Politics and Policy in Contemporary Japan

Readings

Required Texts

[Logic] =  Curtis, Gerald. The Logic of Japanese Politics. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780231108430.

[Postwar] = Gordon, Andrew. Postwar Japan as History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780520074750.

[Modern] = Pyle, Kenneth. The Making of Modern Japan. Florence, KY: Wadsworth Publishing, 1995. ISBN: 9780669200201.

[Tokyo] = Samuels, Richard J. Securing Japan: Tokyo’s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780801474903.

[Mirror] = Vlastos, Stephen. Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780520206373.

[State] = Schwartz, Frank and Susan Pharr. The State of Civil Society in Japan. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780521534628.

An asterisk (*) designates readings assigned only to graduate students.

CLASS #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Politics and policy in contemporary Japan	*Samuels, Richard J., ed. “The Myth of the Independent Intellectual.” In The Political Culture of Foreign Area and International Studies: Essays in Honor of Lucian W. Pye. Dulles,VA: Potomac Books, Inc., 1992. ISBN: 9780028810140. *Johnson, Chalmers. “Omote (Explicit) and Ura (Implicit): Translating Japanese Political Terms.” In Japan: Who Governs?: The Rise of the Developmental State. New York, NY: Norton, 1995. ISBN: 9780393314502.
2	The modernization of Japan	Itō, Kimio. “The Invention of Wa and the Transformation of the Image of Prince Shōtoku in Modern Japan.” In [Mirror]. Inoue, Shun. “The Invention of the Martial Arts.” In [Mirror].  [Modern] Chapters 4-5 and 7-9. *Suganami, Hidemi. “Japan’s Entry into International Society.” In The Expansion of International Society. Edited by Hedley Bull and Adam Watson. New York, NY: Oxford University Press USA, 1985. ISBN: 9780198219972. *Najita, Tetsuo. The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Japanese Politics. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 1-148. ISBN: 9780226568034. *Tsurumi, Yosuke. Present Day Japan. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1926, chapters 1 and 2.
3	From Taisho to Showa	[Modern] Chapters 10-11. Kosaka, Masataka. “The Showa Era (1926-1989).” Daedalus 119, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 27-48. Gluck, Carol. “The Idea of Showa.” Daedalus 119, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 1-26. *Johnson, Chalmers. MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy 1925-1975. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982, chapters 1-3. ISBN: 9780804712064. *Duus, Peter. “The Reaction of Japanese Big Business to a State-Controlled Economy in the 1930’s.” International Review of Economics and Business (September 1984): 819-832.
4	Transwar political history	[Modern] Chapters 12-14. Passin, Herbert. “The Occupation: Some Reflections.” Daedalus 119, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 107-130. Gluck, Carol. “The Past in the Present.” In [Postwar]. Garon, Sheldon. “From Meiji to Heisei: The State and Civil Society in Japan.” In [State]. *Johnson, Chalmers. MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy 1925-1975. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982, chapters 5 and 6. ISBN: 9780804712064. *Samuels, Richard J. The Business of the Japanese State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987, pp. 68-102 and 168-191. ISBN: 9780801494628.
5	Japanese culture and society	Hardacre, Helen. “After Aum: Religion and Civil Society in Japan.” In [State]. Nakane, Chie. “Criteria of Group Formation.” Chapter 1 in Japanese Society. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1972. ISBN: 9780520021549. Nathan, John. Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation’s Quest for Pride and Purpose. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2004, chapters 2, 5, and 6. ISBN: 9780618138944. *Shipper, Apichai. “The Political Construction of Foreign Workers in Japan.” Critical Asian Studies 34, no. 1 (2002): 41-68.
6	Japan incorporated [?]	Reed, Steven. Making Common Sense of Japan. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, chapter 5. ISBN: 9780822955108. Amyx, Jennifer A. Japan’s Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change. Princeton, PA: Princeton University Press, 2004, chapters 1-3. ISBN: 9780691128689. Colignon, Richard, and Chikako Usui. “The Resilience of Japan’s Iron Triangle.” Asian Survey 41, no. 5 (September/October 2001): 865-895.
7	The party system after 1993	Tamamoto, Masaru. “Village Politics: Japans Prince of Disorder.” World Policy Journal 12, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 49-60.  [Logic] Chapters 1-2. White, James. “The Dynamics of Political Opposition.” In [Postwar].
8	The liberal democratic party	[Logic] Chapter 5 Krauss, Ellis S., and Robert Pekkanen. “Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform: TheDiscreet Charm of the LDP?” Journal of Japanese Studies 30, no. 1 (Winter 2004): 1-34. (PDF) Ramseyer, J. Mark, and Frances McCall Rosenbluth. Japan’s Political Marketplace. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993, chapters 4 and 5. ISBN: 9780674472815.
