических партий, внешняя политика правительства и борьба в стране по внешнеполитическим проблемам, крупные изменения в экономическом развитии страны. Значительное место отводится истории...
М.: Восточная литература, 1958. - 41 с.
Монография В.А. Попова посвящена послевоенному периоду крестьянского движения в Японии.
Проиграв во Второй мировой войне, Япония была предельно разорена. Почти все крупные города оказались разрушены. В августе 1945-го силами Союзников началась оккупация Японии, которая закончилась весной 1952-го. Главнокомандующим был генерал Макартур....
М.: Восточная литература, 1958. - 41 с.
Монография В.А. Попова посвящена послевоенному периоду крестьянского движения в Японии.
Проиграв во Второй мировой войне, Япония была предельно разорена. Почти все крупные города оказались разрушены. В августе 1945-го силами Союзников началась оккупация Японии, которая закончилась весной 1952-го. Главнокомандующим был генерал Макартур....
М.: АИРО–XXI, 2006. — 288 с. — ISBN: 5-91022-002-0. В книге впервые в отечественной литературе сделана попытка комплексного «портретирования» общества второй индустриальной державы мира не «сверху вниз», с точки зрения государственных структур и институтов, правовых норм и идеологем, а «снизу вверх» – от индивидуума к целому. Детально рассмотрены относительно малоизученные...
М.: Издательская фирма «Восточная литература» РАН, 1999. — 295 с. — ISBN: 5-02-018091-2 В коллективной монографии процессы, происходящие в Японии, вписаны в контекст глобальных процессов и тенденций. Исследованы модель японской демократии, опыт борьбы с преступностью, японская модель религиозной жизни, участие Японии в операциях ООН и многое другое. В. Рамзес. Резюме Т....
М.: Восточная Литература, 1998. — 202 с. — ISBN: 5020180211. В. Рамзес. Резюме. В. Рамзес. К новым системам. Е. Леонтьева. Японская экономика: регламентации и дерегулирование. Э. Молодякова, С. Маркарьян. Перманентная реформа образования. А. Загорский. Возможности реформы партийной системы. В. Молодяков. Моделирование образа Японии. В. Амиров. Эволюция роли Японии в АТР (взгляд...
М.: Восточная литература, 1998. — 231 с. — ISBN: 5-02-018022-Х. В коллективном труде исследованы экономические, социальные и политические сдвиги, произошедшие в Японии в 1990-х годах: дерегулирование японской финансовой системы, изменения в системе социального обеспечения, эволюция общественного мнения, реорганизация партийной системы, политическая реформа, перемены во...
М.: Восточная литература РАН, 1999 – 359 с. ISBN: 5-02-018141-2. В коллективном труде российских японоведов рассмотрены такие темы, как образ жизни и ценности современной японской молодежи, культура быта японцев, японская литература, традиционные художественные формы японской культуры накануне 3-го тысячелетия, многообразие театрального мира Японии и многое другое. Содержание....
М.: Восточная Литература, 2001. — 296 с. — ISBN: 5-02-018296-6. В. Рамзес. Резюме. В. Рамзес. Что-то слышится в ветре. Е. Леонтьева. Третья волна великих реформ. И. Тимонина. Децентрализация: возможности регионов и укрепление национальной экономики. Ю. Денисов. О японском научно-техническом лидерстве. В. Амиров. Внешнеэкономические связи в период структурного кризиса. А....
М.: Восточная Литература, 2003. — 318 с. — ISBN: 5-02-018391-1. Статьи, вошедшие в сборник работ российских японоведов, посвящены таким темам как роль СМИ в жизни японского общества, особенности правосознания современных японцев, иммиграция в Японию, дискуссии о «нанкинской резне» в Японии и др. В. Рамзес. Resume. В. Рамзес. Мэйврик на фоне хроники текущих событий. В. Зайцев....
М.: Восточная литература, 2007. — 351 с. — ISBN: 978-5-02-036324-3. Коллективный труд посвящен политическим и экономическим изменениям, произошедшим в Японии в период пребывания на посту премьера Д. Коидзуми. Авторский коллектив. В. Рамзес. Summary. В. Рамзес. Д.Коидзуми завершает свою миссию. В. Зайцев. Реформы финансовой системы Японии. Е. Леонтьева. Японская корпоративная...
М.: АИРО–XX, 2004. — 284 с. — ISBN: 5-88735-129-2 Коллективная монография, подготовленная российскими японоведами, охватывает все основные аспекты отношений между Россией и Японией на рубеже XX−XXI веков. В книге дана комплексная характеристика современного состояния двусторонних связей, показаны как их достижения, так и нерешенные проблемы. Особое внимание уделено таким...
М.: Институт Дальнего Востока РАН, 2004. - 206 с.
В монографии представлено комплексное исследование осуществляемой в Японии административной реформы. В работе рассматриваются предпосылки, планы, достижения и проблемы на основных направлениях административной реформы, а также её место среди других японских структурных преобразований.
