Books in the Routledge Library of Modern Japan series

This set collects together the major English- language contributions to theories of the structure and performance of the Japanese economy in the twentieth century.

Brings together new-wave essays written from the 1990s onwards, together with the several articles written in earlier decades in order to build up a nuanced portrait of modern Japanese culture and society. This work looks at the macro level of politics and the economy. It also addresses religion and the diversity of contemporary Japanese society.

This unique collection details Japan's relations with South East Asia from the Meiji era to the present day, providing an indispensible resource for students and scholars of the politics and history of Japan and South East Asia.

This set explores many of Japan's factor markets, as well as the public policies that have affected their operation. The essays collected here examine the role of capital and labour markets in determining the trajectory of economic growth.

This set provides a comprehensive introduction and contains the most important critical literature on the history and historiography of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Japan.

This is a comprehensive guide for students and scholars of the period of the reign of Emperor Hirohito (1926-1989), encompassing a world war and the most accelerated economic upheaval and development of any country in the world.

In the ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY OF MODERN JAPAN series which contain historial studies, interdisciplinary perspectives and recent thinking on the Japanese education and industrial training systems upon which Japan's economic success relies.