Bibliography

JAPANESE POLITICS BIBLIOGRAPHY

Maintained by: Leonard Schoppa (suggestions for additional entries welcome)
Most Recent Update: November 28, 2011

Periodicals

Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (online journal with commentary on current topics in Japanese politics)
Nikkei Weekly (weekly newspaper)
Look Japan (current events in Japan)
Oriental Economist Report (monthly newsletter that is very good on economic issues)
Far Eastern Economic Review (newsmagazine which covers the economics and politics of Asia)
Pacific Affairs (scholarly journal on politics of Asia)
Journal of Japanese Studies (scholarly journal on Japanese politics, society, history, and literature)
Japan Forum (scholarly journal on Japanese politics, society, and history)
Social Science Japan Journal (scholarly journal of Japanese politics, society, and economics)
Japanese Journal of Political Science (scholarly journal on politics in Japan and other nations)
Journal of Asian Studies (scholarly journal of Asian politics, society, history, and literature)
Asian Survey (more of a general interest journal, mostly on current events in Asia)
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese-language newspaper)
Nikkei Shimbun (Japanese-language newspaper)

Also try Lexis-Nexis. It includes the Daily Yomiuri among the “major papers” included in its database.

Advisory Councils in Japanese Politics

Frank V. Schwartz, Advice and Consent: The Politics of Consultation in Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Frank Schwartz, "Of Fairy Cloaks and Familiar Talks: The Politics of Consultation," in Gary D. Allinson and Yasunori Sone, eds., Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).

Leonard Schoppa, Education Reform in Japan (London: Routledge, 1991)--includes a discussion of several education-related advsiory councils and their roles in the policy process.

Kenji Hayao, The Japanese Prime Minister and Public Policy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993)--includes a discussion of Prime Minister Nakasone's use of advisory councils to push his policy priorities.

Ehud Harari, "The Institutionalization of Policy Consultation in Japan: Public Advisory Bodies," in Gail Lee Bernstein and Haruhiro Fukui, eds., Japan and the World (London: Macmillan, 1988), pp. 144-57.

Ehud Harari, "Japanese Politics of Advice in Comparative Perspective," Public Policy 12:4 (Fall 1974), pp. 542-6.

T.J. Pempel, "The Bureaucratization of Policymaking in Postwar Japan," American Journal of Political Science 18:4 (November 1974), pp. 656-63.

Agricultural Policy in Japan

Aurelia George, Japan’s Agricultural Policy Regime (London: Routledge, 2006).

Aurelia George, Japan’s Interventionist State: The Role of the MAFF (London: Routledge, 2005).

Aurelia George, The Politics of Agriculture in Japan (London: Routledge, 2000).

Christina Davis, Food Fights Over Free Trade (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003)--half the book is about Japan's slow liberalization of its farm trade despite political barriers to agricultural market opening.

Frank V. Schwartz, Advice and Consent: The Politics of Consultation in Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)—one chapter is about the politics of the advisory council that for many years set the price of rice for Japan’s farmers.

Michael Donnelly, "Setting the Price of Rice: A Study in Political Decisionmaking," in T.J. Pempel, ed., Policymaking in Contemporary Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977): 143-200.

Kent Calder. Crisis and Compensation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988)--chapter on agricultural policy.

Yukie Yoshikawa, “Can Japanese Agriculture Overcome Dependence and Decline?” Asia-Pacific Journal July 14, 2010—online at http://theglobalrealm.com/2010/07/14/can-japanese-agriculture-overcome-dependence-and-decline/.

Amakudari

Richard A. Colignon and Chikako Usui, Amakudari: The Hidden Fabric of Japan's Economy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).

Kent Calder, "Elites in an Equalizing Role: Ex-Bureaucrats as Coordinators and Intermediaries in the Japanese Government-Business Relationship," Comparative Politics 21:4 (1989), pp. 379-403.

Ulrike Schaede, "The `Old Boy' Network and Government Business Relationships in Japan, Journal of Japanese Studies 21:2 (Summer 1995), pp. 293-317.

Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982), Chapter 2.

Antitrust Policy in Japan

Ulrike Schaede, Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Association, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

John O. Haley, Antitrust in Germany and Japan: The First Half-Century, 1947-1998 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001).

Michael L. Beeman, Public Policy and Economic Competition in Japan: Change and Continuity in Antimonopoly Policy, 1973-1995 (London: Routledge, 2002).

Harry First, "Antitrust Enforcement in Japan," Antitrust Law Journal 64:1 (Fall 1995), pp. 137-182.

Mark Tilton, Restrained Trade: Cartels in Japan's Basic Materials Industries (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996)--focuses especially on aluminum, cement, petrochemicals, and steel.

Leonard Schoppa, Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)--chapter 8 covers antitrust policy before and after the Structural Impediments Initiative.

Eleanor M. Hadley, Antitrust in Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970)

Budget Policy in Japan

Hiromitsu Ishi, Making Fiscal Policy in Japan: Economic Effects and Institutional Settings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

David L. Asher and Robert H. Dugger, "Could Japan's Financial Mount Fuji Blow its Top?" MIT Japan Program Working Paper (May 15, 2000).

Takaaki Suzuki, Japan's Budget Politics: Balancing Domestic and International Interests (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000).

John C. Campbell, Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977).

