Books by Jeff Kingston

Japan in the Heisei Era (1989-2019) provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the evolving contexts of Japan throughout the Heisei era and how longstanding verities and values are being called into question.

This comprehensive book provides a comparative analysis of religious nationalism in globalized Asia. Exploring the nexus of religion, identity, and nationalism, Kingston assesses similarities and differences across the region. He focuses on how religious sentiments influence how people express nationalism, often with extreme and tragic results.

The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's Lost Decade' to describe how the growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the country was subsequently crippled by enormous and ongoing political, economic and social problems. This book argues that the Japan that emerges from these manifold problems may, in fact, be stronger than before.