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. Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia

   Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations

   Edited by Adam Clulow

   Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan across the long sweep of the early modern and modern periods. Drawing on new research by scholars from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, it moves...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. Civilization and Empire

   China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society

   By Shogo Suzuki

   Series: New International Relations

   This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi

   Social, Political and Environmental Issues

   Edited by Richard Hindmarsh

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan’s northeast coastline on March 11, 2011. It provides riveting insights into the social and...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan

   By Denis Gainty

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai’s efforts to define and popularise...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
10. Northern Territories, Asia-Pacific Regional Conflicts and the Aland Experience

    Untying the Kurillian Knot

    Edited by Kimie Hara, Geoffrey Jukes

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

    This volume is the fruit of an international collaborative study, which considers the Åland islands settlement in northern Europe as a resolution model for the major Asia-Pacific regional conflicts that derived from the post-World War II disposition of Japan, with particular focus on the...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge