Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
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Japan's Emerging Youth Policy
Getting Young Adults Back to Work
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
From the 1960s onwards, Japan’s rapid economic growth coincided with remarkably smooth transitions from school to work and with internationally low levels of youth unemployment. However, this changed dramatically in the 1990s, and by the 2000s, youth employment came to be recognized as a serious...
Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Japanese Social Welfare
The Development of Diversity
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
This book presents a new dimension of the lives of the zainichi Koreans in Japan and the development of social policy for an ageing society. Using Aera, (a non-profit North Korean welfare organisation in Japan) as the case study, Lee investigates how this group utilises and mobilises Japanese state...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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The Organisational Dynamics of University Reform in Japan
International Inside Out
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
For several decades internationalisation has been a cornerstone of both Japanese government higher education policy and approaches to reform at an institutional level, but Japan has still not managed to lose its reputation as a somewhat reclusive member of the global academic community. Consensus...
Published September 7th 2012 by Routledge
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Urban Spaces in Japan
Cultural and Social Perspectives
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary...
Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
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Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan
Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced...
Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
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A Sociology of Japanese Youth
From Returnees to NEETs
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical...
Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
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Japan's Postwar
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting "postwar" to be the years directly proceeding World War II. However, the contributors to this book take a unique approach to the concept of the postwar epoch and treat it as a...
Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
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An Emerging Non-Regular Labour Force in Japan
The Dignity of Dispatched Workers
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Like many industrialised nations, the current employment trend in Japan centres on diversification of the labour market with an increased use of temporary labour. Among a wide range of non-regular labour arrangements, haken are a newly legalised category of non-regular workers who are typically...
Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
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Labour Migration from China to Japan
International Students, Transnational Migrants
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Chinese students are the largest international student population in the world, and Japan attracts more of them than any other country. Since the mid-1980s when China opened the door to let private citizens out and Japan began to let more foreigners in, over 300 thousand Chinese have arrived in...
Published May 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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Policy Entrepreneurship and Elections in Japan
A Political Biogaphy of Ozawa Ichiro
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Ozawa Ichiro 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...
Published April 20th 2011 by Routledge
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The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan
The Career of Matsumoto Jiichiro
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Written by an internationally recognized specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation. Ian Neary focuses on the Burakumin activist, left-wing politician, family company manager and arguably the most important Buraku...
Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
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The US-Japan Alliance
Balancing Soft and Hard Power in East Asia
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Japan's use of Soft power in its international politics is as yet understudied. Soft power presents as many challenges as promises. This book explores the way Japan uses soft power in its relationship with the US, its Asian neighbours and Europe and aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of...
Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
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Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France
When the Opposition Governs
Series: 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...
Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge
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Social Class in Contemporary Japan
Structures, Sorting and Strategies
Series: 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...
Published October 15th 2009 by Routledge
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The Transformation of the Japanese Left
From Old Socialists to New Democrats
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
This book examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of ‘the old socialists’, the Japan Socialist Party, and in its place, the emergence of the Democratic Party of Japan as the leading opposition party. Sarah Hyde has produced an original book which looks...
Published September 20th 2009 by Routledge
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Modern Japan
A Social and Political History, 2nd Edition
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
This thoroughly updated second edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, the book charts the country's evolution into a modernized, economic and...
Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge
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Living Cities in Japan
Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important...
Published July 2nd 2007 by Routledge
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Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute
Hokkaido-Sakhalin Relations
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
The unresolved territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the South Kuril Islands/Northern Territories remains the largest obstacle to concluding a peace treaty and fully normalising bilateral relations between the two nations. This book traces the evolution of transnational relations...
Published June 4th 2007 by Routledge
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Cold War Frontiers in the Asia-Pacific
Divided Territories in the San Francisco System
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
After World War II, many regional conflicts emerged in the Asia-Pacific, such as the divided Korean peninsula, the Cross-Taiwan Strait, the ‘Northern Territories’, (Southern Kuriles) Takeshima (Dokdo), Senkaku (Diaoyu) and the Spratly (Nansha) islands problems. These and other disputes, such as the...
Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge