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Understanding Modern Japan

A Political Economy of Development, Culture and Global Power
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This work takes the reader from pre-modern times to the development of Japan within the Asia Pacific and the wider global political system, and finally to the current economic crisis in the region. It maps Japan's shift into the modern world within the wider dynamics of political-cultural and geo-economic change in the developing global system and traces Japan's development through its distinctive historical phases. The major issues in the study of modern Japan are explored, and the prospects for an increasingly integrated regional bloc in Pacific Asia are considered. The author also analyzes the links between contemporary Japan and Pacific Asia around trade, aid and investment, and he considers the implications for future political and policy analysis of Japan's rise to regional and global power.
P W Preston is Reader in Political Sociology in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. His recent publications include Political/Cultural Identity (1997) and Pacific Asia in the Global System (1998).
The Historical Development Experience of Japan Japan and the Shift to the Modern World Tokugawa, Meiji and the Pursuit of the Project of Modernity Locating Japan within the Modern World Success, Instability and Competing Political-Cultural Projects Imperial Japan Expansion and the Project of Empire in Asia Japan in the Contemporary World The Political-Cultural Project of Economic Nationalism The Japanese Model Success Debated, Celebrated and Disputed Japan and the Development of Pacific Asia Trade, Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in the Project of Comprehensive Security Japan, Pacific Asia and the Tripolar Global System The Regional Context of Contemporary Political-Cultural Projects Contemporary Japan Crisis, Disputed Understandings and Readjustment
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