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

With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political eco

This book investigates Japanese politics in the postwar era from theoretical and comparative perspectives. After providing historical context, it offers an in-d

Explores the politics and economics of the Abe government and evaluates major policies, such as Abenomics policy reforms.

The focus of this book is on the Japanese economic bureaucracy, particularly on the famous Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), as the leading s