New and Published Books
1-10 of 49 results in Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series
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Japan's International Relations
Politics, Economics and Security, 2nd Edition
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
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Japan and the G7/8
1975-2002
Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series
Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
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The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan
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
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Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry
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
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Japan's Security Identity
From a Peace-State to an International-State
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
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Japan's Subnational Governments in International Affairs
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
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Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism
Towards a Proactive Leadership Role?
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
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Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce
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
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The Internationalization of Japan
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
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Asian Regionalism and Japan
The Politics of Membership in Regional Diplomatic, Financial and Trade Groups
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
Forthcoming Books
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Japan's Changing Role in Humanitarian Crises
To Be Published February 27th 2013 -
Japan and Britain at War and Peace
To Be Published March 14th 2013 -
Nationalism and Power Politics in Japan's Relations with China: A Neoclassical Realist Interpretation
To Be Published June 29th 2013 -
Governing Insecurity in Japan: The Domestic Discourse and Policy Response
To Be Published December 30th 2013


