Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they…

Re-Inventing Japan is a major effort to rethink the contours of Japanese history, culture, and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, this book offers a…

By exploring the little-known world of informal grassroots political action in Japan, Tessa Morris-Suzuki sheds light on a range of fascinating twentieth-and twenty-first-century social experiments with particular relevance in the…

A collection of critical Marxian analyses by Japanese economists assessing aspects of the Japanese economy. Considered to be an important contribution to Japanese economic literature, these opinions on Japanese capitalism…

East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two…