The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics

• Offers the most up-to-date views on the state of the field
• Provides accessible overviews of new fields of research
• Chapters are written by internationally acknowledged specialists

Table of Contents

1. Japanese Politics: An Introduction
Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M. Pekkanen
Part I: Domestic Political Actors and Institutions
2. The Japanese Constitution
Kenneth Mori McElwain
3. Japanese Electoral Systems since 1947
Steven R. Reed
4. The Role of the Prime Minister in Japan
Aurelia George Mulgan
5. The Japanese Diet: Parliamentary Groups and Lawmaking
Mikitaka Masuyama
6. The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Bureaucracy
Steven K. Vogel
7. The Japanese Judiciary
J. Mark Ramseyer
8. Local Government in Japan
Ken Victor Leonard Hijino
Part II: Political Parties and Coalitions
9. Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party: Changes in Party Organization under Shinzo Abe
Kuniaki Nemoto
10. The Era of Coalition Government in Japan: The Institutional Logic of Surplus Majorities and Strange Bedfellows
Michael F. Thies
11. Komeito: The Party and Its Place in Japanese Politics
Axel Klein and Levi McLaughlin
12. The Political Opposition in Japan
Ethan Scheiner and Michael F. Thies
Part III: Policymaking and the Public
13. The Policymaking Process in Japan

Tomohito Shinoda
14. The Effect of Changing Political Contexts on Public Opinion in Japan, 1945-2020
Yukio Maeda
15. Gender and Politics in Japan
Gill Steel and Sherry Martin
16. Civil Society in Japan
Akihiro Ogawa
17. Populism in Japan
Robert A. Fahey, Airo Hino, and Robert J. Pekkanen
Part IV: Political Economy and Social Policy
18. METI’s Miraculous Comeback and the Uncertain Future of Japanese Industrial Policy
Gregory W. Noble
19. Energy Policy in Japan: Revisiting Radical Incrementalism
Llewelyn Hughes
20. Social Welfare Policy in Japan
Margarita Estévez-Abe
21. The Farm Lobby and Agricultural Policy in Japan
Patricia L. MacLachlan and Kay Shimizu
22. The Bank of Japan: Central Bank Independence and the Politicization of Monetary Policy
Gene Park
23. Social Inequality in Japan
David Chiavacci
24. Immigration and Democracy in Japan
Michael Strausz
Part V: International Relations Frameworks
25. Japan’s Grand Strategy for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
Narushige Michishita
26. Japan and International Organizations
Phillip Y. Lipscy and Nobuhiko Tamaki
27. International Status and Japan
David Leheny
Part VI: International Political Economy
28. Japanese Trade Policy
Christina L. Davis
29. Finance and Japan
Saori N. Katada and Yoichi Nemoto
30. Foreign Direct Investment in Japan: Growth, Trends, and Policy Efforts
Mark Manger
31. Japan and the Environment
Kim Reimann
32. Japan and Economic Regionalism in Asia
Hidetaka Yoshimatsu
33. Linkages between Security and Economics in Japan
Keisuke Iida
Part VII: International Security
34. Remilitarization in Japan
Christopher W. Hughes
35. Global and Regional Security Multilateralism in Japan’s Foreign Policy
Paul Midford
36. Japan and Nuclear Nonproliferation
Michael Mochizuki
37. Japanese Naval Power
Alessio Patalano
38. Neoclassical Realism in Japan’s Space Security
Saadia M. Pekkanen
39. Cybersecurity in Japan
Benjamin Bartlett
Part VIII: Foreign Relations
40. Japan-US Relations: The Most Important Bilateral Relationship in the World
Ellis S. Krauss
41. Japan-China Relations: Politics of Great Powers and Great Power Politics
Ming Wan
42. The Japan-South Korea Rift: ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’ Pressures on Relations
Alexandra Sakaki
43. The Evolution of Japan-ASEAN Relations: Core Moves for Japan’s Initiatives in Asian Regionalism
Takashi Terada
44. Japan-India Relations: From Weak Links to Stronger Ties
Purnendra Jain
45. Japan-EU Relations
Marie Söderberg
46. Japan-Russia Relations
Alexander Bukh