Business Practices and Japan's Political Economy

Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer, The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).

Michael Witt, Changing Japanese Capitalism: Societal Coordination and Institutional Adjustment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Steven Vogel, Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).

Leonard Schoppa, Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).

Curtis J. Milhaupt and Mark D. West, Economic Organizations and Corporate Governance in Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Ronald Dore, Stock Market Capitalism / Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany Versus the Anglo-Saxons (Oxford: Oxfordd University Press, 2000).

Jennifer A. Amyx, Japan's Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).

W. Carl Kester, “American and Japanese Corporate Governance: Convergence to Best Practice?," In Suzanne Berger and Ronald Dore, eds. National Diversity and Global Capitalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996).

Richard Katz, The Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003).

Ulrike Schaede and William Grimes, Japan's Managed Globalization: Adapting to the Twenty-First Century (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002).

Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore, eds., The Japanese Firm: Sources of Competitive Strength (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).

Kenichi Miyashita and David W. Russell, Keiretsu: Inside the Hidden Japanese Conglomerates (McGraw-Hill, 1994).

James Abbelgglen and George Stalk, Jr., Kaisha (New York: Basic Books, 1985).

Rodney Clark, The Japanese Company (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979).

Ronald Dore, British Factory--Japanese Factory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973).

Various Chapters in Daniel Okimoto and Thomas Rohlen, eds., Inside the Japanese System (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988).

Michael Gerlach, "Twilight of the Keiretsu? A Critical Assessment," Journal of Japanese Studies 18:1 (Winter 1992), 79-118.

Michael Gerlach, Alliance Capitalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).

Thomas Rohlen, For Harmony and Strength (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974).

Consumer Movement in Japan

Patricia L. Maclachlan, Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).

Robin LeBlanc, Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).

Sheldon Garon, Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).

Steven K. Vogel, “When Interests Are Not Preferences: The Cautionary Tale of Japanese Consumers.” Comparative Politics 31:2 (January 1999): 187-207.

Declining Fertility in Japan (Policy Debate Over)

Leonard Schoppa, “Exit, Voice, and Family Policy in Japan: Limited Changes Despite Broad Recognition of the Declining Fertility Problem,” Journal of European Social Policy 20: 5 (December 2010), pp. 422-432.

Patricia Boling, “Demography, Culture, and Policy: Understanding Japan’s Low Fertility,” Population and Development Review 34:2 (2008), pp. 307-326.

Frances Rosenbluth, ed., The Political Economy of Japan’s Low Fertility Rate (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).

Leonard Schoppa, Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006)—includes several chapters on these demographic trends and the response of the Japanese government and society.

Patricia Boling, “Family Policy in Japan.” Journal of Social Policy 27:2 (1998): 173-90.

Chizuko Ueno, “The Declining Birthrate: Whose Problem?” Review of Population and Social Policy 7 (1998): 103-128.

Naohiro Yashiro, “The Economic Factors for the Declining Birthrate.” Review of Population and Social Policy 7 (1998): 129-144.

Kazue Suzuki, “Women Rebuff Call for More Babies.” Japan Quarterly (January-March 1995): 14-20.

National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Child Related Policies in Japan (on-line publication dated 2003)--on-line at http://www.ipss.go.jp/English/childPJ2003/childPJ2003.htm.

Muriel Jolivet, Japan—The Childless Society? The Crisis of Motherhood (London: Routledge, 1993).

See also the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research website.

Defense Policy in Japan

Kenneth B. Pyle, Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose (Century Foundation Books, 2007).

Andrew Oros, Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity and the Evolution of Security Practice (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008).

Richard Samuels, Securing Japan: Tokyo’s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007).

Christopher Hughes, Japan’s Re-emergence as a ‘Normal’ Military Power (Routledge, 2006).

Tomohito Shinoda, Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan’s Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007).

Tomohito Shinoda, "Koizumi's Top-Down Leadership in the Anti-Terrorism Legislation: The Impact of Political Institutional Changes," SAIS Review 23:1 (Winter-Spring 2003), pp. 19-34.

David Leheny, Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006)—includes a chapter on Japan’s response to 9/11.

Michael J. Green, Japan's Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy Challenges in an Era of Uncertain Power (New York: Palgrave, 2003).

Steven K. Vogel, ed., U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institutions, 2002).

Thomas U. Berger, Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).

Richard J. Samuels, "Rich Nation Strong Army": National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994).

Marshal Zeringue and Daniel Kritenbrink, "Japanese Security Policy in a Changing International Environment," Defense Analysis 10:2 (1994): 113-140.

Kent Calder, Crisis and Compensation (Princeton: Princeton University Press), chapter on defense policy.

Thomas U. Berger, "Norms, Identity, and National Security in Germany and Japan," in Peter Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), pp. 317-356.

Peter Katzenstein, Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996).

Glenn D. Hook, Militarization and Demilitarization in Contemporary Japan (London: Routledge, 1996).

Harrison Holland, Managing Defense: Japan's Dilemma (London: University Press of America, 1988).

Michael W. Chinworth, Inside Japan's Defense: Technology, Economics, and Strategy, (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1992).

Michael Green, Arming Japan: Defense Production, Alliance Politics, and the Post-War Search for Autonomy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).

