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Japanese Governance

Beyond Japan Inc.

Edited by Jennifer Amyx, Peter Drysdale

Japan Inc was once used to describe the powerful political and economic system that delivers Japan's transformation to an industrial power. This book is about…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30469-6 (Routledge)

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The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan

By Kevin C. Murphy

American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties. Members…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29683-0 (Routledge)

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Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism

By Curtis Anderson Gayle

This book explores the historical writings of postwar Japanese Marxists - who were, and who continue to be, surprisingly numerous in the Japanese academic world.…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29739-4 (Routledge)

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Britain and Japan

Biographical Portraits, Vol. IV

Edited by Hugh Cortazzi

The continuing success of this series, highly regarded by scholars and the general reader alike, has prompted The Japan Society to commission this fourth volume,…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-1-903350-14-0 (Routledge)

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Southeast Asian Minorities in the Wartime Japanese Empire

Edited by Paul H. Kratoska

The Japanese invasion and occupation of southeast Asia provided opportunities for the peoples of the region to pursue a wide range of agendas that had…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1488-9 (Routledge)

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Modern Japan

A Social and Political History

By Elise K. Tipton

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-18538-7 (Routledge)

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Housing in Postwar Japan - A Social History

By Ann Waswo

Radical changes in the design of housing in post-war Japan had numerous effects on the Japanese people. Public policy toward housing provision and the effects…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1517-6 (Routledge)

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Japan - A State Strategy for the Twenty-First Century

By Yasuhiro Nakasone

In this important, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging study, Yasuhiro Nakasone, one of the most highly regarded former prime ministers of Japan, considers what should be Japan's…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1633-3 (Routledge)

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Japans Comfort Women

By Yuki Tanaka

Japan's Comfort Women tells the harrowing story of the "comfort women" who were forced to enter prostitution to serve the Japanese Imperial army, often living…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19401-3 (Routledge)

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Financial Globalization and the Opening of the Japanese Economy

By James P. Malcolm

This book investigates recent changes in Japan's financial system and looks at the implications for Japan's particularistic model of political economy. Drawing on the latest…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1472-8 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan
By Azembo Soeda
To be published November 21st 2008

Ideology and Christianity in Japan
By Kiri Paramore
To be published November 21st 2008

Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity
Edited by Michael Weiner
To be published November 25th 2008

Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity
Edited by Michael Weiner
To be published November 25th 2008

Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture
Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Okpyo Moon
To be published November 27th 2008

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