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Understanding Modern Japan
A Political Economy of Development, Culture and Global Power

First Edition


January 2000 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This text provides a wide-ranging overview of the development experience of Japan within Pacific Asia and the wider global political system.

P W Preston maps Japan's shift into the modern world through a series of breaks in which Japanese polity was embedded within the wider dynamics of political-cultural and geo-economic change in the developing global system. He then charts Japan's particular development experience through four distinct historical phases before exploring the major issues in the study of modern Japan. The book examines the prospects for an increasingly integrated regional bloc in Pacific Asia in relation to the United States and the European Union.

A number of underlying themes include the intellectually contested nature of Pacific Asia, the extent to which it is possible to speak of a distinctive model of development, and the implications of Japan's rise to regional and global power for future political and policy analysis.

Understanding Modern Japan will be essential reading for all students and researchers seeking a deeper understanding of the contemporary Japan, Pacific Asia and the dynamics of global politics more broadly.

 
The Historical Development Experience of Japan
 
Japan and the Shift to the Modern World
Tokugawa, Meiji and the Pursuit of the Project of Modernity

 
 
Locating Japan within the Modern World
Success, Instability and Competing Political-Cultural Projects

 
 
Imperial Japan
Expansion and the Project of Empire in Asia

 
 
Japan in the Contemporary World
The Political-Cultural Project of Economic Nationalism

 
 
The Japanese Model
Success Debated, Celebrated and Disputed

 
 
Japan and the Development of Pacific Asia
Trade, Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in the Project of Comprehensive Security

 
 
Japan, Pacific Asia and the Tripolar Global System
The Regional Context of Contemporary Political-Cultural Projects

 
 
Contemporary Japan
Crisis, Disputed Understandings and Readjustment

 

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