The Defense Agency (of Japan), White Papers, Annual. See also this link

Democratic Party of Japan

Ethan Scheiner, Democracy Without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Leonard Schoppa, "Neoliberal Economic Policy Preferences of the ‘New Left’: Home-Grown or Anglo-American Import?” in Rikki Kersten and David Williams, eds., The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Essays in Honour of J.A.A. Stockwin, (London: Routledge, 2006)--the article focuses on the formation and evolution of the DPJ and the evolution of the policy positions that party has taken on economic issues (available on-line).

Mari Miura, Kap Yun Lee, and Robert Weiner, “Who Are the DPJ?: Policy Positioning and Recruitment Strategy,” Asian Perspective 29:1 (2005): 49-77.

Ronald J. Hrebenar, Peter Berton, Akira Nakamura, and J. A. A. Stockwin, eds. Japan's New Party System (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000)--includes a chapter on the early years of the Democratic Party of Japan.

Deregulation and Japanese Politics

Steven Vogel, Freer Markets and More Rules (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996)--on financial and telecommunications regulation in Japan, compared to similar reforms in Britain.

Leonard Schoppa, Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006)—includes a chapter on “deregulation” in labor policy and electricity policy.

Lonny E. Carlile and Mark C. Tilton, Is Japan Really Changing Its Ways: Regulatory Reform and the Japanese Economy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998).

Daitaro Kishii, “Historical Features of Japan’s Public Utility Laws and the Limits of ‘Deregulation.’” Social Science Japan Journal 2:1 (1999): 45-63.

Atsushi Kusano, "Deregulation in Japan and the Role of Naiatsu (Domestic Pressure).” Social Science Japan Journal 2:1 (1999): 65-84--this volume of the journal includes several other articles on deregulation in Japan..

Jennifer A. Amyx, Japan's Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).

Richard Katz, The Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003).

Edward J. Lincoln, Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001).

Ronald Dore, “Japan’s Reform Debate: Patriotic Concern or Class Interest? Or Both?” Journal of Japanese Studies 25:1 (Winter 1999): 65-89.

Steven Vogel, “Can Japan Disengage? Winners and Losers in Japan’s Political Economy, and the Ties that Bind Them,” Social Science Japan Journal 2:1 (April 1999): 3-21.

Frank K. Upham, “Privatized Regulation: Japanese Regulatory Style in Comparative Perspective.” Fordham International Law Journal 20:2 (December 1996): 396-511.

Henry Laurence, Money Rules: The New Politics of Finance in Britain and Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001)--on even more recent financial services deregulation, again compared to similar reforms in Britain.

Mabuchi chapter in Gary D. Allinson and Yasunori Sone, eds., Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).

See Also Topics: the Large Scale Retail Store Law and Financial Regulation in Japan

Disadvantaged Groups in Japan (Burakumin, Koreans)

Erin Aeran Chung, Immigration and Citizenship in Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Susan Pharr, Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)--includes a specific section on the burakumin movement.

Frank K. Upham, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987)--includes specific section on the burakumin movement.

George deVos, Japan's Invisible Race Caste In Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972).

John Lie, Multiethnic Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001).

John Lie, Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).

Sonia Ryang, Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin (London: Routledge, 2000).

Sonia Ryang, North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology and Identity (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997).

Changsoo Lee and George DeVos, Koreans in Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981).

George DeVos, Social Cohesion and Alienation: Minorities in the United States and Japan (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992).

Ian Neary, "Japanese Government Minority Policies," in M. Hessop (ed.) Power and Policy in Liberal Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 1992)--a comparative analysis of government's policies toward minorities in Japan.

Setsure Tsurushima, "Human Rights Issues and the Status of the Burakumin and Koreans in Japan," in George DeVos, ed., Institutions for Change in Japanese Society (Berkeley: University of California Inst. for EAS, 1984), pp. 83-113

Education Policy in Japan

Roger Goodman and David Phillips, eds., Can the Japanese Change Their Education System (Oxford: Symposium Books, 2003).

Robert W. Aspinall, Teachers' Unions and the Politics of Education in Japan (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2001).

Shoko Yoneyama, The Japanese High School: Silence and Resistance (London: Routledge, 1999).

Leonard Schoppa, Education Reform in Japan: A Case of Immobilist Politics (London: Routledge, 1991).

Thomas Rohlen, Japan's High Schools (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).

Merry White, The Japanese Educational Challenge (New York: The Free Press, 1987).

Benjamin Duke, The Japanese School: Lessons for Industrial America (New York: Praeger, 1986).

Teruhisa Horio, Educational Thought and Ideology in Modern Japan: State Authority and Intellectual Freedom, edited and translated by Steven Platzer, (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1988), pp. 1-18, 171-188.

Edward Beauchamp, ed., Windows on Japanese Education (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991).

James J. Shields, Jr., ed., Japanese Schooling: Patterns of Socialization, Equality, and Political Control (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989).

Special Issue of the Journal of Japanese Studies 15:1 (Winter 1989)--on preschool education and socialization..

Joy Hendry, Becoming Japanese: the World of the Pre-school Child (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989).

Catherine Lewis, Educating Hearts and Minds: Reflections on Japanese Preschool and Elementary Education (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Election Campaigning in Japan

Patrick Koellner, “Japanese Lower House Campaigns in Transition: Manifest Changes or Fleeting Fads?” Journal of East Asian Studies (2008): 121-149.

