Syllabus - JAPAN POLITICS AND FOREIGN RELATIONS (46529)

Required Reading:
Leheny, David. 2011. "Four Cultures of Japanese Politics," in Victoria Bestor, Theodore Bestor and Akiko Yamagata (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society. (Wilshire: Routlede), pp. 29-41.
Caprio, E. Mark and Sugita, Yoneyuki. 2007. “Introduction: the U.S. Occupation of Japan—Innovation, Continuity, and Compromise,” in Mark Caprio and Yoneyuki Sugita (eds.) Democracy in Occupied Japan: The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society. (Oxon: Routledge), pp. 1-25.
Krauss, S. Ellis and Pekkanen, Robert. 2011. The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions. Ithaca: Cornell University Press), pp. 1-28.
Willcock, Hiroko. 2011. “The Political Dissent of a Senior General: Tamogami Toshio’s Nationalist Thought and a History Controversy,” Asian Politics & Policy, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 29-47.
Movie: Yasukuni, 2008, by Li Ying
Johnson, Chalmers. 1995. Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company), pp. 115-140.
Lincoln, J. Edward. 2011. “The Heisei Economy: Puzzles, Problems, Prospects,” The Journal of Japanese Studies, Volume 37, No. 2 (Summer), pp. 351-375.
Movie: Gung Ho, 1986, by Ron Howard
Otmazgin, Nissim. 2011. “A Tail that Wags the Dog? Cultural Industry and Cultural Policy in Japan and South Korea,” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 307-325.
Samuels, Richard J. 2007. “Securing Japan: The Current Discourse,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 125-152.
Stockwin, J. Arthur A. 2008. Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Major Economy, Third Edition, (Cornwall: Blackwell Publishers), chapter 8 (“Parliament and Parliamentary Elections”).
Pempel, T.J. 2010. “Between Pork and Productivity: The Collapse of the Liberal Democratic Party,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 227-254.
Scheiner, Ethan. 2006. Democracy Without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State (New York: Cambridge University Press), chapter 2 (“Opposition Failure in Japan: Background and Explanations”)
Feldman, Ofer. 2000. The Japanese Political Personality. (Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press LTD), chapter 2 (“The Diet Member: Political Activity and Culture”).
Movie: How to Get Votes in Japan, 2008, by Axel Klein
Kabashima, Ikuo and Steel, Gill. 2010. Changing Politics in Japan. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), pp. 61-85 ("Changing Media, Changing Politics")
Okano, Kaori and Tsuchiya, Motonori. 1999. Education in Contemporary Japan: Inequality and Diversity. (Singapore: Cambridge University Press), pp. 30-51 (“Development of Modern Schooling”).
Sabina, Fruhstuck and Ben Ari, Eyal, 2002. “’Now We Show It All!’ Normalization and the Management of Violence in Japan’s Armed Forces,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 1-39.
Katzenstein, J. Peter. 1996. Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), chapter 4 (“The Police and Internal Security”).
Movie: Minbō no Onna, 1992, by Itami Jūzō
Lambert, A. Priscilla, 2007. “The Political Economy of Postwar Family Policy in Japan: Economic Imperatives and Electoral Incentives,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Vo. 33, No. 1, pp. 1- 28.
Shipper, Apichai. 2008. Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and its Impact on Japanese Democracy. (Ithaca: Cornell University press), chapter 2 (“Controlling Foreigners: Japan’s Foreign Worker Policy”).
Sugimoto, Yoshio. 2003. An Introduction to Japanese Society. (New York: Cambridge University Press), chapter 9 (“Popular Culture and Everyday Life”).
Hoshiro, Hiroyuki. 2009. “Co-Prosperity Sphere Again? United States Foreign Policy and Japan’s ‘First’ Regionalism in the 1950s,” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 82, No. 3.
Berger, U. Thomas. 2007. “The Politics of Memory in Japanese Foreign Relations,” in Berger, U. Thomas, Mochizuki, M. Mike, and Tsuchiyama, Jitsuo (eds.) Japan in International Politics: The Foreign Politics of an Adaptive State. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner), pp. 179-211
Christopher W. Hughes and Akiko Fukushima, 2004. “US-Japan Security Relations – Toward Bilateralism Plus?” in Ellis S. Krauss and TJ Pempel (eds.), Beyond Bilateralism- US-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific (Stanford: Stanford University Press)
Linus Hagström and Björn Jerdén. 2010. “Understanding Fluctuations in Sino-Japanese Relations: To Politicize or to De-politicize the China Issue in the Japanese Diet.” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 83, No. 4.
Otmazgin, Nissim. 2008. “Contesting Soft Power: Japanese Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia,” International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 73-101.