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JAPAN AND BRITAIN IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 195.00Britian and Japan in the Contemporary World provides up-to-date analyses of these two countries in terms of economics, politics, security and identity on the global, regional, subnational and civic levels. The book moves beyond an analysis of state-to-state relations between Britain and Japan by examining the role of civil society in the relationship... more...
Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan
Routledge 1997; US$ 195.00An inspiring analysis of events surrounding two women's attempted assassination of the Emperor of Japan, and the separate penalties faced by these women both in terms of their death sentences and the wider context surrounding their lives. more...
Collected Writings of Gordon Daniels
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 378.00Originally a student of Meiji Japan, Gordon Daniels is widely known for his work on the Pacific War and the Occupation of Japan, with particular regard to the world of communications in film and propaganda as well as Japanese sport. He has also been closely involved with the post-war era of international relations and Japan, as well as studies in Japanese... more...
Language, Ideology and Japanese History Textbooks
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00The Japanese history textbook debate is one that keeps making the news, particularly with reference to claims that Japan has never 'apologised properly' for its actions between 1931 and 1945, and that it is one of the few liberal, democratic countries in which textbooks are controlled and authorised by the central government. There are frequent protests,... more...
Japan and the G7/8
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 49.95This book analyses Japan's international relations and participation in the multilateral forum, the G8, since its creation in 1975. more...
Military Intervention in Pre-War Japanese Politics
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 178.00This is a study of the impact of inter-war naval arms control policy-making on the domestic politics of Japan, especially the areas of civil-military, inter-military (Army/Navy) and especially intra-military (Navy) relations and on the professional and political career of one leading naval figure, Admiral Kato Kanji (1873-1939). In this re-appraisal... more...
The Conscience of Lebanon
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 61.95This work is a combination of an account of a most captivating Lebanese personality with a penetrating analysis of the historical and religious contours of Lebanon. Mordechai Nisan spent much time with Etienne Sakr between 2000 and 2001. Set within the context of the national political narrative of Lebanon, this volume offers a portrait of Sakr and... more...
A History of Japan
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 32.00In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japanese history in its entirety to identify the factors underlying the nation's progression to superpower. Japan's achievement is explained not merely in economic terms, but at a more fundamental level, as a product of historical patterns of response to... more...
Japan's China Policy
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 49.95Japan's China Policy understands Japan's foreign policy in terms of power - one of the most central concepts of political analysis. It contributes a fresh understanding to the subject by developing relational power as an analytical framework and by applying it to significant issues in Japan's China policy: the negotiations for a bilateral investment... more...
Reconfiguring Modernity
University of California Press 2001; US$ 55.00Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature's political authority were central... more...