Ethan Scheiner, Democracy Without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Steven R. Reed, ed., Japanese Electoral Politics: Creating a New Party System (London: Routledge, 2003).

Hideo Otake, ed. How Electoral Reform Boomeranged: Continuity in Japanese Campaigning Style (Tokyo: Japan Center for International Echange, 1998).

Ray Christensen, "The Effects of Electoral Reforms on Campaign Practices in Japan: Putting New Wine Into Old Bottles," Asian Survey 38:10 (October 1998), pp. 986-1004.

Gerald Curtis, Election Campaigning Japanese Style (New York: Columbia University Press, 1971).

Hitoshi Abe, Muneyuki Shindo, and Sadafumi Kawato, The Government and Politics of Japan (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994).

Jacob Schlesinger, Shadow Shoguns (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997).

Electoral Reform in Japan

Ellis S.Krauss and Robert Pekkanen, "Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform: The Discreet Charm of the LDP?" Journal of Japanese Studies 30:1 (Winter 2004):

Ethan Scheiner, Democracy Without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Margarita Estevez-Abe, Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)—includes a discussion of how electoral reforms have affect public policy.

Margarita Estevez-Abe, “Japan’s Shift Toward a Westminster System: A Structural Analysis of the 2005 Lower House Election and its Aftermath,” Asian Survey 46:4 (July/August 2006): 632-651.

Steven Reed and Michael Thies, “The Causes of Electoral Reform,” in Matthew Shugart and Martin Wattenberg, eds., Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of Both Worlds? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001): 152-172--the book also includes an article by the same authors on the "consequences" of reform.

Michael Thies, “Changing How the Japanese Vote: The Promise and Pitfalls of the 1994 Electoral Reform,” in John Fuh-sheng Hsieh and David Newman, eds., How Asia Votes (New York: Chatham House, 2001): 92-117.

Gary Cox, Michael Thies, and Frances Rosenbluth, “Electoral Reform and the Fate of Factions: The Case of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party,” British Journal of Political Science 29:1 (1999): 33-56.

Raymond Christensen, "Electoral Reform in Japan: How it was Enacted and Changes it May Bring," Asian Survey (July 1994), pp. 589-605.

Karen Cox and Leonard Schoppa, “Interaction Effects in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: Theory and Evidence from Germany, Japan, and Italy,” Comparative Political Studies 35:10 (December 2002), pp. 1027-1053.

Ozawa Ichiro, Blueprint for a New Japan (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1994), pp. 62-75.

Steven R. Reed, "Thinking about the Heiritsu-sei: A Structural Learning Approach," Kokyo sentaku no kenkyu 24 (1994): pp. 46-60.

Takayuki Sakamoto, “Explaining Electoral Reform: Japan Versus Italy and New Zealand,” Party Politics 5:4 (1999): 419-438.

Jacob Schlesinger, Shadow Shoguns (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997)--chapters 20-22.

Masaru Kohno, Japan's Postwar Party Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)--includes chapters on electoral reform episodes in 1945-47 and 1994.

Environmental Movement in Japan

Daniel Aldrich, Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008).

Yves Tiberghien and Miranda A. Schreurs, “High Noon in Japan: Embedded Symbolism and Post-2001 Kyoto Protocol Politics,” Global Environmental Politics 7:4 (November 2007): 70-91.

Miranda Schreurs, Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Timothy S. George, Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001).

Jeffrey Broadbent, Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

S. Hayden Lesbirel, Nimby Politics in Japan: Energy Siting and the Management of Environmental Conflict (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999).

Isao Miyaoka, Legitimacy in International Society: Japan's Reaction to Global Wildlife Preservation (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

Lam Peng-Er, Green Politics in Japan, (London: Routledge, 1999).

Pradyumna P. Karan and Unryu Suganuma, eds., Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan (University Press of Kentucky, 2008).

Margaret McKean, "Pollution and Policymaking," in T.J. Pempel, ed., Policymaking in Contemporary Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977) and her 1980 book on the same topic--environmental movement.

Groth chapter in Susan Pharr and Ellis Krauss, eds. Media and Politics in Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996)--on the protest against bullet train noise pollution.

Frank K. Upham, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987)--includes specific section on the environmental movement.

Purnendra Jain, "Green Politics and Citizen Power in Japan: Asian Survey 31:6 (June 1991)--on a more recent example of citizens movements in Japan

Financial Regulation in Japan

Jennifer A. Amyx, Japan's Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).

Frances M. Rosenbluth, Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989)--on early deregulation in the financial services industry.

Steven Vogel, Freer Markets and More Rules (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996)--on more recent financial services deregulation, compared to similar reforms in Britain.

Peter Hartcher, The Ministry: How Japan's Most Powerful Institution Endangers World Markets (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998)--a more journalistic account of the financial policy turmoil of the 1990s.

T.J. Pempel, “Structural Gaiatsu: International Finance and Political Change in Japan.” Comparative Political Studies 32:8 (December 1999): 907-932.

Kent E. Calder, “Assault on the Bankers’ Kingdom: Politics, Markets, and the Liberalization of Japanese Industrial Finance.” In Michael Loriaux, Meredeth Woo-Cumings, Kent Calder, Sylvia Maxfield, and Sofia Perez, Capital Ungoverned: Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997).