М.: Восточная литература, 1995. — 352 с. — ISBN: 5-02-017780-6. Книга является комплексным исследованием истории главных политических партий Японии и их идейных платформ в 1945-1992 гг. Из-за типографского брака текст на десяти страницах отсутствует.
Перевод с японского В.В. Козина, Л.З. Левина, Е.В. Цвирова. — М.: Прогресс, 1973. — 280 с. Предисловие. Американские военные базы - угроза безопасности Японии. Военный союз с США и его роль в возрождении японского милитаризма. Силы самообороны Японии и их новая роль в азиатской стратегии США. Четвёртый план "укрепления обороны" Японии. "Ползучая" милитаризация Японии....
М.: Воениздат, 1968. — 218 с. На основе документальных материалов и оригинальных источников, опубликованных в том числе на японском языке, автор исследует формы и методы возрождения милитаризма в Японии после второй мировой войны. В книге рассматривается характер военно-технической революции, структурные сдвиги в военно-промышленной базе, методы возрождения и усиления...
М.: Воениздат, 1968. — 218 с. На основе документальных материалов и оригинальных источников, опубликованных в том числе на японском языке, автор исследует формы и методы возрождения милитаризма в Японии после второй мировой войны. В книге рассматривается характер военно-технической революции, структурные сдвиги в военно-промышленной базе, методы возрождения и усиления...
М.: «Наука». Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1982 – 216 с.
В монографии анализируется взаимодействие между экономикой и системой образования в послевоенной Японии. Автор показывает движущие силы в развитии системы образования, разделение ролей между государством и частным бизнесом в подготовке кадров, перестройку системы образования в 1970-е годы.
М.: Восточная литература, 2012. — 206 с. — ISBN: 978-5-02-036490-5. Проект посвящен актуальным проблемам социально-экономического развития Японии в начале второго десятилетия XXI в. В сборнике рассмотрены вопросы нехватки трудовых ресурсов и потребности в более гибкой иммиграционной политике на фоне стареющего общества, изменений ценностных ориентиров японской молодежи,...
Japan after the Change of Power / Институт востоковедения РАН: Ассоциация японоведов. — М.: Восточная литература, 2011. — 199 с. — ISBN: 978-5-02-036448-6. В книге, подготовленной российскими японоведами, рассматриваются те изменения, которые произошли в Японии в экономической, политической и социально-культурной областях после прихода в сентябре 2009 г. к власти...
Московский государственный институт международных отношений (университет) МИД России; Ин-т востоковедения РАН. — М.: ИВЛ, 2019. — 239 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6041860-2-2. Монография представляет собой комплексное исследование «системы 1955 года» (1955–1993) – во многом уникального для демократических обществ феномена политической власти доминантной партии в Японии периода холодной...
Москва: МАКС Пресс, 2002. — 304 с. — ISBN: 5-317-00590-6 Монография представляет собой комплексное исследование исторических, конституционно-правовых, политологических аспектов административной системы послевоенной Японии. Особый упор в работе сделан на процесс реформирования государственных органов управления. Фактура работы позволяет видеть те системные проблемы, которые...
М.: АИРО-XXI, 2013. — 280 с. — ISBN 978–5–91022–187–5. В монографии содержится комплексный анализ процесса модернизации политической системы Японии в 1990-е - 2010-е гг. Особое внимание автор уделяет институциональным и программно-идеологическим изменениям партийно-политической системы Японии, вопросам избирательной реформы, модификации методов и принципов принятия политических...
М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1954. — 243 с. В книге на фоне внутриполитической обстановки, сложившейся в Японии после её поражения во Второй мировой войне, рассматривается политика правых лидеров японской социалистической партии во 2-й половине 1940-х годов. Введение Внутриполитическая обстановка, сложившаяся в Японии в результате её поражения во второй мировой войне Американская...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства Наука, 1973. — 360 с. Это первая в советской литературе монография по истории рабочего движения в послевоенной Японии. В ней широко использованы оригинальные японские источники, малоизвестные советскому читателю. В книге показано развитие рабочего движения на основных исторических этапах, описываются конкретные классовые...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства Наука, 1973. — 360 с. Это первая в советской литературе монография по истории рабочего движения в послевоенной Японии. В ней широко использованы оригинальные японские источники, малоизвестные советскому читателю. В книге показано развитие рабочего движения на основных исторических этапах, описываются конкретные классовые...
М: Эксмо, 2011. - 192 с.
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М.: Восточная литература, 2000. — 303 с. — ISBN: 5-02-018240-0 Коллективная монография посвящена актуальной научной теме — роли традиций в жизни Японии. В работе исследуется широкий спектр проблем современного японского общества в сфере политики, государственного управления, права, экономики, науки и культуры. В книге раскрывается сложная противоречивая связь между...
Tokyo, 1974. — 37 p. Hara Hara Tokei (腹腹時計, Hara Hara Tokei) is a manual released in March 1974 describing tactics for guerrillas and methods of bomb-making which was an underground publication of the “wolf cell” of the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, a far-left terrorist organization responsible for serial bombings of Japanese corporations in the 1970s including the offices of...
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