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"Provincializing Empire explores the global history of Japanese expansion through a regional lens. It rethinks the nation-centered geography and chronology of empire by uncovering the pivotal role of expeditionary merchants from Omi (present-day Shiga Prefecture) and their modern successors. Tracing their lives from the early modern era, and writing them into the global histories of empire, diaspora, and capitalism, Jun Uchida offers an innovative analysis of expansion through a story previously untold: how the nation's provincials built on their traditions to create a transpacific diaspora that stretched from Seoul to Vancouver, while helping shape the modern world of transoceanic exchange"-- Provided by publisher.

Japan --- Commerce

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Japan's China Policy understands Japan's foreign policy in terms of power - one of the most central concepts of political analysis. It contributes a fresh understanding to the subject by developing relational power as an analytical framework and by applying it to significant issues in Japan's China policy: the negotiations for a bilateral investment protection treaty and the disputed Pinnacle (Senkaku/Diaoyu) Islands. Hagström demonstrates that Japan exerted power over China in such divergent empirical settings for the most part by using civilian instruments positively, defensively and through non-action. Given that Japan's foreign policy is often portrayed rather enigmatically in terms of power, the unique contribution of Japan's China Policy is to demonstrate how to analyze power aspects of Japan's foreign policy in a more coherent fashion. This revealing approach to Japan's foreign policy will be of huge interest to anyone studying Japanese politics, foreign policy or international relations.

Japan --- Foreign relations

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Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989 raises the crucial question of whether Japan's political leadership which is still preoccupied with finding a new political constellation and with overcoming a deep economic crisis is able to handle such a complex policy in the face of an increasingly assertive China and a US alliance partner with strong swings between engaging and containing China's power. This study of the highly topical bilateral relationship will be of great interest to students and researchers in Japanese and Chinese Studies, Politics, International Relations and Security Studies.

National security. --- Japan --- Relations

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This is a new analysis of recent changes in important Japanese institutions. It addresses the origin, development, and recent adaptation of core institutions, including financial institutions, corporate governance, lifetime employment, and the amakudari system. After four decades of rapid economic growth in Japan, the 1990s saw the country enter a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Policy reforms were initially half-hearted, and businesses were slow to restructure as the global economy changed. The lagging economy has been impervious to aggressive fiscal stimulus measures and has been plagued by ongoing price deflation for years. Japan's struggle has called into question the ability of the country's economic institutions, originally designed to support factor accumulation and rapid development, to adapt to the new economic environment of the twenty-first century. This book discusses both historical and international comparisons including Meiji Japan, and recent economic and financial reforms in Korea, Scandinavia, Switzerland, and New Zealand, placing the current institutional changes in perspective. The contributors argue that, contrary to conventional wisdom that Japanese institutions have remained relatively rigid, there has been significant institutional change over the last decade.

Japan --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions.

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Die Begriffe "Fiktion" und "Wirklichkeit" bilden bei verschiedener Formulierung in den Jahren 1850 bis 1890 Dreh- und Angelpunkte des Denkens über das sprachliche Kunstwerk (Literaturtheorie). Die literaturtheoretischen Fragen sind: Welches Verhältnis soll, muss oder darf die sprachliche Schöpfung (Fiktion) zur außersprachlichen Schöpfung (Wirklichkeit) haben? Die Frage, auf welche die vorliegende Arbeit zu antworten versucht ist: Welchen Wandel vollziehen theoretische Vorstellungen von sprachlicher Kunst und deren Verhältnis zur Wirklichkeit während der 40 Jahre, in der Japan sich zur Öffnung gegenüber dem Ausland gezwungen sieht und den wohl drastischsten gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Wandel in seiner Geschichte erlebt? Zur Debatte steht auf wissenschaftstheoretischer Ebene bei dieser Fragestellung auch die Tauglichkeit literaturtheoretischer Begriffe zur Beschreibung ideengeschichtlicher Prozesse - Literatur und das Denken über sie als »Denken in Bildern« (Belinskij).

Japanese fiction --- History and criticism. --- Japan --- History