Immigration Policy in Japan

Erin Aeran Chung, Immigration and Citizenship in Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Apichai Shipper, Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008).

Michael Douglass, Japan and Global Migration (London: Routledge, 1999).

Amy Gurowitz, “Mobilizing International Norms: Domestic Actors, Immigrants, and the Japanese State.” World Politics 51:3 (1999): 413-445.

Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Kimberly A. Hamilton, Reinventing Japan: Immigration's Role in Shaping Japan's Future (New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001).

Betsy Brody, Opening the Doors: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Globalization in Japan (London: Routledge, 2001).

Industrial Policy in Japan/Declining Industries

Mireya Solis, Banking on Multinationals: Public Credit and the Export of Japan's Sunset Industries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).

Mark Tilton, Restrained Trade: Cartels in Japan's Basic Materials Industries (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996)--focuses especially on aluminum, cement, petrochemicals, and steel.

Robert Uriu, Troubled Industries: Confronting Economic Change in Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996).

Merton Peck, Richard Levin, and Akira Goto, "Picking Losers," Journal of Japanese Studies 13:1 (Winter 1987), pp. 79-123.

Ezra Vogel, Comeback (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985)--focuses especially on coal and shipbuilding.

Ronald Dore, Flexible Rigidities (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986)--focuses especially on textile sector.

Industrial Policy in Japan/Growth Industries

Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982).

Scott Callon, Divided Sun: MITI and the Breakdown of Japanese High Tech Industrial Policy, 1975-1993 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995)--on the MITI's more recent industrial policy toward computer and semiconductor industries.

Kent Calder, Strategic Capitalism: Private Business and Public Purpose in Japanese Industrial Finance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).

Chalmers Johnson, Laura D'Andrea Tyson, and John Zysman, eds., Politics and Productivity: The Real Story of Why Japan Works (New York: Ballinger, 1989), Chapters on industrial policy in general as well as on telecommunications, semiconductor, and aircraft industries.

Hugh Patrick, ed., Japan's High Technology Industries (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986)--chapters on electronics, semiconductors, and biotechnology, among others.

David Friedman, The Misunderstood Miracle (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988)--on machine tool industry.

Richard J. Samuels, The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987)--on coal, oil, nuclear, and electricity industries.

Daniel I. Okimoto, Between MITI and the Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989).

Daniel Okimoto, Takuo Sugano, & Franklin Weinstein, Competitive Edge: The Semiconductor Industry in the U.S. and Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984).

Greg Noble, "The Japanese Industrial Policy Debate," in Stephen Haggard and Chung-in Moon, eds., Pacific Dynamics: The International Politics of Industrial Change (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989)--VCRs and steel minimills.

Greg Noble, “Let a Hundred Channels Contend: Technological Change, Political Opening, and Bureaucratic Priorities in Japanese Television Broadcasting.” Journal of Japanese Studies 26:1 (2000): 79-109.

Marie Anchordoguy, "Mastering the Market," in International Organization 42:3 (Summer 1988), pp. 509-543 and her 1989 book on the same subject--computer industry.

Judicial Politics in Japan

Mark D. West, Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).

Curtis J. Milhaupt, J. Mark Ramseyer, and Michael K. Young, Japanese Law in Context: Readings in Society, the Economy, and Politics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001).

J. Mark Ramseyer and Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Japan's Political Marketplace (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993)--chapters 8 and 9 focus on the judicial system.

J. Mark Ramseyer and Minoru Nakazato, Japanese Law : An Economic Approach (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).

David T. Johnson, The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

David T. Johnson, "Above the Law? Police Integrity in Japan," Social Science Japan Journal 6:1 (2003) 19-37.

John O. Haley, Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).

Frank K. Upham, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987).

Frank K. Upham, "The Man Who Would Import: A Cautionary Tale About Bucking the System in Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies 17:2 (Summer 1991), pp. 323-343.

Frank K. Upham, "Weak Legal Consciousness as an Invented Tradition," in Stephen Vlastos ed. Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), pp. 48-64.

David M. O'Brien, To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996).

Hiroshi Itoh, The Japanese Supreme Court (New York: Marcus Weiner Publishing, 1989).

John Haley, "The Myth of the Reluctant Litigant, Journal of Japanese Studies 4:2 (Summer 1978), pp. 359-90.

J. Mark Ramseyer, "Reluctant Litigant Revisited: Rationality and Disputes in Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies 14:1 (Winter 1988), pp. 111-123.

Lawrence Beer, "Law and Liberty," in Takeshi Ishida and Ellis Krauss, eds., Democracy in Japan (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989)

Labor and Japanese Politics

Ikuo Kume, Disparaged Success: Labor Politics in Postwar Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998).

Margarita Estevez-Abe, Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Mari Miura, “From Welfare Through Work to Lean Work: The Politics of Labor Market Reform in Japan,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 2002.

Leonard Schoppa, Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006)—includes a section in chapter 6 on reforms in labor policy as well as a discussion of women and work in chapter 7.

Andrew Gordon, The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001).

Mary Brinton, Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).

Sheldon Garon, The State and Labor in Modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).

T.J. Pempel and Keiichi Tsunekawa, "Corporatism Without Labor? The Japanese Anomaly," in Philippe C. Schmitter and Gerhard Lembruch, eds., Trends Toward Corporatist Intermediation (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1979), pp. 231-270.

