Japan and the world : essays on Japanese history and politics in honour of Ishida Takeshi

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 World Without Walls: Kuwagata Keisai’s Panoramic Vision of Japan....Pages 3-19 Anglo-American Influences on Nishida Kitarō....Pages 20-41 Front Matter....Pages 43-43 A Non-traditional View of Japanese Modernisation....Pages 45-53 Women in the Silk-reeling Industry in Nineteenth-century Japan....Pages 54-77 Tenkō and Thought Control....Pages 78-94 The 1960s’ Japanese Student Movement in Retrospect....Pages 95-115 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 Electoral Laws and the Japanese Party System....Pages 119-143 The Institutionalisation of Policy Consultation in Japan: Public Advisory Bodies....Pages 144-157 Japanese Politics: Good or Bad?....Pages 158-175 The Impact of Domestic Politics on Japan’s Foreign Policy....Pages 176-193 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Japanese Policy-making on Issues of North—South Relations....Pages 197-219 The Japanese Management System in Europe: Japanese Subsidiaries in the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 220-231 Japan as a Model for Economic Development: The Example of Singapore....Pages 232-244 Conclusion....Pages 245-251 Back Matter....Pages 252-294 This volume focuses on Japan over the last one hundred years, with special emphasis on the twentieth century and the contemporary period. Chapters on cultural, intellectual and economic history, domestic politics and foreign relations trace the complex and multi-faceted process through which Japan has been transformed from an isolated agricultural society to an economic world power and model for the other developing nations. The authors demonstrate the adaptibility of Japan's native tradition in its encounter with the world beyond its own shores, and show how many aspects of traditional Japanese culture and society have been transformed while others have survived, giving contemporary Japan that distinctive flavour of an old insular culture which continues to delight and baffle foreign and native scholars alike