Japan's Options for the 1980s
Japan's Options for the 1980s

Author: Radha Sinha

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-18

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1136912932

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Japan’s economic success since the 1950s created a range of serious domestic and international problems which threaten the stability of the country. Within Japan at the start of the 1980s there was a strong mood on the right for remilitarization to give the nation the super-power status her economic performance justified. Outside Japan, there was increasing pressure from the West to make her conform to Western strategic interests. Against the background of these crucial issues the book analyzes the economic, political and military options open to Japan. Focussing on the interconnecting themes of foreign harassment and domestic economic disorder, the author points out many areas of similarity between Japan of the 1930s and Japan of the 1980s.

Consuming Japan
Consuming Japan

Author: Andrew C. McKevitt

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-08-31

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1469634481

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This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post–World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan's globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the "yellow peril," and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world? From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.

Routledge Library Editions: Japan's International Relations
Routledge Library Editions: Japan's International Relations

Author: Various Authors

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 876

ISBN-13: 1351372556

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This set brings together a collection of key works about the International Relations of Japan. Written by a range of international experts, the titles cover the essential aspects of Japan’s postwar relationship to the outside world: its changing notion of its role in the international community, and its relations with China and the US.

Japan and the Asian Pacific Region
Japan and the Asian Pacific Region

Author: Masahide Shibusawa

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-21

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1351377744

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This book, first published in 1984, examines the spectacular economic growth of the Asia Pacific region in the 1970s and 1980s. How did a group of non-Western nations, in an area plagued by war, achieve such success, so quickly? Japan was the driving force in the region, and a dominant influence on the world economy, but had no clearly defined role in the politics of the region or the world. This book considers Japan’s position, the problems it faced and how it perceived and responded to events in the region. It provides clues to understanding the basic pattern of Japan’s relations, its evolving role in the region and the world, and how this role might develop in the future.

Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan
Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan

Author: Martin Collick

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1988-05-17

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1349102970

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Over the past thirty years Japan has shown that it is a highly dynamic society, and its economic policy-making has often astonished the world. Japanese politics, however, though sometimes showing dynamism, are very stable and frequently strangely immobilist. In this book, six specialists on Japanese politics seek to find out why.

Cross-Cultural Influences between Japanese and American Pop Cultures
Cross-Cultural Influences between Japanese and American Pop Cultures

Author: Kendra N. Sheehan

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-05-26

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1527512827

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This collection features examinations of popular culture, including manga, music, film, cosplay, and literature, among other topics. Using interdisciplinary sources and analyses, this collection adds to the global discussion and relevancy of Japanese popular culture. This collection serves to highlight the work of multidisciplinary scholars who offer fresh perspectives of ongoing cross-cultural and cyclical influences that are commonly found between the US and Japan. Notably, this collection considers the relationships that have influenced Japanese popular culture, and how this has, in turn, influenced the Western world.

Japan Re-Armed
Japan Re-Armed

Author: Malcolm McIntosh

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1780935145

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At the end of the Pacific War in 1945, Japan laid down her arms and submitted to US technological superiority. The situation today is radically different, with Japan leading in many areas of advanced technology - with armed forces and weaponry the match of many NATO countries. Malcolm McIntosh analyses Japan's role in the Pacific, her relations with other Superpowers, as well as the trade and investment for which Japan is now famed and feared. First published in 1986, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Japan at the Summit
Japan at the Summit

Author: Shiro Saito

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-21

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1351372572

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This book, first published in 1990 and written from a Japanese perspective, examines the gradual transformation of Japan's traditional role in world politics since the Second World War. With Japan's postwar economic success came calls from many quarters for it to match its economic involvement with an equal commitment to international political relations. The book discusses in detail the realization by Japan's leadership that international cooperation must take place on many diverse levels, and focuses on Japan's involvement in Western affairs during the 1980s, through participation in the seven-power economic and political summits and dialogue at the meetings of ASEAN.

Defense Planning for the 1980's & the Changing International Environment
Defense Planning for the 1980's & the Changing International Environment

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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Partial Contents: Strategic Materials-More Vulnerable Bottlenecks Ahead; U.S. National Security and the Impact of Multinational Corporations; The Future of Energy--Another look; Currency Values and Economic Resources Allocations as Instruments of Foreign Policy; Military Force and Nonmilitary Threats; 'New' Forms of Violence in the International Milieu; Effects of the Middle East War and the Energy Crisis on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance; and Japan's Foreign Policy Options in the Coming Decades.

U.S./Japan Foreign Trade
U.S./Japan Foreign Trade

Author: Rita E. Neri

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-21

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1351377469

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This bibliography, first published in 1988, consists of annotated entries of monographs and journal articles published in English that discuss socio-economic aspects of Japanese society as well as the general and economic dynamics of United States-Japan trade relations. Emphasis is on the Japanese perspective.