As market competition replaces state regulation in many economic fields, competition policy has become an area of increasing significance. Suzuki...

Following the most significant party reform in Japanese history, this book analyses the most recent national elections of 1996 and...

Japanese Interfirm Networks analyses changes in production networks in the Japanese electronics industry....

A survey of the many changes currently in progress in Japan, including political reform, economic deregulation and liberalisation, and reforms...

Examines the domestic politics, foreign policy and international relations of climate change in China, Japan and Southeast Asia, often disproportionately...

This book is a broadly-cast study of the purposes, methods, technology and mores of warfare among the early samurai, and...

Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan presents new material on grassroots peace activism and pacifism in two major groups active in...

This volume contests the culturalist view of Japan as being in the thrall of weak legal consciousness and consumerism, which...

Jeremy Black provides fresh insights into the operations at the Eastern Front and the war against Japan and argues against...

In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the...

Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing...

This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu--the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island...

This text investigates European policies towards the 'Japanese Challenge' in cross-national and historical perspectives. It compares the policy response of...

This book provides a highly reliable guide to the industrial economy and history and will be of interest to those...

Dealing with financial and industrial reform, defence policies, the 'Asian-Values' debate, corruption and cronyism; as well as China, Japan and...

Examining the renewal of post-war contacts between Australia and Japan and the resolution of wartime issues in the 1950s this...

This groundbreaking book will have a deep impact on the ongoing international debate which surrounds this highly controversial and emotive...

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as...

This book traces the development of Japanese labour law and shows how labour law has been related to the prevailing...

The 1947 Constitution confers on Japanese citizens the 'right to life'. Williams examines the meaning of this right, discussing abortion,...

'This will be by far the best book on the place of architecture, especially monumental public architecture, in Japanese history...

As the literature of change and of the young, science fiction acts as a window to the minds of the...

Yoshiro Miwa asks whether a state can correct market failures and in particular critically analyses the performance of the Japanese...

The 1889 Meiji constitution: how it actually worked, the establishment of the Diet and the shifting roles and interests of...

This title analyses the key areas of the education reform debate, including internationalism, government control of education, increased liberalization and...

Explores the societal challenges that voluntary and non-profit organisations face in Japan and evaluates their future impact on Japanese society....

Through planning for a war against Japan the Royal Navy was able to test its readiness for a future war...

The classic account of travel by Isabella Bird in 1878 to the interior of Japan....

This book presents rare narratives written by Russians - explorers, official envoys, scholars and, later, tourists - who visited Japan...

By combining anthropological observation with historical examination of the tea ceremony, this book radically revises mainstream discourses surrounding women and...

This classic work describes shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, the supernatural beings with whom...

A comprehensive survey of the relationship between work and society in Japan explores the context for individual choices about work....

By 1944, forty Americans - missionaries, escaped POWs, and sugar growers - had been hiding from the Japanese for nearly...

At 31,000 feet above Japan, Tom Ferebee sits hunched over his bombsight. Below him lies the primary target of an...

In this book the contributors trace the origins of the post-war Japanese economic miracle and its spectacular effect on the...

This book examines employment structure, working practice and recruitment strategies in Japanese retail in the 1990s through a case-study of...

This collection of essays by noted scholars of Asian security examines the perspectives and interests of North and South Korea,...

Leading Japanese scholars present an objective study of Japanese economics since 1945, based on statistical data and analysis. It presents...

This book examines China's relationship to Japan from a number of viewpoints to reveal the history and future of this...

This detailed analysis of Japan's relations with sub-Saharan Africa over the last twenty years explores the political and economic contexts...

Explores the Japanese motivations in raising the proposal for racial equality at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Offering new insights,...

An innovative study, based on several years of living in inner city Yokohama. Stevens looks beyond stereotypes of conformity and...

This book describes the role of Japanese contract law in protecting the distributor against unilateral terminations of distribution agreements. Based...

This study examines one aspect of American women's professionalization and the implications of the cross-cultural dialogue between American woman missionaries...

This book provides a history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development...

Japan's Contested Constitution is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Japanese domestic politics and the international role of...

Offers a comparative study of representations of the Tôkaidô road, the most important route of Japan during the Edo (1600-1868)...

For the first time in one volume, the leading proponents and practitioners of action learning define their approach, and describe...

This volume records the transition from planning against any post-war resurgence of German and Japanese militarism to preparations against a...

This book is a study of labour relations in commercial and proto industrial enterprises in Tokugawa Japan....

This book explains Japan's foreign policy in terms of power, one of the most central concepts of political analysis....