Dennis McNamara, “Corporatism and Cooperation among Japanese Labor,” Comparative Politics 28:4 (July 1996): 379-397.

Ronald Gilson and Mark Roe, “Lifetime Employment: Labor Peace and the Evolution of Japanese Corporate Governance,” Columbia Law Review 99:2 (March 1999): 508-540.

Lonny Carlile, "Party Politics and the Japanese Labor Movement: Rengo's `New Political Force'," Asian Survey 34 (July 1994), pp. 606-620.

Three chapters in Gary Allinson and Yasunori Sone, eds., Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan (Ithaca: Cornell Univ Press, 1993)

Robert Cole, Japanese Blue Collar (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971).

Hanami and Turner articles in Takeshi Ishida and Ellis Krauss, eds., Democracy in Japan (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989), pp. 281-323.

Ehud Harari, The Politics of Labor Legislation in Japan: National-International Interaction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973).

The Large Scale Retail Stores Law

Jean Heilman Grier, "Japan’s Regulation of Large Retail Stores: Political Demands Versus Economic Interests.” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 22:1 (Spring 2001): 1-60.

Leonard Schoppa, Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)--chapter 6 covers regulation of the retail distribution sector before and after the Structural Impediments Initiative.

Article by Frank Upham in Gary D. Allinson and Yasunori Sone, eds., Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).

Leadership in Japan

Richard Samuels, "Leadership and Political Change in Japan: The Case of the Second Rincho," Journal of Japanese Studies 29:1 (Winter 2003).

Richard Samuels, Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).

Tomohito Shinoda, Leading Japan: The Role of the Prime Minister (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000).

Gerald Curtis, The Logic of Japanese Politcs: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).

Kenji Hayao, The Japanese Prime Minister and Public Policy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993).

Robert C. Angel, "Prime Ministerial Leadership in Japan," Pacific Affairs 61:4 (Winter 1988-89), pp. 583-602.

Terry MacDougall, ed., Political Leadership in Contemporary Japan, Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies; No. 1 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 1982).

The Liberal Democratic Party

Ethan Scheiner, Democracy Without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Gerald Curtis, The Logic of Japanese Politcs: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).

Gerald Curtis, The Japanese Way of Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).

Hideo Otake, "Political Realignment and Policy Conflict," in Otake, ed., Power Shuffles and Policy Processes (Tokyo: JCIE, 2000): 125-151.

Jacob Schlesinger, Shadow Shoguns (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997).

Frances Rosenbluth and Mark Ramseyer, The Japanese Political Marketplace (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).

Masaru Kohno, Japan's Postwar Party Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)--includes chapters on formation of LDP, its internal dynamics, and its split in 1993.

Hitoshi Abe, Muneyuki Shindo, and Sadafumi Kawato, The Government and Politics of Japan (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994).

Nathaniel B. Thayer, How the Conservatives Rule Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969).

Sato Seizaburo and Matsuzaki Tetsuhisa, Jiminto seiken (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1986).

Inoguchi Takashi and Iwai Tomoaki, `Zoku giin' no kenkyu (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, 1987)

Local Government in Japan

Andrew Dewit and Sven Steinmo, "The Political Economy of Taxes and Redistribution in Japan," Social Science Japan Journal 5:1 (2002): 159-178--includes a discussion of center-local tax allocation.

Steven Reed, Japanese Prefectures and Policymaking (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1986).

Steven Reed, "Is Japanese Government Really Centralized?" Journal of Japanese Studies 8:1 (Winter 1982), pp. 133-164.

Richard J. Samuels, The Politics of Regional Policy in Japan: Localities Incorporated? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983).

Muramatsu Michio, "Center-Local Political Relations in Japan: A Lateral Competition Model," Journal of Japanese Studies 12:2 (Summer 1986), pp. 303-328.

Terry MacDougall, "Democracy and Local Government in Postwar Japan," in Takeshi Ishida and Ellis Krauss, eds., Democracy in Japan (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989), pp. 139-169.

Ellis Krauss and Kurt Steiner, eds., Political Opposition and Local Politics in Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980).

Kurt Steiner, Local Government in Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1965).

Media and Japanese Politics

Mark D. West, Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).

Laurie Freeman, Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).

Ellis Krauss, Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000).

Susan Pharr and Ellis Krauss, eds. Media and Politics in Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996).

Ofer Feldman, Politics and the News Media in Japan (UMP, 1994).

Ellis Krauss, "Changing Television News in Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies 57:3 (August 1998), pp. 663-692.

Yamamoto Taketoshi, "The Press Clubs of Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies 15:2 (Summer 1989), pp. 371-389.

Kabashima Ikuo and Jeffrey Broadbent, "Referent Pluralism: Mass Media and Politics in Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies 12:2 (Summer 1986), pp. 329-362.

Stanley Budner and Ellis Krauss, Communicating Across the Pacific (Missoula, Montana: Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs, 2000?).

Nationalism in Japan

John Nathan, Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004)--includes a profile of Japan's most famous nationalist, Shintaro Ishihara.

Kenneth Pyle, The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 1996).

Sandra Wilson, ed., Nation and Nationalism in Japan (London: Routledge/Curzon, 2002).

Eugene A. Matthews, "Japan's New Nationalism," Foreign Affairs 82:6 (November/December 2003).

Political Culture in Japan

Scott Flanagan, "The Genesis of Variant Political Cultures: Contemporary Citizen Orientations in Japan, America, Britain, and Italy," in Sidney Verba and Lucian Pye, eds., The Citizen and Politics (Stamford, CT: Greylock, 1978), pp. 129-165.

Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism (New York: WW Norton, 1996): 211-263.

Bradley Richardson, Political Culture in Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974).

Brandley Richardson and Scott Flanagan, Politics in Japan (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984), especially chapters 4-6.

Curtis Martin and Bruce Stronach, Politics East and West: A Comparison of Japanese and British Political Culture (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1992).

Takeshi Ishida, Japanese Society (New York: Random House, 1971).

Takeo Doi, The Anatomy of Dependence, John Bester, trans., (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1971).

Chie Nakane, Japanese Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970).

Takako Kishima, Political Life in Japan: Democracy in a Reversible World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).

Masao Maruyama, Thought and Behaviour in Modern Japanese Politics, Ivan Morris, ed. (London: Oxford University Press, 1969).

Political Finance in Japan

Matthew Carlson, Money Politics in Japan: New Rules, Old Practices (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2007).

Gary W. Cox and Michael Thies, "How Much Does Money Matter? 'Buying Votes' in Japan, 1967-1990," Comparative Political Studies 33:1 (2000): 37-57.

Brian Woodall, Japan Under Construction: Corruption, Politics, and Public Works (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).

Verena Blechinger, Politische Korruption in Japan: Ursachen, Hintergr·de und Reformversuche (Institut f· Asienkunde: 1998).

Richard H. Mitchell, Political Bribery in Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996).

Rei Shiratori, "Political Finance and Scandal in Japan," in Herbert Alexander and Rei Shiratori, eds., Comparative Political Finance Among the Democracies (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), pp. 187-205.

Gerald Curtis, The Japanese Way of Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988)--includes a chapter on campaign finance.

Iwai Tomoaki, `Seiji shikin' no kenkyu (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, 1990)

Protest in Japan

Daniel Aldrich, Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008).

Patricia Steinhoff, "Protest and Democracy," in Takeshi Ishida and Ellis Krauss, eds., Democracy in Japan (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1989)--protest in general.

Frank K. Upham, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987)--very good on protest in general with specific sections on environmental movement, women's movement, burakumin movement.

Susan Pharr, Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)--also good on protest in general; specific sections on womens & burakumin movements.

Ellis Krauss, et al, eds., Conflict in Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press: 1984)--sections on labor movement, student protest movement, and women's movement.

David Apter and Nagayo Sawa, Against the State (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984)--the violent anti-airport movement at Narita.

Patricia Steinhoff, "Hijackers, Bombers, and Bank Robbers," Journal of Asian Studies 48:4 (November 1989), pp. 724-740--the violent protests of the Red Army terrorist group.

James White, Ikki: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995).

Scandal in Japanese Politics

Mark D. West, Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).

Brian Woodall, Japan Under Construction: Corruption, Politics, and Public Works (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).

Farley chapter in Susan Pharr and Ellis Krauss, eds. Media and Politics in Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996).

Jacob Schlesinger, Shadow Shoguns (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997)--on the political machine that Tanaka built, with discussion of Lockheed scandal, Recruit scandal, Sagawa-kyubin scandal, and more.

Chapter on Japan by Terry MacDougall in Andrei Markovits and Mark Silverstein, eds., The Politics of Scandal: Power and Process in Liberal Democracies (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1988).

Chalmers Johnson, "Tanaka Kakuei, Structural Corruption, and the Advent of Machine Politics in Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies 12:1 (Winter 1986), pp. 1-28.

Yayama Taro, "The Recruit Scandal," Journal of Japanese Studies 16:1 (Winter 1990), pp. 93-114.

Social Welfare Policy in Japan

Margarita Estevez-Abe, Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Gregory Kasza, One World of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).

Leonard Schoppa, Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).

Mikiko Eto, "Public Involvement in Social Policy Reform: Seen from the Perspective of Japan’s Elderly-Care Insurance Scheme.” Journal of Social Policy 30:1 (2001): 17-36.

Deborah J. Milly, Poverty, Equality and Growth: The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).

Patricia Boling, “Family Policy in Japan.” Journal of Social Policy 27:2 (1998): 173-90.

John C. Campbell and Naoki Ikegami. “Long-term Care Insurance Comes to Japan,” Health Affairs 19:3 (2000): 26-39.

Yuji Horioka, “Japan’s Public Pension System: What’s Wrong With It and How to Fix It.” Japan and the World Economy 11P (1999): 293-303.

Junko Kato, "Public Pension Reforms in the United States and Japan," Comparative Political Studies 24:1 (April 1991), pp. 100-126.

John Creighton Campbell, "The Old People Boom and Japanese Policymaking," Journal of Japanese Studies 5:2 (Summer 1979), pp. 321-357.

John C. Campbell, How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).

Kent Calder, Crisis and Compensation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988)--chapter on welfare policy.

Stephen Anderson, Welfare Policy and Politics in Japan (New York: Paragon House, 1993).

The Socialist/Social Democratic Party

Rikki Kersten and David Williams, eds., The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Essays in Honour of J.A.A. Stockwin, (London: Routledge, 2006).

Stephen Johnson, Opposition Politics in Japan: Strategies Under a One-Party Dominant Regime (London: Routledge, 2000)--includes some discussion of the Socialist Party's periodoic participation in electoral cooperation to oust the LDP from power..

Ray Christensen, Ending the LDP Hegemony: Party Cooperation in Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000)--includes some discussion of the Socialist Party's periodoic participation in electoral cooperation to oust the LDP from power.

Ronald J. Hrebenar, Peter Berton, Akira Nakamura, and J. A. A. Stockwin, eds. Japan's New Party System (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000)--includes a chapter on the post-realignment Social Democratic Party of Japan.

J.A.A. Stockwin, "The Japan Socialist Party: A Politics of Permanent Opposition," in Hrebenar, ed., The Japanese Party System (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986), pp. 83-115.

Germaine A. Hoston, “Between Theory and Practice: Marxist Thought and the Politics of the Japan Socialist Party.” Studies in Comparative Communism 20:2 (Summer 1987): 175-207.

J.A.A. Stockwin, "From JSP to SDPJ: The New Wave Society and the `New' Nihon Shakaito," Japan Forum 3:2 (October 1991), pp. 287-300.

Masaru Kohno, “Electoral Origins of Japanese Socialist Stagnation.” Comparative Political Studies 30:1 (February 1997): 55-77.

Gerald Curtis, The Japanese Way of Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988)--includes one chapter on the old Socialist Party.

Sokagakkai Buddhism and the Komeito

James White, The Sokagakkai and Mass Society (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1970).

Ronald J. Hrebenar, Peter Berton, Akira Nakamura, and J. A. A. Stockwin, eds. Japan's New Party System (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000)--includes a chapter on Komeito.

Ronald Hrebenar, "The Komeito: Party of `Buddhist' Democracy," in Hrebenar, ed., The Japanese Party System (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986), pp. 147-180.

Stephen Johnson, Opposition Politics in Japan: Strategies Under a One-Party Dominant Regime (London: Routledge, 2000)--includes some discussion of the Komeito's periodoic participation in electoral cooperation to oust the LDP from power..

Ray Christensen, Ending the LDP Hegemony: Party Cooperation in Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000)--includes some discussion of the Komeito's periodoic participation in electoral cooperation to oust the LDP from power.

Karen Cox, “A Local Five-Party Alliance Challenges the LDP in Hyogo,” in Steven R. Reed, ed., Japanese Electoral Politics: Creating a New Party System (London: Routledge, 2003).

Tax Policy In Japan

Andrew Dewit and Sven Steinmo, "The Political Economy of Taxes and Redistribution in Japan," Social Science Japan Journal 5:1 (2002): 159-178.

Hiromitsu Ishi, The Japanese Tax System, 3rd Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Junko Kato, The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).

Yukio Noguchi, "Tax Reform Debates in Japan," in M.J. Boskin and C. Mclure, eds., World Tax Reform (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1990).

Voting Behavior in Japan

Steven R. Reed, ed., Japanese Electoral Politics: Creating a New Party System (London: Routledge/Curzon, 2003).

Kabashima Ikuo and Imai Ryosuke, "Evaluation of Party Leaders and Voting Behaviour—an Analysis of the 2000 General Election," Social Science Japan Journal 5:1 (2002): 85-96.

Ethan Scheiner, "Urban Outfitters: City-Based Strategies and Success in Postwar Japanese Politics," Electoral Studies 18 (1999): 179-198.

Bradley Richardson, "Constituency Candidates Versus Parties in Japanese Voting Behavior," American Political Science Review 82:3 (September 1988), pp. 695-718.

Murakami Yasusuke, "The Age of New Middle Mass Politics," Journal of Japanese Politics 8:1 (Winter 1982), pp. 29-72.

Scott Flanagan, et al, The Japanese Voter (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991).

Women and Politics in Japan

Susan D. Holloway, Women and Family in Contemporary Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Robin LeBlanc, Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).

Leonard Schoppa, Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006)—includes discussion of how discontent by women with structures in the political economy has motivated “exit” rather than the exercise of “voice” through a vibrant women’s movement.

Tiana Norgren, Abortion Before Birth Control: The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).

Sherry L. Martin, "Alienated, Independent and Female: Lessons from the Japanese Electorate," Social Science Japan Journal 7:1 (2004): 1-19.

Mikiko Eto, “Women’s Leverage on Social Policymaking in Japan,” PS: Political Science and Politics 34:2 (June 2001): 241-246.

Mikiko Eto, "Public Involvement in Social Policy Reform: Seen from the Perspective of Japan’s Elderly-Care Insurance Scheme.” Journal of Social Policy 30:1 (2001): 17-36.

Yumiko Mikanagi, “Japan’s Gender-Biased Social Security Policy.” Japan Forum 10:2 (1998): 181-196.

Sandra Buckley, "A Short History of the Feminist Movement in Japan.” In Joyce Gelb and Marian Leif Palley, eds. Women of Japan and Korea: Continuity and Change (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994): 150-

Mary Brinton, Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).

Susan Pharr, Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)--includes a specific section on the women's movement.

Chapter by Susan Pharr in Ellis Krauss, et al, eds., Conflict in Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press: 1984).

Frank K. Upham, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987)--includes specific section on the women's movement.