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Japan by Jeff Kingston 9781509525447
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $63.73Japan, anchored by its traditions, transformed by American post-war Occupation, and globally recognized for its technological innovations, manufacturing prowess, and pop culture, faces powerful... -
Japan by Jeff Kingston 9781509525454
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.29Japan, anchored by its traditions, transformed by American post-war Occupation, and globally recognized for its technological innovations, manufacturing prowess, and pop culture, faces powerful... -
Japan in Transformation, 1945-2020 Jeff Kingston 9781138369610
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $77.59Japan in Transformation, 1945-2020 has been newly revised and updated to examine the 3.11 natural and nuclear disasters, Emperor Akihito's abdication, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's legacies, the 2019... -
Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan Jeff Kingston 9780815352068
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $76.30This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary textbook written by leading specialists on... -
Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan Jeff Kingston 9781138647039
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $95.63In twenty-first century Japan there are numerous instances of media harassment, intimidation, censorship and self-censorship that undermine the freedom of the press and influence how the news is... -
The Politics of Religion, Nationalism, and Identity in Asia by Jeff Kingston 9781442276864
Booksplease Price: $158.01This comprehensive book provides a comparative analysis of religious nationalism in contemporary, globalized Asia. Exploring the nexus of religion, identity, and nationalism, Jeff Kingston assesses... -
The Politics of Religion, Nationalism, and Identity in Asia by Jeff Kingston 9781442276871
Booksplease Price: $72.97This comprehensive book provides a comparative analysis of religious nationalism in contemporary, globalized Asia. Exploring the nexus of religion, identity, and nationalism, Jeff Kingston assesses... -
Nationalism in Asia: A History Since 1945 Jeff Kingston (Temple University in Japan) 9780470673027
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $42.53Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. Explores... -
Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s by Jeff Kingston 9781405191944
RRP: $165.65Booksplease Price: $152.51Contemporary Japan: History, Politics and Social Change since the 1980s presents a comprehensive examination of the causes of the Japanese economic bubble in the late 1980s and the socio-political... -
Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in 21st Century Japan Jeff Kingston 9780415274838
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.87The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's lost decade' to describe how the phenomenal growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the country was crippled by enormous and ongoing political,... -
Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11 by Jeff Kingston 9780415698566
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as... -
Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s Jeff Kingston (Temple University, Japan) 9781118315071
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $42.53The second edition of this comprehensive study of recent Japanese history now includes the author's expert assessment of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, including the political and... -
Japan's Foreign Relations in Asia James D.J. Brown (Temple University, Japan) 9781138055452
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $76.30Japan's Foreign Relations in Asia has been specifically designed to introduce students to Japan's foreign relations in Asia since 1990, a period in which there have been dramatic developments in... -
Nationalism in Asia – A History Since 1945 by J Kingston 9780470673010
RRP: $126.65Booksplease Price: $117.70Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. Explores... -
Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity Michael Weiner (Soka University of America, USA) 9780415772648
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Based on original research, Japan's Minorities provides a clear historical introduction to the formation of individual minorities, followed by an analysis of the contemporary situation. This second... -
Former Prime Ministers in Japan: Power, Influence and the Role of Informal Politics Hugo Dobson 9781529206838
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.64Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Despite growing international interest in the position and power of the Japanese prime minister, there is little existing research on what... -
An Emerging Non-Regular Labour Force in Japan: The Dignity of Dispatched Workers by Huiyan Fu 9781138858183
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $100.60Like many industrialised nations, the current employment trend in Japan centres on diversification of the labour market with an increased use of temporary labour. Among a wide range of non-regular... -
Population Decline and Ageing in Japan - The Social Consequences Florian Coulmas 9780415480116
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population decline and ageing. It argues that social ageing is a phenomenon that follows in the... -
Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia by Tina Burrett
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $12.75This book analyzes the constraints on press freedom and the ways in which independent reporting and reporters are at risk in contemporary Asia to provide a barometer of democratic development in the... -
Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses by Mark R. Mullins 9781137521316
Booksplease Price: $216.78Japan was shaken by the 'double disaster' of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the 'triple disaster' of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. This... -
Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy by Bertil Lintner 9786162150159
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $45.98Burma's pro-democracy movement emerged in 1988 when massive demonstrations swept across the country. This book gives an account of the movement, its emergence and growth, and Aung San Suu Kyi's... -
Dealing with Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash by Christopher Hood 9780415705998
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $85.68Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash... -
Legacies of Fukushima: 3.11 in Context by Kyle Cleveland
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $65.62It was an unlikely convergence of events. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Japanese memory and the fourth largest recorded in world history; a tsunami that peaked at forty meters,... -
Japan in the Heisei Era (1989-2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives by Noriko Murai
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08Japan in the Heisei Era (1989-2019) provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the... -
Asia's Flying Geese: How Regionalization Shapes Japan by Walter F. Hatch 9780801448683
RRP: $226.20Booksplease Price: $105.73In Asia's Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan's paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Why didn't the purportedly unstoppable pressures of... -
Asia's Flying Geese: How Regionalization Shapes Japan by Walter F. Hatch
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.32In Asia's Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan's paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Why didn't the purportedly unstoppable pressures of... -
Sino-Japanese Power Politics: Might, Money and Minds by Giulio Pugliese 9781137595539
Booksplease Price: $101.17This book is about Japan-China power politics in the military, economic and propaganda domains. The post-2012 standoff over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands has unveiled the antagonistic quality... -
Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States by Alexis Dudden 9780231141765
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $166.47Whether it's the Vatican addressing its role in the Second World War or the United States atoning for its treatment of native Hawai'ian islanders, apologizing for history has become a standard... -
Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media by Laurie Anne Freeman 9780691059549
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $153.68How is the relationship between the Japanese state and Japanese society mediated by the press? Does the pervasive system of press clubs, and the regulations underlying them, alter or even censor the... -
Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds by Megha Wadhwa
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37How does an extended stay in Japan influence Indian migrants' sense of their identity as they adapt to a country very different from their own? The number of Indians in Japan is increasing. The links... -
Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016, A History by Garren Mulloy
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $55.05Japan's post-war armed forces are a paradox, both embarrassing remnants of the past and valuable repositories of experience. This book charts the development of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF)... -
Lovesick Japan: Sex * Marriage * Romance * Law by Mark D. West
RRP: $76.05Booksplease Price: $64.08In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body of evidence-2,700 court opinions-describes a society characterized... -
The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995 by Kenneth J. Ruoff
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $35.22Few institutions are as well suited as the monarchy to provide a window on postwar Japan. The monarchy, which is also a family, has been significant both as a political and as a cultural institution... -
Nuclear Tsunami: The Japanese Government and America's Role in the Fukushima Disaster by Richard Krooth 9780739195697
Booksplease Price: $220.56This book begins with the analysis of America's post-war intelligence operations, propaganda campaigns, and strategic psychological warfare in Japan. Banking on nuclear safety myths, Japan promoted... -
Nuclear Tsunami: The Japanese Government and America's Role in the Fukushima Disaster by Richard Krooth 9780739195710
Booksplease Price: $100.82This book begins with the analysis of America's post-war intelligence operations, propaganda campaigns, and strategic psychological warfare in Japan. Banking on nuclear safety myths, Japan promoted... -
Japan Decides 2014: The Japanese General Election by Robert J. Pekkanen 9781137551993
Booksplease Price: $179.61Collecting original and high-quality analysis by top scholars from Japan, the United States, Australia, and Europe, this volume analyzes the results of the 2014 election, examining each of the major... -
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society by Victoria Bestor
RRP: $118.93Booksplease Price: $111.13The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of... -
Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary by Kenneth J. Ruoff
RRP: $64.35Booksplease Price: $52.85In 1940, Japan was into its third year of war with China, and relations with the United States were deteriorating, but it was a heady time for the Japanese nonetheless. That year, the Japanese... -
The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions by Ellis S. Krauss 9780801476822
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $36.62After holding power continuously from its inception in 1955 (with the exception of a ten-month hiatus in 1993-1994), Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost control of the national government... -
A Not-So-Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor by Joseph Nevins
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $113.30On August 30, 1999, in a United Nations-sponsored ballot, East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia and for an end to a brutal military occupation. Upon the announcement of the result,...