Asian History

Provides a detailed assessment of Japan's foreign policy since 1945, including policy options and choices that Japan faces in the twenty-first century. Using information based on interviews with policymakers in Japan, this text provides an insight into Japan's foreign policy options and analyzes the..

By bringing together case studies of eight critical issue areas, this text looks at Japan's responses to globalization and move toward "permeable insulation". Topics covered include past practices and changes in policy, and Japan's compliance with and resistance to global trade rules...

By bringing together case studies of eight critical issue areas, this text looks at Japan's responses to globalization and move toward "permeable insulation". Topics covered include past practices and changes in policy, and Japan's compliance with and resistance to global trade rules...

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 ba..

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 period and treat it as a netwo..

An international team of ten specialists in Japanese and American foreign relations address the crucial question: what role should Japan play in international affairs? They try to find a satisfactory answer to a concern which was first raised in the mid-19th century...

Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into Japan's contemporary civilisation. This volume (the first of two) covers up to the late 18th century...

Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into Japan's contemporary civilization. This volume (the second of two) covers from the late 18th century up to 1995...

Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into Japan's contemporary civilization. This volume (the second of two) covers from the late 18th century up to 1995...

A fresh and stimulating study of a traditional art which continues to exert influence on cultural practices inside and outside Japan...

A fresh and stimulating study of a traditional art which continues to exert influence on cultural practices inside and outside Japan...

An analysis of the deterioration of Soviet-Japanese relations in the 1970s and 1980s. It examines basic factors shaping the relationship between the two countries, and their conflicting views of the conflict, security, military force and territorial rights, as well as key events of the period...