The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honour of J.A.A. Stockwin
Redaktion: Williams, David; Kersten, Rikki

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Produktbeschreibung

Leftist thought and activism stands as a defining force in the articulation of political culture and policy in modern Japan. Operating from the periphery of formal political power for the most part, the Japanese Left has had an impact that extends far beyond their limited success at the ballot box. This book focuses attention on the influence exerted by the Left on the political landscape of Japan in the modern era, and assesses the reasons for its successes and failures in terms of its impact on enduring dimensions of Japanese political thought, activism and policy.
Studies of the Japanese Left have hitherto focused on the formal political entities of the Japan Socialist Party and the Japan Communist Party, on crisis points or on single-issue factors such as Article 9 of the 1947 Constitution or the Gulf War in 1991. With essays from an international team of contributors looking at the deeper issues such as pacifist idealism, the dynamics of opposition politics in Japan, and distinguishing features of Japanese Leftist policy such as opposition to liberalization of agricultural trade and positive relations with North Korea, The Left in Japanese Politics will provide a much-needed fresh interpretation of the modern sweep of Japanese politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134313990
• Artikelnr.: 43071310

Autorenporträt

Rikki Kersten is Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is the editor of our Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian History and Politics. David Williams, one of Europe's leading thinkers on modern Japan, is the author of Japan: Beyond the End of History, Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science and Defending Japan's Pacific War, all published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

A Tribute to Arthur Stockwin Rikki Kersten. An Oxford Festschrift: The Book
in Brief David Williams. Acknowledgments. Japanese Usage and Style Part 1:
Left-Wing Thought from the Russian Revolution to the War on Terrorism 1.
The Left Hand of Darkness: Forging a Political Left in Interwar Japan
Christopher Goto-Jones 2. Painting the Emperor Red: The Emperor and the
Socialists in the 1930s Rikki Kersten 3. The Japanese Evasion of
Sovereignty - Article 9 and the European Canon: Hobbes, Carl Schmitt and
Foucault David Williams Part 2: The Metamorphosis of the Left in Postwar
Japan 4. The Rise and Fall of Nikkyo-so: Classroom Idealism, Union Power
and the Three Phases of Japanese Politics since 1955 Robert W. Aspinall 6.
'Democratic Government' and the Left Koichi Nakano 7. The End Game of
Socialism: From the JSP to the DJP Sarah Hyde Part 3: Settling Accounts:
Globalization, American Empire and History's Judgment 8. Neo-Liberal
Economic Policy Preferences of the 'New Left': Home-Grown or an
Anglo-American Import? Leonard J. Schoppa 9. After Abu Ghraib: American
Empire, the Left-Wing Intellectual and Japan Studies David Williams 10. The
Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Historical Overview Junichi
Banno