The vitality of Japan : sources of national strength and weakness / edited by Armand Clesse ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clesse, Armand.

Institute for European and International Studies, Luxembourg.

Series:

St. Antony's series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Politics and government--1989---Congresses.

Japan.

Politics and government.

Japan--Foreign economic relations--Congresses.

International economic relations.

Japan--Relations--Congresses.

Relations.

Japan--Social conditions--1945---Congresses.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 414 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Summary:

In this volume the reader will find interesting forms of analysis on Japan just as it was embarking on potentially the most important changes in its political system since 1955, when the Liberal Democratic Party was created through a merger of Japan's two dominant conservative parties of that era. With the old Cold War verities no longer in place, new challenges arose for the Japanese government and Japanese corporations. The challenges of the 1990s include a protracted domestic economic downturn, and the need to begin redefining Japan's international profile in the face of an increasingly powerful China, an ever more desperate North Korea, and shifts in the shared responsibility built into the US-Japan security treaty.

Notes:

"In association with Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies and St. Antony's College, Oxford."

"This volume grew out of a conference held in Tokyo in 1992 ... sponsored by Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies in association with the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)"--Intro.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

033364820X

031217313X

OCLC:

36126387