دانلود کتاب Japanese Contemporary Politics

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Cover
Half Title
Book Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword by Tetsuo Najita
Translators’ acknowledgments
List of acronyms
Introduction: underlying causes of political transformations in Japan
Two challenges to Japanese politics
The impact of globalization on Japan’s bureaucratic politics
The decline of party politics
Regional politics and gender as frontiers of Japanese politics
Security as an international and national issue
Note
Reference
1 The path of contemporary Japanese politics: four stages of development
From defeat in war to reconstruction: the era of high politics
The politics of high-speed economic growth and the end of interest-centered politics
The advent of the deindustrialized society: the era of life-centered politics
Transnational politics: the era of globalization politics
References
Further reading
2 The dominance of the bureaucracy
Japan’s bureaucratic system and its “catch-up” mentality
The developmental state
Arguing against Japanese exceptionalism
Japanese modernization and the bureaucratic system
The Meiji state’s exoteric and esoteric teachings
“Descending from heaven” (amakudari): linking the public with the private
The actual state of the bureaucratic governance system
Administrative guidance as a control mechanism
Administration reform and deregulation
Administrative reform: central bureaucracy reorganization and power decentralization
Deregulation’s social impacts
References
Further reading
3 The effectiveness of parliamentary politics
The development of parliamentary politics
Toward the 1960 Japan–U.S. Security Treaty (ANPO)
Interest politics: political stability in the long years of the Ikeda administration
The era of Tanaka Kakuei politics
The decline of the LDP and the advent of political power exchange with the DPJ: the slow path to rivalry politics
Globalization politics
Post-Cold War political dialogue
Parliamentary committees and their transformation
Confrontation and cooperation
Fundamental legislation and the establishment of agreement: basic laws
Political transformation from one-party rule to alliance administration
Diet activity: “high politics, low bureaucracy”
The influence of Tanaka Kakuei
Political corruption and the collapse of long-term LDP rule
Factions and appropriation: the hotbed of political corruption
The era of coalition administrations
Reshuffling political party affiliations
The transformation of party politics
A shift in political administration
Note
References
Further reading
4 Changing attitudes: public opinion and politics
Contemporary Japanese political consciousness and public opinion
Changes in contemporary Japanese political consciousness and public opinion
A decreasing consciousness over citizen rights
The stagnating interest in political activity
Contemporary Japanese nationalism and globalization
Public opinion and the mass media
Japan’s press club
Transforming support for political parties and the cabinet
A distancing from the LDP and the birth of “unaffiliated politics”
The effect of public opinion trends and administrations
Notes
References
Further reading
5 Selecting people of influence
What election outcomes reveal
Electoral system: the structure of elections under the mid-sized constituency system
Candidates
Policies
Campaigns
The emergence of independent voters and their impact
The declining influence of the political parties
Notes
References
Further reading
6 Local politics: the frontier of Japanese politics
Actors in local politics in Japan
Recommendations made by district organizations
The political advancement of women
Resident and citizen movement groups
Local assemblies and the role of assembly members
Transitions in local representation and the advancement of women
From democratically elected leaders to political party heads
The era of regional leaders
The local referenda in specific regions
Local assembly opposition
Freedom of information: whistle blowing
Establishment of the Freedom of Information Act
Elections without political parties: the case of the 1997 Miyagi gubernatorial election
Social policies at the community level in the post-industrial era
Environmental policy
Public welfare
Culture and “internationalization”
Notes
References
Further reading
7 Gender and Japanese politics: transformation by women
Gender and politics in Japan
The present state of women’s political advancement
The current state of “masculine politics”
Limited female participation in social activism
Forces driving the advancement of female politics
Doi Takako and women’s political advancement
International influences
The “feminization of politics” and Japanese political reform
The effect of women’s advancement into politics
Notes
References
Further reading
8 The gap between politics and economics
Postwar high-speed economic growth era economic policy and planning: active and passive approaches to economic growth
Economic policies during the high-speed growth era
Economic plan for the post-industrial society
Globalization and “structural reform”
Critique of structural reform
Politics and money: the changing relationship between politicians and big business
Behind Japanese political scandal
Reform and the Political Funds Control Law
The Democratic Party and political contributions
Political contributions in other democratic states
Notes
References
Further reading
9 Globalization and national security
Peace and national security in postwar Japan
Why the gap in security assurance issues
Making security a personal issue
The contemporary significance of comprehensive security
A made-in-Japan concept of security
Globalization crises and the revision of security theory
The view of the Japanese Defense Agency
The perception of the Japanese Coast Guard
New questions and new perspectives on security
Globalization crises and their countermeasures
Innovative measures to combat global issues
Notes
References
Further reading
10 Japan’s nuclear power politics
What Fukushima brought to light
Nuclear village funding
Collusion with METI
Intervention in the political realm
Silencing the mass media
Buying in the academic world
Dominating regional political and business circles
Systemic concealment and irresponsibility
Reappraising Japanese nuclear politics
Toward nuclear power abandonment
Germany succeeds where Japan failed
Japanese efforts to phase-out nuclear energy: the Friday demonstrations
Challenges to abandoning nuclear power: the limits of reform
Nuclear power lawsuits
Notes
References
Further reading
Appendix I: Japan’s major postwar political parties
Appendix II: Japan’s postwar prime ministers
Appendix III: primary Japanese cabinet ministries
Postwar ministries
Japanese ministries at present
Index