The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series – serie
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Risk and Securitization in Japan
1945-60
Häftad, 2017
842 kr
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Since the early 1990s, there has been an emphasis in international relations theory on the shift from a Cold War rationality of ‘threat’, to a post-Cold War rationality of ‘risk’. However, in Risk and Securitization in Japan, 1945-1960, Piers R. Williamson argues that this assumption of a shift in …
Expatriates in Japanese Firms
Experiences and Expectations of Workers from China and Vietnam
Av Chie Yorozu
Inbunden, 2022
2577 kr
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Focusing on the experiences of foreign employees working in Japanese firms, this book identifies the trends and realities facing both expatriates and firms in the current landscape of the Japanese labour market. By utilising interview data from both expatriates and Japanese HR staff, this study …
Expatriates in Japanese Firms
Experiences and Expectations of Workers from China and Vietnam
Av Chie Yorozu
Häftad, 2024
689 kr
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Focusing on the experiences of foreign employees working in Japanese firms, this book identifies the trends and realities facing both expatriates and firms in the current landscape of the Japanese labour market. By utilising interview data from both expatriates and Japanese HR staff, this study …
New Perspectives on Peacetime Anglo–Japanese Military Relations
Old Friends, New Partners
Inbunden, 2025
2564 kr
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This book examines the peacetime military relationship between the United Kingdom and Japan spanning partnerships and interactions from the 1860s to the present day.Reflecting the multiple changes in the power dynamics, relations, and nature of the military links between the U.K. and Japan over …
New Perspectives on Peacetime Anglo–Japanese Military Relations
Old Friends, New Partners
Häftad, 2026
721 kr
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This book examines the peacetime military relationship between the United Kingdom and Japan spanning partnerships and interactions from the 1860s to the present day.Reflecting the multiple changes in the power dynamics, relations, and nature of the military links between the U.K. and Japan over …
Japan’s Response to History Problems
National Interests, Ideologies, and Decision-Making Processes
Inbunden, 2025
2502 kr
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This book examines the decision-making processes behind the formulation and evolution of the Japanese government’s official stance regarding diplomatic problems connected with the history of Japan’s territorial expansionism in East Asia.Based on neoclassical realism and historical institutionalism, …
The Politics of Conformity in Japan
Inbunden, 2025
2502 kr
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This book explores the concept of conformity pressure or dōchō atsuryoku (同調圧力) in Japanese society and unveil its effects on law, politics and business, and vice versa.Conformity pressure is explored from a unique perspective, expanding on traditional psychological analyses by highlighting how …
Japan’s Response to History Problems
National Interests, Ideologies, and Decision-Making Processes
Häftad, 2026
703 kr
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This book examines the decision-making processes behind the formulation and evolution of the Japanese government’s official stance regarding diplomatic problems connected with the history of Japan’s territorial expansionism in East Asia.Based on neoclassical realism and historical institutionalism, …
The Politics of Conformity in Japan
Häftad, 2026
703 kr
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This book explores the concept of conformity pressure or dōchō atsuryoku (同調圧力) in Japanese society and unveil its effects on law, politics and business, and vice versa.Conformity pressure is explored from a unique perspective, expanding on traditional psychological analyses by highlighting how …
Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan
Häftad, 2014
765 kr
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Once thought of as a 'vanishing people', the Ainu are now reasserting both their culture and their claims to be the 'indigenous' people of Japan. Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan is the first major study to trace the outlines of Ainu history. It explores the ways in which competing versions …
Japan's Relations with North Korea and the Recalibration of Risk
Av Ra Mason
Häftad, 2017
743 kr
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North Korea’s contemporary relations with Japan have been fraught with tension. Tactics employed by Pyongyang have included abductions of Japanese citizens, missile launches over Japanese territory, intrusions into Japanese sovereign waters, and nuclear tests in defiance of Japanese and …
The Politics of War Memory in Japan
Progressive Civil Society Groups and Contestation of Memory of the Asia-Pacific War
Häftad, 2017
810 kr
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Since the 1990s, questions of Japanese wartime conduct, apologies for aggression, and compensation to former victims of the country’s imperial policies, have been brought to the fore of national and regional politics. The state is undoubtedly the most important actor in the process of memory …
Japan's Security Identity
From a Peace-State to an International-State
Häftad, 2017
743 kr
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Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a significant change in Japanese security policy, as Japan’s security identity has shifted from a peace state, to an international state. In this book, Bhubhindar Singh argues that from the 1990s onwards, the Japanese security policymaking elite …
Nationalism and Power Politics in Japan's Relations with China
A Neoclassical Realist Interpretation
Av Yew Meng Lai
Häftad, 2015
743 kr
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Despite flourishing economic interactions and deepening interdependence, the current political and diplomatic relationship between Japan and China remains lukewarm at best. Indeed, bilateral relations reached an unprecedented nadir during the spring of 2005, and again more recently in autumn 2012, …
Hegemony and the US‒Japan Alliance
Inbunden, 2018
2489 kr
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It is widely recognised that the increasing importance of the US‒Japan alliance is strongly linked to emerging threats in the Asia Pacific, with China’s rise and the ambitions of North Korea having brought the two allies closer together. This book, however, seeks to question whether these factors …
Governing Insecurity in Japan
The Domestic Discourse and Policy Response
Av Wilhelm Vosse, Reinhard Drifte m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
743 kr
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Since the end of the Cold War, Japan's security environment has changed significantly. While, on the global level, the United States is still Japan's most important security partner, the nature of the partnership has changed as a result of shifting demands from the United States, new international …
Regional Risk and Security in Japan
Whither the everyday
Av Glenn D. Hook, Ra Mason m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2489 kr
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Japan’s unusual position in the realm of international politics encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia, both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst international relations theory offers a …
Regional Risk and Security in Japan
Whither the everyday
Av Glenn D. Hook, Ra Mason m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
815 kr
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Japan’s unusual position in the realm of international politics encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia, both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst international relations theory offers a …
Decoding Boundaries in Contemporary Japan
The Koizumi Administration and Beyond
Av Glenn Hook
Häftad, 2015
498 kr
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This book sheds light on 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 Junichirō, the book grows out of a recognition that, with the Koizumi administration …
Japan and Okinawa
Structure and Subjectivity
Av Glen D. Hook, Richard Siddle
Häftad, 2014
743 kr
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Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okinawa from the perspective of political economy and society. It combines a focus on structure and subjectivity as a way to analyze Okinawa, Okinawans and their relationship with global, regional and …
Narrative Management in Corporate Japan
Investor Relations as Pseudo-Reform
Av Chie Yorozu
Inbunden, 2015
1553 kr
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Scandals and failures in some of the best known international Japanese-owned companies have shown that there is sometimes a considerable difference between the public and internal narratives of Japanese firms. This book explores the extent to which Japanese firms’ public claims reflect wider …
Nikkeiren and Japanese Capitalism
Av John Crump
Häftad, 2015
379 kr
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This book provides a history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development in Japan. The author challenges the principal interpretations of how the economy functions revealing a darker side of Japanese capitalism in his …
Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era
Refabricating Lifetime Employment Relations
Häftad, 2016
747 kr
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First Published in 2004. This book provides an in-depth examination of one of the most central and defining aspects of capitalist modernity in contemporary Japan-the lifetime employment system. It investigates the key themes surrounding the system, including the work attitudes and values of …
