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The State of the Japanese State : Contested Identity, Direction and Role / Gavan McCormack.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Renaissance Books Asia Pacific SeriesPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781898823728
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.9520905 23
LOC classification:
  • DS891 .M33 2018eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Improbable Package -- Chapter 2: The Client State -- Chapter 3: The Client State’s Client State -- Chapter 4: Okinawa – State Violence and Civic Resistance -- Table: Japan vs Okinawa, 1995–2018 -- Chapter 5: Around the East [China] Sea -- Chapter 6: The Construction State -- Chapter 7: The Constitutional State -- Chapter 8: The Rampant State -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Afterword -- Index
Summary: In this his latest work, Gavan McCormack argues that Abe Shinzo’s efforts to re-engineer the Japanese state may fail, but his radicalism continues to shake the country and will have consequences not easy now to predict. The significance of this book will be widely recognized, particularly by those researching contemporary world politics, international relations and the history of modern Japan. McCormack here revisits and reassesses his previous formulations of Japan as construction state (doken kokka), client state (zokkoku), constitutional pacifist state, and colonial state (especially in its relationship to Okinawa). He adds a further chapter on what he calls the ‘rampant state’, that outlines the increasingly authoritarian or ikkyo (one strong) turn of the Abe government in the fifth year of its second term. And he critically addresses the Abe agenda for constitutional revision.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Improbable Package -- Chapter 2: The Client State -- Chapter 3: The Client State’s Client State -- Chapter 4: Okinawa – State Violence and Civic Resistance -- Table: Japan vs Okinawa, 1995–2018 -- Chapter 5: Around the East [China] Sea -- Chapter 6: The Construction State -- Chapter 7: The Constitutional State -- Chapter 8: The Rampant State -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Afterword -- Index

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In this his latest work, Gavan McCormack argues that Abe Shinzo’s efforts to re-engineer the Japanese state may fail, but his radicalism continues to shake the country and will have consequences not easy now to predict. The significance of this book will be widely recognized, particularly by those researching contemporary world politics, international relations and the history of modern Japan. McCormack here revisits and reassesses his previous formulations of Japan as construction state (doken kokka), client state (zokkoku), constitutional pacifist state, and colonial state (especially in its relationship to Okinawa). He adds a further chapter on what he calls the ‘rampant state’, that outlines the increasingly authoritarian or ikkyo (one strong) turn of the Abe government in the fifth year of its second term. And he critically addresses the Abe agenda for constitutional revision.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)