Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

Japanese Economic Development

Theory and practice, 3rd Edition

By Penny Francks

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

This fully revised and updated third edition of Japanese Economic Development looks at Japan's economic history from the nineteenth century through to World War II, recasting analysis of Japan’s economic past in the light fresh theoretical perspectives in the study of economic history and...

Published May 19th 2015 by Routledge

Urban Spaces in Japan

Cultural and Social Perspectives

Edited by Christoph Brumann, Evelyn Schulz

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary...

Published March 4th 2015 by Routledge

The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan

The Career of Matsumoto Jiichiro

By Ian Neary

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

Written by an internationally recognized specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation. Ian Neary focuses on the Burakumin activist, left-wing politician, family company manager and arguably the most important Buraku...

Published March 4th 2015 by Routledge

An Emerging Non-Regular Labour Force in Japan

The Dignity of Dispatched Workers

By Huiyan Fu

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

Like many industrialised nations, the current employment trend in Japan centres on diversification of the labour market with an increased use of temporary labour. Among a wide range of non-regular labour arrangements, haken are a newly legalised category of non-regular workers who are typically...

Published March 4th 2015 by Routledge

Academic Nations in China and Japan

Framed by Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal

By Margaret Sleeboom

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

The descriptions Chinese and Japanese people attribute to themselves and to each other differ vastly and stand in stark contrast to Western perceptions that usually identify a 'similar disposition' between the two nations. Academic Nationals in China and Japan explores human categories, how...

Published December 23rd 2014 by Routledge

Labour Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy

Worker Protection under Neoliberal Globalisation

By Hiroaki Richard Watanabe

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

Japan and Italy encountered severe economic problems in the early 1990s, and the governments had to deal with those issues effectively under the increasing neoliberal pressures of globalisation. In this context, labour market deregulation was considered an effective tool to cope with those economic...

Published November 19th 2014 by Routledge

Ozawa Ichiro and Japanese Politics

Old Versus New

By Aurelia George Mulgan

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

Ozawa Ichiro was the axis on which Japanese politics turned for more than two decades. He helped to reshape the electoral system, political funding rules, the evolution of the party system, the nature of executive government, the roles and powers of bureaucrats, and the conduct of parliamentary and...

Published October 16th 2014 by Routledge

Japan's Interventionist State

The Role of the MAFF

By Aurelia George-Mulgan

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

Japan's Interventionist State gives a detailed examination of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and its role in promoting, protecting and preserving the regime of agricultural support and protection. This account is integral to the author's extended and multidimensional...

Published September 12th 2014 by Routledge

Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan

Edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales, Romit Dasgupta

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship, which, in the context of significant socio-economic and demographic shifts since the 1990s, have become increasingly visible in public...

Published August 26th 2014 by Routledge

Japan's International Fisheries Policy

Law, Diplomacy and Politics Governing Resource Security

By Roger D. Smith

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

Few nations rely upon the ocean as much as Japan for livelihood, culture and transport. The seas have long played a vital role for the Japanese, helping to support the economic and social life of a nation that possesses few resources and little arable land, and sustain a population that has nearly...

Published August 21st 2014 by Routledge