Collected Writings of J. A. A. Stockwin: Part 1

by Stockwin,J.A.A.

• ISBN13: 9781903350157
• ISBN10: 1903350158
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The volume opens with a detailed autobiographical sketch of the author's original 'meeting with Japan', which began in 1961after taking up a post at ANU, Canberra (the result of a successful response to an advert in the Manchester Guardian). After twenty-one years in Australia, Arthur Stockwin moved back to the UK to take the chair of the then recently-established Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies. He was to be in post there also for twenty one years, his retirement coinciding with publication of his Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan(Routledge, 2003).

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Japanese Elections	p. 17
Electing the Kyoto Governor: Travail of the Opposition	p. 19
Shifting Alignments in Japanese Party Politics: the April 1974 Election for Governor of Kyoto Prefecture	p. 23
Democracy and Elections: Japan	p. 35
Electoral Pressures for Change: the Effect of Political Reform	p. 52
Japan's General Elections of June 2000: Revolution or Ripple?	p. 71
Japanese Political Parties and Political Activism	p. 87
'Positive Neutrality'-The Foreign Policy of the Japanese Socialist Party	p. 89
The Japan Communist Party in the Sino-Soviet Dispute-From Neutrality to Alignment?	p. 97
The Japanese Socialist Party Under New Leadership	p. 109
The Communist Party of Japan	p. 122
Japan	p. 136
Political Parties in Postwar Japan	p. 140
The Japanese Opposition: Political Irrelevance or Wave of the Future?	p. 150
The Ultra-Right Wing in Japanese Politics	p. 164
The Rights and Lefts of Japanese Politics	p. 175
Japan: the Leader-Follower Relationship in Parties	p. 185
Political Parties and Political Opposition	p. 202
Politics, Power and Parties in Japan	p. 220
Challenge and Response, or Challenge and Failure to Respond?: the Nihon Shakaitō Under Doi Takako	p. 236
Japan's Opposition Parties and the Prospects for Political Change	p. 247
From Jsp to Sdpj: the New Wave Society and the 'New' Nihon Shakaitō	p. 256
On Trying to Move Mountains: the Political Career of Doi Takako	p. 270
The Japanese Political System and Political System Reform	p. 285
Perceiving Japanese Politics	p. 287
Is Japan a Post-Marxist Society?	p. 295
Alternative Politics for Japan?	p. 308
Is Japan Becoming Harder to Govern?	p. 317
Understanding Japanese Politics	p. 336
Japan's Political Crisis of 1980	p. 347
Notes	p. 362
Japanese Politics: New Directions or the Story as Before?	p. 363
The Occupation: Continuity or Change?	p. 374
Japan as a Political Model?	p. 385
-Dynamic and Immobilist Aspects of Japanese Politics-Parties, Politicians and the Political System-Conclusions	p. 396
New Directions in Japanese Politics	p. 441
The Need for Reform in Japanese Politics	p. 449
Deciphering Japanese Politics	p. 466
Converging or Diverging? the Politics of Japan and Britain	p. 478
Do Political Parties Matter? Reflections on Japan and Europe	p. 493
Political Factionalism	p. 507
Faction and Ideology in Postwar Japanese Socialism	p. 509
A Comparison of Political Factionalism in Japan and India	p. 520
Factionalism in Japanese Political Parties	p. 535
Index	p. 546
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