Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

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1. Japan's International Relations

   Politics, Economics and Security, 2nd Edition

   By Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher W. Hughes, Hugo Dobson

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   The new edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations....

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Japan and the G7/8

   1975-2002

   By Hugo Dobson

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan

   By Takeda Hiroko

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   This book analyzes the political economy of reproduction and its role in the process of Japanese modernization. Hiroko analyzes state attempts and policies to intervene into women's bodies and everyday lives to integrate them into the Japanese political economy. Based on Foucault's concept of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry

   By Ralph Paprzycki

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry analyses changes in production networks in the Japanese electronics industry. Japan's post-war success in the assembly industries is frequently attributed to innovative approaches to the organization of production: Japanese assemblers have...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Japan's Security Identity

   From a Peace-State to an International-State

   By Bhubhindar Singh

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   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...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Japan's Subnational Governments in International Affairs

   By Purnendra Jain

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   This book moves away from the common belief that Japan’s international relations are firmly the preserve of the national government in Japan’s highly centralised political system. Examining examples of subnational governments (SNGs) across Japan the book uncovers a significant and generally...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism

   Towards a Proactive Leadership Role?

   By Shigeko Hayashi

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   Based on original fieldwork including interviews held with Japanese officials, this text provides important new insight into Japan and East Asian relations, principally through the close examination of changes in Japan’s regional policy. Furthering discussions on Japan’s new regional activism,...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce

   By Beverley Bishop

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce contributes to the debate about the impact of globalisation upon women. It examines the effect of restructuring upon women's employment in Japan and describes the actions women are taking individually and collectively to campaign for change in their...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Internationalization of Japan

   Edited by Glenn D. Hook, Michael Weiner

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   The Internationalization of Japan provides the English-speaking reader with the opportunity to hear what some of Japan's leading social scientists and other commentators have to say about the internationalization of their country as well as their country's impact overseas.The topic is of extreme...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
10. Asian Regionalism and Japan

    The Politics of Membership in Regional Diplomatic, Financial and Trade Groups

    By Shintaro Hamanaka

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    This book explores the essential nature of regionalism by conducting a comprehensive analysis of more than 30 regionalist proposals made by Japan and other Asian countries throughout the post-war period. Shintaro Hamanaka examines the whole post war period and covers all regionalist...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge