Japanese Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Japan and the High Treason Incident

   Edited by Masako Gavin, Ben Middleton

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   The ‘High Treason Incident’ rocked Japanese society between 1910 and 1911, when police discovered that a group of anarchists and socialists were plotting to assassinate the Emperor Meiji. Following a trial held in camera, twelve of the so-called conspirators were hanged, but while the executions...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Changing Power Relations in Northeast Asia

   Implications for Relations between Japan and South Korea

   Edited by Marie Soderberg

   Series: European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series

   This book analyses the Japanese-South Korean relationship from various angles including politics, security, economics, culture and immigration. In a sense the two countries are natural partners. Both are democratic societies, they are economically strong and are the only two Asian countries that...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Koizumi and Japanese Politics

   Reform Strategies and Leadership Style

   By Yu Uchiyama

   Series: Routledge/University of Tokyo Series

   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...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. Soft Power in Japan-China Relations

   State, sub-state and non-state relations

   By Utpal Vyas

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Soft power has tended to be overlooked in the field of international relations, often dismissed as lacking relevance or robustness as a theoretical concept. This book seeks to expand upon the idea of ‘soft power’ in international relations and to investigate how it actually functions by looking at...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. EU-Japan Relations, 1970-2012

   From Confrontation to Global Partnership

   Edited by Jörn Keck, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Franz Waldenberger

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU-Japan relations from 1970 to the present. It charts developments over the period, analyses key specific areas of importance to the relationship, and concludes by assessing how the relationship is likely to develop going forward. Throughout, the book...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
6. Japan and the G7/8

   1975-2002

   By Hugo Dobson

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Japan and Britain at War and Peace

   Edited by Hugo Dobson, Nobuko Kosuge

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   Since the events of the Second World War the relationship between Japan and Britain has undergone an extraordinary transformation, from bitter conflict to peaceful alliance. Japan and Britain at War and Peace is a multilayered examination of this bilateral relationship with an emphasis on the issue...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Regional Disorder

   The South China Sea Disputes

   By Sarah Raine, Christian Le Mière

   Series: Adelphi series

   China’s rise casts a vast and uncertain shadow over the regional balance of power in the Asia Pacific, and nowhere is this clearer than in the South China Sea. The significance of the fraught territorial disputes in this potentially resource-rich sea extends far beyond the small groupings of...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. Asia, the US and Extended Nuclear Deterrence

   Atomic Umbrellas in the Twenty-First Century

   By Andrew O'Neil

   Since the end of the Cold War, significant attention has focussed on the issue of nuclear deterrence and in particular whether formal nuclear security guarantees from nuclear weapons states to non-nuclear weapons states involving the possible use of nuclear weapons have a place in the twenty-first...

   Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
10. Japan's Changing Role in Humanitarian Crises

    By Yukiko Nishikawa

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    Extensive news coverage of humanitarian crises, especially on television, has led to a strong public awareness of the importance of humanitarian activities. This innovative book examines the evolution of Japan’s response to humanitarian crises, placing it in the context of global...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge