TY - BOOK AU - McCormack,Gavan TI - The State of the Japanese State: Contested Identity, Direction and Role T2 - Renaissance Books Asia Pacific Series SN - 9781898823728 AV - DS891 .M33 2018eb U1 - 320.9520905 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Japan-Foreign relations-20th century KW - Japan-Foreign relations-21st century KW - Japan-Foreign relations-United States KW - Japan-Politics and government-1989- KW - United States-Foreign relations-Japan KW - Asian Studies KW - East Asia and North East Asia KW - Japan KW - Politics and Government KW - Politics and government KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh KW - china KW - corruption KW - diplomacy KW - north korea KW - okinawa KW - russia KW - vassalage to usa N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781898823728?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781898823728 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781898823728/original ER -