Books in the European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series series

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

This book examines the institutional adjustments in Southeast Asia since the economic crisis in 1997. It focuses on the determinants of the adjustments, implementation of the changes and the various differences between countries in the region.

Bringing together issues that are highly relevant to contemporary Japanese foreign policy, this comprehensive text analyzes the formation of the North Korea policy in the context of great power relations in East Asia. Policy-oriented and based on empirical analysis, it is of interest to both policy makers and scholars of Asian foreign policy.

This volume outlines the history of competition law reform in Britain and Japan throughout the post-war period and also contains case studies of the most remarkable reforms in the 1970s and the 1990s.

Analyzing recent changes in important Japanese institutions, this book goes against the conventional wisdom that Japanese institutions have remained relatively rigid since the collapse of the 1980s bubble, to argue that there has in fact been significant institutional change over the last decade.

Focuses on the processes of change taking place in Japan's politics and economy. This book looks at many different areas including political leadership, the defence industry, security and diplomatic policy, peace building, official development assistance, the economic and business areas and education policy.

Analyses the Japan-South Korean relationship from various angles such as politics, security, economics, culture and immigration issues and how the relationship is affected by the changing power relations in Northeast Asia. This book is of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics.

This work focuses on the procedures, methodologies and business mechanisms of foreign aid that influence the process of policy-making in Tokyo.

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

Financial Liberalization and the Economic Crisis in Asia analyses how financial liberalization was undertaken in eight Asian countries and how it might be linked to the subsequent crises.

Explains Japan's foreign policy in terms of power, one of the most central concepts of political analysis. Given that Japan's foreign policy is often portrayed rather enigmatically in terms of power, this work demonstrates how to analyze power aspects of Japan's foreign policy in a more coherent fashion.

Analyzing recent changes in important Japanese institutions, this book goes against the conventional wisdom that Japanese institutions have remained relatively rigid since the collapse of the 1980s bubble, to argue that there has in fact been significant institutional change over the last decade.

This book examines Japan's development assistance as it transitions away from "Official Development Assistance" and towards "Development Cooperation." In this transition, the strong relationships between Japanese development policy and comprehensive security, diplomacy, foreign, domestic and economic policies are likely to become even more integrated. Written by a multidisciplinary team of contributors from the fields of poltical science, international relations, development, economics, public opinion and Japan studies, this book sets out to be innovative in capturing the essence of the changing patterns of development cooperation, and more importantly, Japan's role in within it, in an era of great change.

This book focuses on the processes of change taking place in Japan's politics and economy. The contributors look at a number of different areas including political leadership, the defence industry, security and diplomatic policy, peace building, official development assistance, the economic and business areas and education policy.