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

Examines the institutional mechanisms of governance at the global level and provides evidence of the role Japan plays in these institutions. Serving as an introduction to the concept of global governance, this volume analyzes how global governance actually works through the global institutional mechanisms of governance.

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.

This title analyses the key areas of the education reform debate, including internationalism, government control of education, increased liberalization and various social problems.

Examines the nature of Japan's economic rise since World War II and its economic and political relations with other nations in the Pacific area as a result of that economic prowess.

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.

Presents a multilayered examination of the bilateral relationship between Japan and Britain with an emphasis on the issue of reconciliation. This book is suitable for scholars of Japanese and British history and international politics.

The essays in this collection examine Sino-Japanese political relations given the phenomenon of 'a rising China and a stagnating Japan', questioning whether their relationship is one of cooperation or conflict.

Presents an introduction to the formation of individual minorities, and an analysis of the contemporary situation. This book identifies and explores the six principal minority groups in Japan: the Ainu, the Burakumin, the Chinese, the Koreans, the Nikkeijin and the Okinawans.

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.

Based on original research, Japan's Minorities provides a clear historical introduction to the formation of individual minorities, followed by an analysis of the contemporary situation.

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.

Japanese Business Management demonstrates how management is moving towards a hybrid type in overseas operations and towards a western-style in Japan, where contractual principles are now beginning to be given greater weight.

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.

Harukiyo Hasegawa challenges the notion of the Japanese success story with an in-depth case study of comparative growth and decline in the steel industries of two mature economies.

This book reveals the key dimensions of Japanese globalisation today by analysing both its inward and outward manifestations. This is the first book to examine fully the issue of globalisation in relation to 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.

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

This book extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it.

Relations between Greater China and Japan have been conditioned both by responses to the impact of Western colonialism and the legacy of the Cold War. This book recognises the mistrust in Sino-Japanese relations, but also sees shared advantages in this traditionally adversarial relationship.

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.

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