Download or read book The New Japan Government and Politics written by Harold Scott QUIGLEY (and TURNER (John Elliot)) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book NEW JAPAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS written by HAROLD SCOTT. QUIGLEY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Japan Government and Politics written by Harold Scott Quigley and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1956 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Japanese Politics and Government written by Alisa Gaunder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Japanese politics in the postwar era from theoretical and comparative perspectives. After providing historical context, it offers an in-depth exploration of postwar political institutions, political reform in the 1990s, the policymaking process, and the politics of economic growth and stagnation. The author draws attention to key policy issues including women and work, immigration, Japanese aging/low fertility society, and Constitutional revision. By delving into Japan’s international relations, the book sheds light on Japan’s security and trade policies, Japan’s role in the Asian region, and Japan’s bilateral relations with the U.S., China, South Korea, and the EU. Themes and questions addressed throughout the text include: How and why did Japan modernize so successfully when so many other countries fell prey to colonialism and authoritarianism? What explains the Japanese economic miracle and its subsequent economic stagnation? What accounts for Japan’s successful democratization? In the international realm, why has Japan achieved economic superpower status without achieving political superpower status? What has or has not changed since the historic election of the Democratic Party of Japan in 2009, and why? What is the future trajectory of Japanese politics? Connecting Japan to larger themes in comparative politics and linking Japan’s history, institutions, policymaking process, and international relations to experiences and structures in other countries, this book is essential reading for any course on Japanese or Asian Politics.

Download or read book Introduction to Japanese Politics written by Hayes and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely used text is an even-handed, forthright attempt to explain the political life of Japan as well as the forces that shape it. It demystifies this complex society by explaining the historical background for modern Japan; the political process, its formal structure, the party system, and citizen participation; the social order and the domestic economy; and Japan's role in international politics with emphasis on U.S.-Japanese relations and the international economy. The revised and updated Third Edition covers the new ground of 1995-1999, a period during which Japan experienced extraordinary political and economic change.

Download or read book Introduction to Japanese Politics written by Louis D. Hayes and published by East Gate Book. This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely used text is an even-handed, forthright attempt to explain the political life of Japan as well as the forces that shape it. It demystifies this complex society by explaining the historical background for modern Japan; the political process, its formal structure, the party system, and citizen participation; the social order and the domestic economy; and Japan's role in international politics with emphasis on U.S.-Japanese relations and the international economy. The revised and updated Third Edition covers the new ground of 1995-1999, a period during which Japan experienced extraordinary political and economic change.

Download or read book Japanese Government and Politics written by Harold S. Quigley and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY BY HAROLD S. QUIGLEY, PH. D., LL. D. PRU H. SSUK OFPOLITICAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA THE CENTURY CO. NEW YORK LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1932, BY THE CENTURY CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK, OR PORTIONS THEREOF, IN ANY FORM. 392 PRINTED IN U. 8. A, TO MY MOTHER PREFACE This book was undertaken to meet a need which the author has experienced and which others have expressed. It is offered as an introductory study and makes no pretensions to completeness or finality. Materials in its field are scattered and, in many instances, rendered inaccessible by difficulties of language. General works in any Western language are few, and none attempts to cover the whole subject, even in outline. Japanese scholarly works are discussions of legal relations rather than descriptions of institutions or anal yses of actual procedures. Monographs are even scarcer than gen eral works. It has been necessary to depend largely upon transla tions of documents, newspaper materials, and interviews with Japanese and foreign scholars, officials, publicists, and politicians. Facilities for the translation of Japanese documents and treatises are difficult of access. There is urgent need that the indispensable collection edited by Dr. W. W. McLaren, Japanese Government Documents, 7 be supplemented with new volumes of translations covering the period since 1889, and that authoritative treatises of Japanese legal scholars be translated. It may, however, be pointed out that the works of Japanese scholars written in European lan guages, herein cited, all derive inspiration and substance from the rec ognized authorities Minobe, Hozumi, Uyesugi, Shimizu, Ichimura, Yoshino, Sasaki, Moriguchi, and others who customarily write in their own language and whose works still, unfortunately, await translation. Four sojourns in Japan in 1921, 1923, 1930, and 1931 have made it possible for the author to observe political life in that country through attendance at sessions of the Diet and of the courts and visits to ministries, to local government offices, and to the gov ernments of Chosen and Kwantung Province. It was the authors good fortune that during the period of his 1930 visit a general election took place. Almost without exception, his inquiries met with the finest courtesy, and efforts were made to provide informa tion concerning the activities under investigation. Many hours were given most graciously by officials high and low, university pro fessors, missionaries, journalists, business men, students, and others. vii viii PREFACE Without suggesting that the facts or interpretations set down in this book are those which any of the following would have written, the author believes that he owes much to these persons for whatever freshness or reality he may have expressed in its lines Professors T. Minobe, S. Moriguchi, M. Royama, K. Takayanagi, Y. Takagi, and T. Yabe Prince I. Tokugawa, the late Marquis K. Komura, Count Soyeshima, Viscount K. Kaneko, Admiral Viscount M. Saito, Baron K. Shidehara, General K. Ugaki, and Admiral K. Kato Doctors R. Fujisawa, T. Kameda, R. Masujima, I. Nitobe, K. Ono zuka, S. T. Takeuchi, E. Uyehara, and S. Washio Justice M. Miyake, Mayor C. Ariyoshi, and Governor Yamagata Messrs. I. Abe, H. Ikeda, M. Ishida, H. Mori, T. Mayeda, T. Naruse, Y. Ozaki, T. Shiratori, N. Yamamasu, and M. Zumoto alsoProfessor E. W. Clement, and Messrs. Hugh Byas, C. L. De Vault, E. R. Dickover, Charles Hutchinson, C. A. Mac Donald, H. V. Redman, A. K. Reischauer, F. N. Scott, and Morgan Young. With all of the per sons named, and with others whose help is no less appreciated, the author has enjoyed personal interviews, and with many of them long-continued acquaintance. To the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation the author is deeply indebted for a fellowship which made possible a visit of three months in 1930...

