The state of the Japanese state : contested identity, direction and role
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The state of the Japanese state : contested identity, direction and role
(Renaissance Books Asia Pacific series, v. 4)
Renaissance Books, 2018
- : hardback
Available at 9 libraries
  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
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this his latest work, Gavan McCormack argues that Abe Shinzo's efforts to re-engineer the Japanese state may fail, but his radicalism continues to shake the country and will have consequences not easy now to predict. The significance of this book will be widely recognized, particularly by those researching contemporary world politics, international relations and the history of modern Japan. McCormack here revisits and reassesses his previous formulations of Japan as construction state (doken kokka), client state (zokkoku), constitutional pacifist state, and colonial state (especially in its relationship to Okinawa). He adds a further chapter on what he calls the 'rampant state', that outlines the increasingly authoritarian or ikkyo (one strong) turn of the Abe government in the fifth year of its second term. And he critically addresses the Abe agenda for constitutional revision.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 : The Improbable Package
The Improbable Package - Imperial, Pacifist, Democratic
Peace, Asia, and Article 9
San Francisco and "Normalization"
Abe 1: 1993-2007
Abe 2: 2012-2016
Abe 3: 2017-2018
Chapter 2 : The Client State
Poodle Powers
Servility
Challenging Clientelism, 2005-2010
Positive Pacifism
Japan the Beautiful
Chapter 3: The Client State's Client State
Japan in the East [China] Sea
Inclusion/Exclusion, and Deceit
An "Okinawan Way"
"Kempakusho" and "All Okinawa"
The Enigmatic Governor
Court Proceedings
* The Experts Report, 2015
* Wakai/Conciliation, 2016
* Speed Trial, 2016
* State of Play, 2017-2018
Chapter 4: Okinawa - State Violence and Civic Resistance
Public Enemy Number One
Civil Suits
Security
Struggle without End
Table : Japan vs Okinawa, 1995-2018
Chapter 5: Around the East [China] Sea
China
North Korea
* Rogue Regime
* North Korea "as it is"
* On Global Tables
* Rehearsing Invasion
* Sanctions and Law
Russia and the Putin Plan
South-Western Frontier Islands - Yonaguni, Miyako, and Ishigaki
Mage Island
Senkaku/Diaoyu
Communities
Chapter 6 : The Construction State
Resilience
Sustainability
Contents vii
The Nuclear State
The Ever Faster State
War and Gambling
Chapter 7 : The Constitutional State
Popular Sovereignty and Symbolic Emperor
Revision Agendas
* I: Cold War era
* II: LDP, 2012
* III: Abe, 2014-2017
* Emperor vs. Prime Minister
* Unresolved Contradictions
Chapter 8 : The Rampant State
Ikkyo - "One Strong"
Moritomo Gakuen
Kake Gakuen Veterinary College
Conspiracy
Secrets
Abe Triumphant, October 2017
Chapter 9 : Conclusion
Afterword
Index
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