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Rethinking Japan : the politics of contested nationalism /

This study provides a broad examination of the current Shinzō Abe government in Japan. It analyzes various controversial domestic and foreign policies and argues that its election in 2012 inaugurated a new political phase characterized by opposition weakness and ruling-party unity around a national...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Stockwin, J. A. A. (James Arthur Ainscow) (Autor), Ampiah, Kweku (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
Colección:New studies in modern Japan
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Peace, democracy and economic growth : political economy under the postwar dispensation
  • The system begins to change : from the 1990s to 2009
  • The opposition in power : September 2009 to December 2012
  • Abe takes charge : from December 2012
  • Abenomics
  • Revising and reinterpreting the 1947 constitution
  • The designated secrets law and freedom of speech
  • Historical revisionism, national identity, and war apology
  • Legislating for collective defense by fiat : the realist view of Japan as a normal country
  • Japan and its neighbors : China, Russia and the two Koreas
  • Japan and the wider world : public diplomacy, economic relations and overseas development aid
  • Japan : reactionary state?