Download or read book The Government and Politics of Japan written by 阿部斉 and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the central government of Japan the bicameral parliament and civil service bureaucracy and how these institutions create the laws and policies of the country. Discusses the electoral system, political parties, the role of local governments, democracy and political participati

Download or read book The Making of the New Japan written by IPS Chiyoda-ku and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yasuhiro Nakasone's rise to political prominence began under the watchful eye of the American occupation with which he had a direct and confrontational relationship, arguing for the ending of the occupation and the restoration of sovereignty to Japan. Nakasone argued for Japan's need to become a 'normal' nation which in his view involved an enhanced international role for Japan and an enhanced role for the prime minister in domestic policy-making. Both ideas have come to win an increasingly broad acceptance, although Nakasone's slow rise to the position of prime minister bears testament to the controversy aroused by his views. These political memoirs chart the journey from his youth in the aftermath of the First World War to his appearance on the world stage at the side of President Reagan. They conclude with his thoughts, on the eve of the domestic upheavals which saw the fall of the LDP, on the prospects for a third 'opening' of Japan to rival the Meiji Restoration and the MacArthur reforms. Now an adviser to a younger generation of politicians, he is regarded by many as a modern-day Genro for Japan.

Download or read book Democracy and the Japanese Government written by Hiroshi Sato and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Japan Transformed written by Frances Rosenbluth and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains a formidable economy and its political system is healthier than at any time in its history. Japan Transformed explores the historical, political, and economic forces that led to the country's recent evolution, and looks at the consequences for Japan's citizens and global neighbors. The book examines Japanese history, illustrating the country's multiple transformations over the centuries, and then focuses on the critical and inexorable advance of economic globalization. It describes how global economic integration and urbanization destabilized Japan's postwar policy coalition, undercut the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's ability to buy votes, and paved the way for new electoral rules that emphasized competing visions of the public good. In contrast to the previous system that pitted candidates from the same party against each other, the new rules tether policymaking to the vast swath of voters in the middle of the political spectrum. Regardless of ruling party, Japan's politics, economics, and foreign policy are on a neoliberal path. Japan Transformed combines broad context and comparative analysis to provide an accurate understanding of Japan's past, present, and future.

