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New Perspectives On Peacetime Anglo-Japanese Military Relations - Old Friends, New Partners

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 This book examines the peacetime military relationship between the UK and Japan, spanning partnerships and interactions from the 1860s to the present day.
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Japan'S Response To History Problems - National Interests, Ideologies, And Decision-Making Processes

by Karol Zakowski

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 This book examines the decision-making processes behind the formulation and evolution of the Japanese governmentâ€™s official stance regarding diplomatic problems connected with the history of Japanâ€™s territorial expansionism in East Asia.
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Expatriates In Japanese Firms - Experiences And Expectations Of Workers From China And Vietnam

by Chie Yorozu

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Focusing on the experiences of foreign employees working in Japanese firms, this book identifies the trends and realities facing both expatriates and firms in the current landscape of the Japanese labour market.
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Eu-Japan Relations And The Crisis Of Multilateralism

by Julie Gilson

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 Presenting the history of relations between the European Community/Union and Japan, this book explains the origins and significance of the momentous 2018 Economic Partnership Agreement and its parallel Strategic Partnership Agreement.
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Hegemony And The Us-Japan Alliance

by Misato Matsuoka

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 A pioneering study conducted through the lens of neo-Gramscianism, this book unravels the intricate political dynamism involved in the US-Japan alliance. It provides an innovative attempt to link the concept of alliances to hegemony and thus examines Japanâ€™s relationship to US dominance in the region.
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Japan'S Contested Constitution - Documents And Analysis

by Gavan Mccormack e Glenn D. Hook

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 Japan's Contested Constitution is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Japanese domestic politics and the international role of Japan.
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Narrative Management In Corporate Japan - Investor Relations As Pseudo-Reform

by Chie Yorozu

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 Scandals and failures in some of the best known international Japanese-owned companies have shown that there is sometimes a considerable difference between the public and internal narratives of Japanese firms. This book explores the extent to which Japanese firms’ public claims reflect wider reality.Exploring how and why corporate narrative-management is ‘accepted’ or ‘rejected’ by external and internal audiences in Japan, the book clarifies what narrative-management means for Japanese organizations. It argues that the role of narrative-management has become much more prevalent in Japan in recent years, but that it does not serve quite the same role as it does in the Western environments where the theory and practice first emerged. The author presents interview-based case studies within four very different large Japanese organisations, all of which have deployed and loudly announced new restructuring plans based largely on Western models of corporate ‘best practice’. The book aims to describe and account for these Japanese corporate narratives, and asks what they are, why they are deployed and who believes in them.As the first narrative-related work in the Japanese context, this volume provides an insight into the development of Japanese narrative-management. It will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese Business, International Business and Organizational Studies.
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Japanese Business Management - Restructuring For Low Growth And Globalisation

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 Japanese Business Management demonstrates how management is moving towards a hybrid type in overseas operations and towards a western-style in Japan, where contractual principles are now beginning to be given greater weight.
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Japanese Capitalism And Modernity In A Global Era - Refabricating Lifetime Employment Relations

by Peter Matanle

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 First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Japan And The G7/8 - 1975-2002

by Hugo Dobson

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 Analysing Japan's international relations and participation in the multilateral forum - the G8 - since its creation in 1975, this text explores the motivation of the Japanese government and non-governmental actors' aims and objectives, and examines how and to what extent they have been achieved.
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Political Economy Of Reproduction In Japan

by Takeda Hiroko

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 This new work analyzes the political economy of reproduction and its role in the process of Japanese modernization.
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Grassroots Pacifism In Post-War Japan - The Rebirth Of A Nation

by Mari Yamamoto

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 Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan presents new material on grassroots peace activism and pacifism in two major groups active in the post-World War II peace movement - workers and housewives.
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Globalisation And Women In The Japanese Workforce

by Beverley Bishop

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 This book contributes to the debate about the impact of globalisation upon women and examines the impact of restructuring upon women's employment in Japan.
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Decoding Boundaries In Contemporary Japan - The Koizumi Administration And Beyond

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 This book sheds light on the changing nature of contemporary Japan by decoding a range of political, economic and social boundaries. With a focus on the period following the inauguration of Prime Minister Koizumi Junichir, the book grows out of a recognition that, with the Koizumi administration playing a more proactive role internationally and moving ahead with deregulation and the ‘structural reform’ of the economy domestically, a range of boundaries have been challenged and reinscribed. Here ‘boundaries’ refers to the ways in which contemporary Japan is shaped as a separate entity by the inscription and reinscription of political, economic and social space creating insiders and outsiders, both internationally and domestically. The central argument of the book is that, in order to achieve the twin goals of greater international proactivity and domestic reform, the government and other actors supporting Koizumi’s new direction for Japan needed to take action in order to destabilize and reformulate a range of extant boundaries. While boundaries often remain invisible, the aim of this book is to promote an understanding of their significance by uncovering their pivotal role. Decoding Boundaries in Contemporary Japan brings together contributions from leading and emerging scholars from the UK, Japan and the United States. It will appeal to scholars and students of Japan as well as social scientists with an interest in borders and boundaries, political scientists interested in Asia.
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Asian Regionalism And Japan - The Politics Of Membership In Regional Diplomatic, Financial And Trade Groups

by Shintaro Hamanaka

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 Explores the nature of regionalism by conducting a comprehensive analysis of over 30 regionalist proposals made by Japan and other Asian countries throughout the post-war period. The case studies go beyond an understanding of each regionalist project, providing a deeper understanding of the behavior patterns of Japan and other countries.
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Regional Risk And Security In Japan - Whither The Everyday

by Glenn D. Hook, Paul O'Shea e Ra Mason

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 Japan’s unusual position in the realm of international politics encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia, both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst international relations theory offers a number of ways to analyse these relations, this book instead utilizes the concept of risk to provide an innovative perspective on Japan’s relations with China, North Korea and the US.The book elucidates how risk, potential harm and harm are faced disproportionately by certain groups in society. This is demonstrated by providing an empirically rich analysis of the domestic implications of security relations with China, North Korea and the United States through the presence of US troops in Okinawa. Beginning with a theoretical discussion of risk, it goes on to demonstrate how the concept of risk adds value to the study of international relations in three senses. First, the concept helps to break down the boundaries between the international and domestic. Second, the focus on risk and the everyday directs us to ask basic questions about the costs and benefits of a security policy meant to secure the national population. Third, what implications do these two points have for governance? The question is one of governance as Japan’s externally oriented security policy produces domestic insecurity shared disproportionately, not equally, as this volume makes clear. Developing the theory of risk as a tool for understanding international relations, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, Japanese politics, international relations and security studies, as well as to policy makers and practitioners working in the field.
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Representing The Other In Modern Japanese Literature - A Critical Approach

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 Using a cross-section of authors and texts as case studies, this edited book looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between Self and Other in their work.
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Myth, Protest And Struggle In Okinawa

by Miyume Tanji

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 The author provides an analysis of the various ways and reasons people in Okinawa have engaged in protest against the US military since the Second World War and the link between these events and the cultural tradition of protest in this community.
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Japan'S Relations With China - Facing A Rising Power

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 The essays in this collection examine Sino-Japanese political relations given the phenomenon of â€˜a rising China and a stagnating Japanâ€™, questioning whether their relationship is one of cooperation or conflict.
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Japan'S National Identity And Foreign Policy - Russia As Japan''S ''Other''

by Alexander Bukh

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 In Japan's National Identity and Foreign Policy, Alexander Bukh focuses on the construction of the Japanese self using Russia as the other, examining the history of bilateral relations and comparisons between the Russian and Japanese national character.
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Japan And Okinawa - Structure And Subjectivity

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 Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okinawa from the perspective of political economy and society.
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Governing Insecurity In Japan - The Domestic Discourse And Policy Response

