Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kingston, Jeff

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary textbook written by leading specialists on contemporary Japan. Students will gain the analytical insights and information necessary to assess the challenges that confront the Japanese people, policymakers and private and public-sector institutions in Japan today.

Featuring a comprehensive analysis of key debates and issues confronting Japan, issues covered include:

• A rapidly aging society and changing employment system
• Nuclear and renewable energy policy
• Gender discrimination
• Immigration and ethnic minorities
• Post-3/11 tsunami, earthquake and nuclear meltdown developments
• Sino-Japanese relations

An essential reference work for students of contemporary Japan, it is also an invaluable source for a variety of courses, including comparative politics, anthropology, public policy and international relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351139632
• Artikelnr.: 56843371

Autorenporträt

Jeff Kingston is Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan. His recent publications include Japan's Foreign Relations in Asia (2017) and Nationalism in Asia: A History Since 1945 (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Jeff Kingston PART I: Political environment 1. Japanese politics: mainstream or exotic?
Arthur Stockwin 2. The politics of trade policy
Aurelia George Mulgan 3. Limiting fundamental rights protection in Japan: the role of the Supreme Court
Lawrence Repeta 4. Civil society: past
present
and future
Akihiro Ogawa 5. Japan's contemporary media
David McNeill PART II: Nuclear and renewable Energy 6. Revisiting the limits of flexible and adaptive institutions: the Japanese government's role in nuclear power plant siting over the post-war period
Daniel P. Aldrich 7. Who controls whom? Constraints
challenges and rival policy images in Japan's post-war energy restructuring
Paul Scalise 8. Japan's nuclear village: Power and resilience
Jeff Kingston 9. Japan's renewable energy prospects
Andrew DeWit PART III: International dynamics 10. Bad war or good war? History and politics in post-war Japan
Sven Saaler 11. Territorial disputes with Korea and China: Small islets
enduring Conflicts
Mark Selden 12. An inconvenient truce: domestic politics and the Russo-Japanese Northern Territories dispute
Tina Burrett 13. Okinawa today: spotlight on Henoko
Alexis Dudden PART IV: Social dilemmas 14. Demographic dilemmas
women and immigration
Jeff Kingston 15. Reproductive rights in Japan: where do women stand? Tin Tin Htun 16. Hiding in plain sight: minority issues in Japan
Kyle Cleveland 17. Mental health and therapy in Japan: conceptions
practices
and challenges
Sachiko Horiguchi 18. Violence in schools: tensions between 'the individual' and 'the group' in the Japanese education system
Robert Aspinall 19. Hidden behind Tokyo: observations on the rest of Japan
John Mock PART V: Reforming Japan? 20. Seeking to change Japanese society through legal reform
Matthew J. Wilson 21. Parochialism: Japan's failure to internationalize
Robert Dujarric and Ayumi Takenaka 22. What's behind what ails Japan
David Leheny 23. Whither Abe's Japan
Jeff Kingston