Bai Gao's analysis of Japan's economic story goes beyond other analyses to demonstrate how the same economic institutions could produce...

In this pioneering study, David L. Howell looks beneath the surface structures of the Japanese state to reveal the mechanism...

Includes neighborhood tours of Chinatown, Japantown, North Beach, and Russian Hill Features day trips to Sausalito, Point Reyes, and the...

This timely publication is the first exposition of the Japanese city. It covers the form, character and organization of the...

In 1872 the fact-finding ministerial team sent by the Meiji government of Japan to assess Western technology and culture arrived...

A collection of essays on the economies and economic systems of Asia, placed in their political and...

Readable, fast-paced & fascinating account of the 1980s property boom on the Gold Coast spurred by a flood of Japanese...

War Revolution & Japan...

This brilliantly argued book taps into a great deal of news interest in North Korea at the moment in the...

The story of 16th-century Jesuits' attempts to convert in Japanese, taken principally from their leader's own magisterial writings....

Fresh evidence from newly released sources clarifies the shocking story of Japanese human experiments in Manchuria during the War, and...

Through analysis of the social environment as well as their actions, this study reveals the complexity of early 20th century...

Drawing on a wide range of Chinese historical and contemporary texts, this book addresses diverse subjects including nationalist literature; language...

The interwar years in Japan represent a neglected area of study which this book addresses from a variety of perspectives...

Offers a new interpretation of the Chinese nationalists, placing their war of resistance against Japan in the context of their...

Challenges many of the preconcieved notions on Japanese defence and security policies and the policy making process in Japan....

Britian and Japan in the Contemporary World provides up-to-date analyses of these two countries in terms of economics, politics, security...

This dissertation is the first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, focusing on the activities and roles...

Japan can be a bewildering destination, but Frommer's helps you travel like a pro, with practical tips on getting around,...

This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of...

Understanding Japanese Saving holds key lessons for Western nations undergoing similar demographic transformations as well as developing countries looking to...

This book analyzes and explains the negotiations that have taken place between China and three of its neighbours - namely...

This book shows how, during the period of the Japanese economic miracle, a distinctive female employment system was developed alongside,...

This comparative study looks at the early development of biotechnology in the US and Japan....

This book analyses Japan's international relations and participation in the multilateral forum, the G8, since its creation in 1975....

This new work analyzes the political economy of reproduction and its role in the process of Japanese modernization....

This book examines the attitudes of Japanese employees towards their work, their company and related issues at a time when...

In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes...

Nanette Gottlieb's book considers the role of language in Japanese society in relation to identity formation. It covers important questions...

Through careful analysis of literary texts and attention to writers and works long excluded from Japan's postwar literary canon, this...

The text studies how various Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses struggled with the persistent dilemma in China of how to...

"RAAF captures flying saucer on ranch in Roswell region." Ever since this provocative headline appeared on July 8, 1947, conspiracy...

Covering Russian/Soviet military psychiatry from its first practical experience during the Russo-Japanese war to its greatest test during the Great...

Focuses on traditional and religious aspects of Japanese society from an anthropological perspective, presenting new material and making cross-cultural comparisons....

Japan Internationalism and the UN provides a unique insight into Japan's foreign policy and its related domestic politics. It is...

This book explores the substantial and dynamic innovations of the wartime era, identifying this period as the most influential on...

In the face of increasingly strident demands for Japan to raise the level of their imports and, from some quarters,...

An inspiring analysis of events surrounding two women's attempted assassination of the Emperor of Japan, and the separate penalties faced...

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to government-business relations in the East Asian region, featuring a range of distinguished...

This book provides an in-depth study of the Japanese-Soviet neutrality pact, which held between 1941 and 1945 and ended with...

Provides the first quantitative and qualitative assessment of Informality in the formation of Japanese monetary policy. The author, having spent...

This book explores Japan's "scientific colonialism" through a careful study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial...

Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments...

Bringing together fifteen essays by outstanding Buddhist scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America, this book offers a distinctive portrayal...

Pearl Harbor was not an accident, a mere failure of American intelligence, or a brilliant Japanese military coup. It was...

The famous Harvard astronomer examines 19th century Japanese society. A fascinating, intimate account of Japanese family, language, religion, art...

For more than 700 years Japan was dominated by a military caste—the samurai. To the Western mind these fearsome warriors—samurai,...

This book studies specific regional issues and problems, exploring recent related political developments in Japan, and how these might impact...

Explores the problems underlying foreign policy decision-making between Japan and Russia since 1945, including the infamous 'Northern Territories dispute'....