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  1. Japanese-Soviet/Russian Relations since 1945

    A Difficult Peace

    By Kimie Hara

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    An original book that reviews the problems of political rapprochement in terms of foreign policy decision-making between Japan and Russia since 1945, including the infamous 'Northern Territories' dispute. Uses four bilateral summits as case studies to explore patterns, changes and tendencies in the...

    Published October 7th 1998 by Routledge

  2. The Nature of the Japanese State

    Rationality and Rituality

    By Brian J. McVeigh

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    Brian J. McVeigh uses a unique anthropological approach to step outside flawed stereotypes of Japanese society and really engage in the current debate over the role of bureaucracy in Japanese politics.To many in the West, Japan appears as a paradox: a rational, high-tech economic superpower and yet...

    Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge

  3. Interpreting History in Sino-Japanese Relations

    A Case-Study in Political Decision Making

    By Caroline Rose

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    The first book-length study to examine the re-writing of school textbooks by the Japanese Education Ministry in an attempt to play down atrocities in China during World War II. The famous textbook crisis in 1982 was at the centre of a diplomatic storm extending through the 1980s as Sino-Japanese...

    Published September 2nd 1998 by Routledge

  4. How the Japanese Learn to Work

    2nd Edition

    By R. P. Dore, Mari Sako

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    Japan is regarded as a world leader in the field of education and training for improved economic performance. Yet success in Japan is often achieved by going against what is regarded as ideal practice elsewhere. This book offers the most comprehensive review available in English of the many facets...

    Published August 12th 1998 by Routledge

  5. Japanese-German Business Relations

    Co-operation and Rivalry in the Interwar Period

    By Akira Kudo

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    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,...

    Published June 10th 1998 by Routledge

  6. Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan

    Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies

    By Helene Bowen Raddeker

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    Published October 15th 1997 by Routledge

  8. Society and the State in Interwar Japan

    Edited by Elise K. Tipton

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    The social history of Japan between the First and Second World Wars is a neglected area of study. The contributors to this volume consider factors such as nationalism, class, gender and race. They also explore the ideas and activities of a number of new social and political groups, such as the...

    Published August 27th 1997 by Routledge

  9. The Dynamics of Japan's Relations with Africa

    South Africa, Tanzania and Nigeria

    By Kweku Ampiah

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    This is the first book to examine in-depth Japan's relations with Africa. Japan's dependence on raw materials from South Africa made it impossible for Tokyo in the 1970s and 1980s to support other African states in their fight against the minority government and its policy of apartheid. Kweku...

    Published May 21st 1997 by Routledge

  10. The Right to Life in Japan

    By Noel Williams

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    The Right to Life in Japan is a study that brings new perspectives to bear on an extremely important topic for all those facing the moral dilemmas of such issues as abortion and the death penalty. It also helps to fill a gap in life, in social science and law studies of contemporary Japan.Noel...

    Published April 16th 1997 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Japan's Interventionist State: The Role of the MAFF
    By Aurelia George-Mulgan
    To Be Published June 19th 2013
  2. Technology and Industrial Growth in Pre-War Japan: The Mitsubishi-Nagasaki Shipyard 1884-1934
    By Yukiko Fukasaku
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  3. Life in a Japanese Women's College: Learning to be Ladylike
    By Brian J. McVeigh
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  4. Democracy in Post-War Japan: Maruyama Masao and the Search for Autonomy
    By Rikki Kersten
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  5. On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass
    By Carolyn S. Stevens
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  6. Academic Nations in China and Japan: Framed by Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal
    By Margaret Sleeboom
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  7. The Nature of the Japanese State: Rationality and Rituality
    By Brian J. McVeigh
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  8. Opposition Politics in Japan: Strategies Under a One-Party Dominant Regime
    By Stephen Johnson
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  9. Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
    By Sharon Kinsella
    To Be Published November 3rd 2013
  10. Social Inequality in Japan
    By Sawako Shirahase
    To Be Published November 24th 2013

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