Japan Viewed from Interdisciplinary Perspectives: History and Prospects - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498500226 ISBN 13 : 9781498500227

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2015

Synopsis

The growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Asia-Pacific region greatly surpasses the world average. When the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is better realized, then the world's largest free trade zone will be firmly established. It seems that this region has a very rosy outlook indeed; however, this region also faces a large number of serious problems such as: atomic energy in Japan, conflicts about East Asian regional integration, the decline of the Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA), and the TPP's possible impact on the Japanese universal health insurance system. We now face a possible Sino-Japanese military conflict concerning the Senkaku Islands (or Diaoyutai Islands). In short, the Asia-Pacific region has both a rosy future and the potential influence from unstable and dangerous elements at work within the region at present. The main purpose of this book is to analyze historical development, whilst looking at the contemporary situation of Japan from interdisciplinary perspectives. This book asks three major questions: (1) Is this really globalization? (2) What are Japan's relations with other Asian countries? (3) Do U.S.-Japan relations still matter?
Fourteen leading scholars in their fields answer these questions from interdisciplinary perspectives.

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À propos des auteurs

Yoneyuki Sugita is professor of history at Osaka University. He has been writing on US-Japan relations, Japanese foreign and security policies, and Japanese health insurance systems.

Nissim Otmazgin is senior lecturer of modern Japanese history and politics at the Department of Asian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Mayako Shimamoto is currently an independent scholar. Her current interests cover US atomic diplomacy in the early Cold War, postwar nuclear energy issues in US-Japan relations, and Japan's present-day nuclear policy. She continues to do research on these subjects, while giving talks at universities either in Japan or abroad.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498500226
• ISBN 13: 9781498500227
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 314
• Éditeur: Sugita Yoneyuki
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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