Japan : beyond the end of history
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Japan : beyond the end of history
(The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series)
Routledge, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-228) and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780415052436
Description
"Japan: Beyond the End of History" assesses Japan's significance, in fact and in theory, for the Western traditions of political philosophy and practice, from Adam Smith and Hegel to the French deconstructionists and today's "end of history" theorists. The issues covered range from the industrial policy of the founders of the Meiji state to the painful recession of the early 1990s. Francis Fukuyama has famously argued that, with the collapse of Soviet communism, the only viable system for the future is liberal-democratic capitalism in the Anglo-American mould. This would suggest that East Asian mercantilism, state-led and often authoritarian, is doomed. This considers an alternative theory: that Japanese-style nationalist development offers a far greater challenge to Western theory and values than the fallen systems of Eastern Europe ever represented.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780415096621
Description
In this analysis of Japan's policy-making, David Williams places his argument within the debates about Japanese political economy in the United States and Britain, debates previously polarised between `market' and `ministry' views. He presents Japanese-style nationalist development as a serious challenge to Western values and theory.
Table of Contents
- Introduction 1 Policymaking in an economic superpower 2 Understanding the new Japan: Some ideological pointers PART I THE POLITICS Policymakers and the Japanese political system 3 Why the centre holds 4 Gentlemen and players in the policy contest
- The Japanese state at work 5 Four policy lessons from the 1980s 6 The Ministry of Finance and the Japanese miracle 7 Japanese industrial policy: The great debate 8 Politics and policies since the bubble PART II THE PHILOSOPHY The foundations of the Japanese approach 9 A Japanese lesson: Language and nationalism 10 Japan, Germany and the alternative tradition in modern public policy 11 Making history: Japan's grand narrative and the policymaker
- Theories and controversies 12 The revolutionary 1980s and the rise of Japanese public policy studies 13 Yellow Athena: The Japanese model and 'The End of History' 14 Japanese public policy as foreign policy: A post-war revolution? 15 Unblinking politics: McCarthyism, grand theory and wild Empiricism
- Coda, 16 The receding roar: Last thoughts on the Japanese miracle
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