Abstract This article analyzes Japan’s labor market reform in response to its protracted recession, focusing on the institutional configuration of policymaking. It argues that although…
Country or Region: Japan
Abstract Japan’s new thinking on regionalism is a means of soft balancing that counters a rising Chinese influence. A “hard” balancing strategy through an alliance…
Abstract The new government led by President Park Geun-hye faced challenges that the previous government had largely failed to address: rising income disparity, stagnant growth,…
Abstract In the past decade, the Japanese government has revamped its budget institutions twice. This paper examines how these changes have changed the configuration of…
Abstract This article describes the ups and downs and complexities of Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s “Abenomics” and “Abegeopolitics,” political approaches designed to revitalize Japan’s…
Abstract Party systems in East Asia are characterized by a wide variety of party types, as formally institutionalized parties coexist next to informally and weakly…
Abstract Against China’s attempts at cultivating multilateral forums to augment and institutionalize its influence in Central, Northeast, and Southeast Asia, Japan’s major foreign policy challenge…
Abstract Interactions between China and Japan in multilateral “ASEAN plus dialogue partners” forums––the economic groupings ASEAN Plus Three and East Asia Summit, and the security…
Abstract German sociologist Ulrich Beck writes that Japan has become part of the ‘World Risk Society’ as a result of the 2011 nuclear accident in…
Abstract The dispute over ownership of islands, maritime boundaries, jurisdiction, perhaps as much as 100 billion barrels of oil equivalent, and other nonliving and living…
Abstract In this analysis of the Senkaku/Diaoyu, including the US role, I employ the framework of Western theories of international relations (IR). The analysis turns…
Abstract How a nation fights a war, and loses it, then forms an understanding of historical memory is a matter of great complexity. This article…
Abstract Investigations of the Fukushima nuclear power accident sequence revealed the man-made character of the catastrophe and its roots in regulatory capture effected by a…
Abstract Asia is narrated in Japanese foreign policy pronouncements as an opportunity as well as a threat. Despite the purported transformation from militarism to pacifism…
Abstract Since 1945, the United States (US) has served as a focal point of both Left-wing and Right-wing Japanese nationalism. Both sides argued that the…
