Books in the The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series series

Examines Japanese post-Cold War security policy, analyzing how Japan reacted to the end of the Cold war, the results of the transformation in the post-Cold War security environment, and exactly how Japanese security has changed from its cold war design.

Examines the evolution of Japan's response to humanitarian crises in the context of global debates on humanitarianism. This book explores the broader cultural and historical framework within which Japanese humanitarian ideas and attitudes to human rights have developed. It analyzes Japan's changing perceptions and attitudes to overseas assistance.

This book contributes to the debate about the impact of globalisation upon women and examines the impact of restructuring upon women's employment in Japan.

This book explores what Japanese sub-national Governments do, where they do it and why before considering the implications of these factors for Japanese international relations and domestic politics.

Analysing the political economy of reproduction and its role in the process of Japanese modernization, this text explores state attempts and policies to intervene into women's bodies and everyday lives to integrate them into the Japanese political economy. The author develops a model to assess reproduction from 1968 until the present day.

A history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development in Japan. The text challenges the principal interpretations of how the economy functions revealing a darker side of Japanese capitalism in his examination of the roles played by class power, manipulation and mystification.

Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry analyses changes in production networks in the Japanese electronics industry.

Analysing Japan's international relations and participation in the multilateral forum - the G8 - since its creation in 1975, this text explores the motivation of the Japanese government and non-governmental actors' aims and objectives, and examines how and to what extent they have been achieved.

Explores the nature of regionalism by conducting a comprehensive analysis of over 30 regionalist proposals made by Japan and other Asian countries throughout the post-war period.

Japan's Contested Constitution is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Japanese domestic politics and the international role of Japan.

Deconstructs a century of racial discourse in Japan against the background of labour migration from the colonial periphery, focussing on structural 'pull' factors that determined immigration.

Based on primary resources, including documents and extensive interviews with Japanese policy makers, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed empirical analysis of Japan's involvement in Asia-Pacific security multilateralism after the end of the Cold War with reference to the ARF.

Focuses on Japanese policy toward Middle East security issues, examining how policy is shaped by the need to both maintain Japan's security alliance with the US and its oil relationship with states in the Middle East.

Focuses on the construction of the Japanese self using Russia as the other, examining the history of bilateral relations and comparisons between the Russian and Japanese national character.

Examines the representation of so-called Others - foreigners, ethnic minorities, and Okinawans - in Japanese cinema; investigating how these representations are related to the socio-political context of contemporary Japan.

This is the first major study to trace development of the Ainu, the 'indigenous' people of Northern Japan, and to explore the ways in which their identities have been constructed.

Examines one of the most central and defining aspects of capitalist modernity in contemporary Japan.

Provides insights into Japan and East Asian relations, principally through the examination of changes in Japan's regional policy. Furthering discussions on Japan's regional activism, this book explores how Japan and East Asian relations have developed, how Japan's regional policy has changed, and why.

The purpose of this book is to illuminate the changing nature of contemporary Japan by decoding a range of political, economic and social boundaries, with a focus on the period following the inauguration of Prime Minister Koizumi Junichir¿¿s administration (2001¿6). A rapid turnover of prime ministers followed Koizumi¿Abe Shinz¿ (2006--7), Fukuda Yasuo (2007--8) and As¿ Tar¿ (2008¿)¿but the transformation set in motion through his promotion of a more proactive role for Japan internationally, and the implementation of `structural reforms¿ domestically, set the direction for future administrations. The central argument of the book is that, in order to achieve the twin goals of greater international proactivity and domestic reform, the government and other actors supporting the new direction for Japan pushed forward by the Koizumi administration needed to take action in order to destabilize and reformulate a range of extant boundaries. This task was achieved by deploying material as well as normative resources, including the production of new discourses about the way these resources should be deployed.

Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okinawa from the perspective of political economy and society.