The United States and Japan in a Changing World
Author: Henry Kissinger
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 12
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U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
Author: Steven Kent Vogel
Publisher: Brookings Inst Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780815706304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reviews the past fifty years of the U.S.-Japan relationship and speculates about how it will evolve in the years to come.
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
Author: Steven Vogel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004-05-13
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0815798342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeptember 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally transformed its position on the world stage. It established itself in the vanguard of the burgeoning cold war bulwark against the Soviet Union and its communist satellites, and wed itself to the United States through economic, political, and security ties that persist today. The half century since the establishment of the San Francisco system has seen highs and lows in the relations between the two countries, continuing even into the current war on terrorism. This new book evaluates the changing relationship between the two great powers, providing in-depth analysis on a variety of topics. It scrutinizes the historical context, providing the reader with predictive tools for understanding events as they unfold. Instead of looking at the U.S.-Japan relationship one issue at a time, this book examines specific trends and then analyzes how these trends affect the relationship as a whole. This innovative approach allows the reader to view several perspectives simultaneously, and it compels the contributors to assemble clear causal arguments that detail what each factor can and cannot explain. The result is a cogent and convincing appraisal of the status and future of U.S.-Japan relations after fifty years of peaceful coexistence.
The Pacific Century
Author: Frank Gibney
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 632
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Religion in Japanese Culture
Author: Noriyoshi Tamaru
Publisher: Kodansha
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion in Japanese Culture is a response to the relentless change of the last twenty-five years. Retaining but revising the earlier volume's comprehensive survey of Japan's major religions, this book also presents six new essays exploring religion and the state, religion and education, urbanization and depopulation, the rebirth of religion, internalization, and religious organizations and Japanese law. In addition, a new appendix presents an analysis of Qum Shinrikyo's 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system.
Japan Transformed
Author: Frances Rosenbluth
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-04-12
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1400835097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains a formidable economy and its political system is healthier than at any time in its history. Japan Transformed explores the historical, political, and economic forces that led to the country's recent evolution, and looks at the consequences for Japan's citizens and global neighbors. The book examines Japanese history, illustrating the country's multiple transformations over the centuries, and then focuses on the critical and inexorable advance of economic globalization. It describes how global economic integration and urbanization destabilized Japan's postwar policy coalition, undercut the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's ability to buy votes, and paved the way for new electoral rules that emphasized competing visions of the public good. In contrast to the previous system that pitted candidates from the same party against each other, the new rules tether policymaking to the vast swath of voters in the middle of the political spectrum. Regardless of ruling party, Japan's politics, economics, and foreign policy are on a neoliberal path. Japan Transformed combines broad context and comparative analysis to provide an accurate understanding of Japan's past, present, and future.
Japan in the American Century
Author: Kenneth B. Pyle
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0674989082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo nation was more deeply affected by America’s rise to world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt’s uncompromising policy of unconditional surrender led to the catastrophic finale of the Asia-Pacific War and the most intrusive international reconstruction of another nation in modern history. Japan in the American Century examines how Japan, with its deeply conservative heritage, responded to the imposition of a new liberal order. The price Japan paid to end the occupation was a cold war alliance with the United States that ensured America’s dominance in the region. Still traumatized by its wartime experience, Japan developed a grand strategy of dependence on U.S. security guarantees so that the nation could concentrate on economic growth. Yet from the start, despite American expectations, Japan reworked the American reforms to fit its own circumstances and cultural preferences, fashioning distinctively Japanese variations on capitalism, democracy, and social institutions. Today, with the postwar world order in retreat, Japan is undergoing a sea change in its foreign policy, returning to an activist, independent role in global politics not seen since 1945. Distilling a lifetime of work on Japan and the United States, Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of the two nations’ relationship at a time when the character of that alliance is changing. Japan has begun to pull free from the constraints established after World War II, with repercussions for its relations with the United States and its role in Asian geopolitics.
Japan and the World Since 1868
Author: Michael A. Barnhart
Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780340528587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of Japan's foreign relations since 1868. Far from being a monolithic state, Japan, in this study, emerges as one deeply divided in its image and hopes for itself and its place in the world, divisions that have persisted from the Meiji Restoration
Japan's Politics and Economy
Author: Marie Söderberg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-12-16
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1135181241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor some time Japan has been under fire for adjusting too slowly to new realities. While this criticism may be valid on some levels, Japan has been transforming in tandem with both regional and global forces. However, these changes have been largely overshadowed by the immense changes in Asia; including the rise of China, the 1997 Southeast Asian financial crisis and North Korea's development of nuclear weapons. Has Japan, the world's second largest economy, only been muddling through? In this volume the contributors show that although the challenges faced are great, Japan is changing in areas ranging from political leadership, education policy, official development assistance, peace building and security, to defence production, business associations and innovation policy. The book analyses processes of change, focusing on the dynamics of change - rather than structural change or institutional change per se - from four levels: the individual, domestic, regional and global. Forces from outside Japan, such as a changing world order and changes in power relationships in Asia, have driven change along with pressures emerging within Japan, such as the increasing power of public opinion and competitiveness within markets. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Japanese and Asian Studies, Politics, International Relations, Globalization, Business and Economics.
Is Japan Really Changing Its Ways?
Author: Lonny E. Carlile
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the politics behind the Japanese regulatory reforms, the nature of the reforms, and their effect on both the domestic economy and Japan's international trade.