Download or read book The Logic of Japanese Politics written by Gerald L. Curtis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in Japanese politics for more than thirty years, and he draws on their candid comments to provide invaluable and graphic insights into the world of Japanese politics. By relating the behavior of Japanese political leaders to the institutions within which they must operate, Curtis makes sense out of what others have regarded as enigmatic or illogical. He utilizes his skills as a scholar and his knowledge of the inner workings of the Japanese political system to highlight the commonalities of Japanese and Western political practices while at the same time explaining what sets Japan apart. Curtis rejects the notion that cultural distinctiveness and consensus are the defining elements of Japan's political decision making, emphasizing instead the competition among and the profound influence of individuals operating within particular institutional contexts on the development of Japan's politics. The discussions featured here -- as they survey both the detailed events and the broad structures shaping the mercurial Japanese political scene of the 1990s -- draw on extensive conversations with virtually all of the decade's political leaders and focus on the interactions among specific politicians as they struggle for political power. The Logic of Japanese Politics covers such important political developments as • the Liberal Democratic Party's egress from power in 1993, after reigning for nearly four decades, and their crushing defeat in the "voters' revolt" of the 1998 upper-house election; • the formation of the 1993 seven party coalition government led by prime minister Morihiro Hosokawa and its collapse eight months later; • the historic electoral reform of 1994 which replaced the electoral system operative since the adoption of universal manhood suffrage in 1925; and • the decline of machine politics and the rise of the mutohaso -- the floating, nonparty voter. Scrutinizing and interpreting a complex and changing political system, this multi-layered chronicle reveals the dynamics of democracy at work -- Japanese-style. In the process, The Logic of Japanese Politics not only offers a fascinating picture of Japanese politics and politicians but also provides a framework for understanding Japan's attempts to surmount its present problems, and helps readers gain insight into Japan's future.

Download or read book Ozawa Ichir and Japanese Politics written by Aurelia George Mulgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ozawa Ichirō was the axis on which Japanese politics turned for more than two decades. He helped to reshape the electoral system, political funding rules, the evolution of the party system, the nature of executive government, the roles and powers of bureaucrats, and the conduct of parliamentary and policymaking processes. Admired and reviled in almost equal measure, Ozawa has been the most debated and yet least understood politician in Japan, with little agreement to be found amongst the many who have debated his patent political assets and palpable political flaws. This book examines the political goals, behaviour, methods and practices of Ozawa Ichirō, and in doing so, provides fascinating insights into the inner workings of Japanese politics. It explores Ozawa’s paradoxical and conflicting contributions in terms of two contrasting models of ‘old’ and ‘new’ politics. Indeed, therein lies the problem of understanding the ‘real’ Ozawa: he remained a practitioner of old politics despite his rhetorical agenda of change to bring about new politics. In seeking to unravel the Ozawa enigma, Aurelia George Mulgan reveals his primary motivations, to establish whether he sought power primarily to enact reforms, or, whether his reform goals simply disguised power-seeking objectives. This volume seeks to illuminate Ozawa’s true character as a politician, and untangle the complex elements of old and new politics that he represents. Through an in-depth study of Ozawa and his political activities, this book shows how the Japanese political system works at the micro level of individual politicians, political relationships and systems. As such it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese politics, Asian politics and political systems.

Download or read book Politics in Japan written by Bradley M. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Changing Politics in Japan written by Ikuo Kabashima and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture—and Gill Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. They focus on the dynamic relationship between voters and elected or nonelected officials and describe the shifts that have occurred in how voters respond to or control political elites and how officials both respond to, and attempt to influence, voters. The authors return time and again to the theme of changes in representation and accountability. Kabashima and Steel set out to demolish the still prevalent myth that Japanese politics are a stagnant set of entrenched systems and interests that are fundamentally undemocratic. In its place, they reveal a lively and dynamic democracy, in which politicians and parties are increasingly listening to and responding to citizens' needs and interests and the media and other actors play a substantial role in keeping democratic accountability alive and healthy. Kabashima and Steel describe how all the political parties in Japan have adapted the ways in which they attempt to organize and channel votes and argue that contrary to many journalistic stereotypes the government is increasingly acting in the "the interests of citizens"—the median voter's preferences.

Download or read book The State and Politics In Japan written by Ian Neary and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics in Japan is undergoing a major transformation. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has, since 2012, embarked upon an ambitious programme of policy reforms as well as changes to Japan’s governing structures and processes. At the heart of this policy agenda is ‘Abenomics’ – a set of measures designed to boost Japan’s flagging economy, but one which is yet to deliver on its promises. In this fully revised and updated second edition of his classic text, Ian Neary explores the dynamics of democracy in Japan, introducing the key institutions, developments and actors in its politics from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Packed with illustrative material and examples, this comprehensive study traces the continuities and the changes that are underway in five major policy areas: foreign and defence, industry, social welfare, the environment and human rights. Assuming no prior knowledge of Japan, this textbook will be an invaluable and welcome resource for all students interested in the government and politics of contemporary Japan and its international profile.

Download or read book Japan Government politics written by Robert Karl Reischauer and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: