Thursday 8 May 2003
6:00pm – 8:00pm
JAPAN: Still Building on Science and Technology
13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
The politics of Japanare less widely reported than the Japanese economy. Most people are aware of the economic ‘miracle’ following the Second World War, whereby Japan became the second largest economy in the world after the United States, and the economic stagnation of the early 1990s is also well known. But it is difficult to make sense of these phenomena without a knowledge of the political system and the ways in which it works in practice.
Containing in-depth introductory essays and nearly 300 A–Z entries, the Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan remedies this imbalance and answers the need for an accessible work of reference bringing together information and authoritative analysis on all aspects of the politics of Japan and the Japanese political system.
About the contributors
JAA Stockwin
JAA Stockwin is Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford, Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies. Among his many publications he is the author of The Japanese Socialist Party and Neutralism (1968) and Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Major Economy (1999). He is the co-author of Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan (1988) and the translator of Junji Banno’sThe Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System (1992) and is the general editor of the Routledge/Nissan Institute Japanese Studies Series.