The Vitality of Japan

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Issues in Economic Strategy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Japan: The Course Ahead

      • Kenneth S. Courtis

      Pages 3-17

   3. The Yen’s Role in World Financial Diplomacy: Should we Focus on Trade Flows or Investment Flows?

      • David D. Hale

      Pages 18-57

   4. The Japan Problem: Economic Challenge or Strategic Threat?

      • Robert Gilpin

      Pages 58-88

3. Issues in Domestic Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. The Need for Reform in Japanese Politics

      • J. A. A. Stockwin

      Pages 91-111

   3. The Emptiness of Affluence: Vitality, Embolism and Symbiosis in the Japanese Body Politic

      • Gavan McCormack

      Pages 112-130

   4. Organised Dependence: Politicians and Bureaucrats in Japan

      • E. B. Keehn

      Pages 131-148

4. International Political Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Japan’s Contributions to International Society: The Limits Imposed by Domestic Political Structures

      • David Arase

      Pages 151-179

   3. Japan and America in East Asia in the Wake of the Cold War: Drift and Immobilism amidst International Upheaval

      • Donald C. Hellmann

      Pages 180-192

   4. Domestic Constraints and Japan’s Emerging International Role

      • Kent E. Calder

      Pages 193-206

   5. Missions, Mechanisms and Modalities of Fledgling Cooperative Regimes in the Pacific

      • Takashi Inoguchi

      Pages 207-223

5. Social Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Creativity without Diversity? The Anomalous Case of the Japanese University

      • Ivan P. Hall

      Pages 227-255

   3. Socialisation and Social Vitality: A Psychocultural Perspective

      • Takeyuki Tsuda, George A. De Vos

      Pages 256-301

6. Back Matter

   Pages 303-414

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In this volume the reader will find interesting forms of analysis on Japan just as it was embarking on potentially the most important changes in its political system since 1955, when the Liberal Democratic Party was created through a merger of Japan's two dominant conservative parties of that era. With the old Cold War verities no longer in place, new challenges arose for the Japanese government and Japanese corporations. The challenges of the 1990s include a protracted domestic economic downturn, and the need to begin redefining Japan's international profile in the face of an increasingly powerful China, an ever more desperate North Korea, and shifts in the shared responsibility built into the US-Japan security treaty.

• China
• cold war
• creativity
• government
• North Korea
• politics
• reform
• socialisation
• strategy
• university
• war

• Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, Luxembourg, Belgium

  Armand Clesse

• United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan

  Takashi Inoguchi

• Japan-America Society, Los Angeles, USA

  E. B. Keehn

• University of Oxford, UK

  J. A. A. Stockwin

DAVID ARASE Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Pomona College, Claremont, California KENT E. CALDER Director of the Program on US-Japan Relations, Princeton University, Tenured Professor of Political and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School KENNETH S. COURTIS Professor and First Vice-President of Deutsche Bank Group Asia GEORGE A. DE VOS Psychologist and Professor emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley ROBERT GILPIN is the Dwight D Eisenhour Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University DAVID D. HALE Chief Economist and Senior Vice-president of Kemper Financial Companies IVAN P. HALL was a Professor at Tsukuba, Keio and Gakushuin Universities DONALD C. HELLMAN Professor of International Studies and Political Science, Henry M Jackson School of International Studies and Seattle Director of the APEC Study Centre GAVAN MCCORMACK Professor of Japanese History, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University TAKEYUKI TSUDA PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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