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 Since the end of the Cold War, Japan''s security environment has changed significantly. While, on the global level, the United States is still Japan''s most important security partner, the nature of the partnership has changed as a result of shifting demands from the United States, new international challenges such as the North Korean nuclear programme and the rapid rise of China. At the same time, Japan has been confronted with new, ‘non-traditional’ security threats such as international terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases, and global environmental problems. On the domestic level, demographic change, labour migration, economic decline, workplace insecurity, and a weakening impact of policy initiatives challenge the sustainability of the lifestyle of many Japanese and have led to a heightened sense of insecurity among the Japanese public. This book focuses on the domestic discourse on insecurity in Japan and goes beyond military security. The chapters cover issues such as Japan’s growing perception of regional and global insecurity; the changing role of military forces; the perceived risk of Chinese foreign investment; societal, cultural and labour insecurity and how it is affected by demographic changes and migration; as well as food insecurity and its challenges to health and public policy. Each chapter asks how the Japanese public perceives these insecurities; how these perceptions influence the public discourse, the main stakeholders of this discourse, and how this affects state-society relations and government policies. Governing Insecurity in Japan provides new insights into Japanese and international discourses on security and insecurity, and the ways in which security is conceptualized in Japan. As such, it will be of interest to students and scholars working on Japanese politics, security studies and international relations.
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Politics Of War Memory In Japan - Progressive Civil Society Groups And Contestation Of Memory Of The Asia-Pacific War

by Kamila Szczepanska

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 Since the 1990s, questions of Japanese wartime conduct, apologies for aggression, and compensation to former victims of the country’s imperial policies, have been brought to the fore of national and regional politics. The state is undoubtedly the most important actor in the process of memory production and along with conservative legislators and the grass-root revisionist movement there has been a consistent trend towards denying or undermining the existing acknowledgments of responsibility for Japan’s wartime past. However, to fully comprehend war memory in Japan, due attention must be paid to competing discourses that demand an alternative view, and only then can the complexity of Japanese war memory and attitudes towards the legacies of the Asia-Pacific war be understood. The Politics of War Memory in Japan examines the involvement of five civil society actors in the struggle over remembering and addressing the wartime past in Japan today. In studying progressive war memory activists, it quickly becomes clear that the apologia by conservative politicians cannot be treated as representative of the opinion of the majority of the Japanese public. Indeed, this book seeks to remedy the disparity between studies devoted to the official level of addressing the ‘history issue’ and the grass-root historical revisionist movement on the one side, and progressive activism on the other. Furthermore, it contributes to scholarly debates on the state of civil society in Japan, challenging the characterisation of Japanese civil society as a depoliticised space by demonstrating a more contentious side of civil society activism. Drawing important new empirical research, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese civil society, Japanese politics, Japanese history and memory in Japan.
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Japan'S Relations With North Korea And The Recalibration Of Risk

by Ra Mason

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 North Korea’s contemporary relations with Japan have been fraught with tension. Tactics employed by Pyongyang have included abductions of Japanese citizens, missile launches over Japanese territory, intrusions into Japanese sovereign waters, and nuclear tests in defiance of Japanese and international condemnation. In light of the security risk the DPRK poses, this book examines how the state, market, and society in Japan have framed North Korea as a salient evil, and have in turn constructed and manipulated the risks posed by their neighbour. Using the example of Japan’s post-Cold War responses to North Korea, this book studies the concept of risk in international relations, and its interactive relationship with domestic civil society. It focuses on how security risks are identified and re-evaluated by policy makers, mass media, and civil society stakeholders, and in doing so disentangles the complex processes by which Japan has framed and recalibrated risks in response to the DPRK. By exploring how risks identified with Pyongyang’s behaviour towards Japan have been mediated between the state, market, and society via mainstream discourse in Japan, Ra Mason highlights the way in which these processes are causally linked to key actors’ conceptions of risk. Indeed, this book provides an original theoretical framework - distinguishing between risk and traditional threat perceptions - through which to address issues of national security and identity, as well as the norms which inform them. Japan’s Relations with North Korea and the Recalibration of Risk will be welcomed by students and scholars across a wide range of fields including Japanese politics, Asia-Pacific studies, international relations, and security studies.
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