9	The diet	Richardson, Bradley. Japanese Democracy: Power, Coordination, and Performance. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, chapter 6. ISBN: 9780300076646. Baerwald, Hans H. Japan’s Parliament: An Introduction. London, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1974, pp. 1-29 and 74-102. ISBN: 9780521203876. Krauss, Ellis. “Conflict in the Diet.” In Conflict in Japan. Written by E. S. Krauss, T. P. Rohlen, and P. G. Steinhoff. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780824808679.
10	The electoral system	[Logic] Chapter 4. Otake, Hideo. “Overview.” In How Electoral Reform Boomeranged: Continuity in Japanese Campaigning Style. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Center for International Exchange, 1998. ISBN: 9780700716449. *Reed, Steven R. “Structure and Behaviour: Extending Duverger’s Law to the Japanese Case.” British Journal of Political Science 20, no. 3 (1990): 335-356.
11	Voter mobilization and voting behavior	Otake, Hideo. “How a Diet Member’s Koenkai Adapts to Social and Political Changes.“In How Electoral Reform Boomeranged: Continuity in Japanese Campaigning Style. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Center for International Exchange, 1998. ISBN: 9780521846929. Richardson, B. “Japanese Voting Behavior in Comparative Perspective.” In The Japanese Voter. Edited by Scott C. Flanagan, Shinsaku Kohei, Ichiro Miyake, and Bradley M. Richardson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780300047806. Flanagan, S. “Mechanisms of Social Network Influence in Japanese Voting Behavior.” In The Japanese Voter. Edited by Scott C. Flanagan, Shinsaku Kohei, Ichiro Miyake, and Bradley M. Richardson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780300047806.
13	Civil society	Field, Norma. “Okinawa: A Supermarket Owner.” In Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s End. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1993. ISBN: 9780679741893. Pekkanen, Robert. “Molding Japanese Civil Society: State Structured Incentives and the Patterning of Civil Society.” In [State] Chapter 5. Pharr, Susan J. “Social Conflict, Authority, and the State.” In Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780520080928. *Schwartz, Frank. “What Is Civil Society?” In [State] Chapter 1.
14	Organized labor	Garon, S., and M. Mochizuki. “Negotiating Social Contracts.” In [Postwar]. Gordon, Andrew. “The Invention of Japanese-Style Labor Management.” In [Mirror]. *Kumazawa, Makoto. Portraits of the Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, and Managers. Edited by Andrew Gordon. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, chapters 8 and 9. ISBN: 9780813317083. *Tsujinaka, Y. “Rengō and Its Osmotic Networks.” In Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan. Written by Gary D. Allinson and edited by Yasunori Sone. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780801480966. *Gordon, Andrew. The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988, pp. 413-432. ISBN: 9780674271319.
15	The Zaikai	Schaede, Ulrike. Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, chapters 2, 5-9, and 12. ISBN: 9780801447068. Vogel, Steven K. Japan Remodeled. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005, chapter 6. ISBN: 9780801473715.
16	The bureaucracy	Pempel, T. J., and M. Muramatsu. “The Japanese Bureaucracy and Economic Development: Structuring a Proactive Civil Service.” In The Japanese Civil Service and Economic Development: Catalysts of Change. Edited by Hyung-Ki Kim, Michio Muramatsu, T. J. Pempel, and Kozo Yamamura. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780198289388. Schwartz, Frank. “Of Fairy Cloaks and Familiar Talks: The Politics of Consultation.” In Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan. Written by Gary D. Allinson and edited by Yasunori Sone. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780801480966. Rozman, Gilbert. “Backdoor Japan: The Search for a Way Out via Regionalism and Decentralization.” Journal of Japanese Studies 25, no. 1 (Winter 1999): 3-31.
17	The budget process	Campbell, John C. Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977, pp. 12-42 and 115-171. ISBN: 9780520040878. Ramseyer, J. Mark, and Frances McCall Rosenbluth. Japan’s Political Marketplace. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993, chapter 7. ISBN: 9780674472815. Suzuta, Atsuyoshi. “The Way of the Bureaucrat.” In Inside the Japanese System: Readings on Contemporary Society and Political Economy. Edited by Daniel Okimoto and Thomas Rohlen. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780804714235.
18	Social policy	Maclachlan, Patricia. “The Struggle for an Independent Consumer Society.” In [State]. Estevez-Abe, Margarita. “State-Society Partnerships in the Japanese Welfare State.” In [State]. Schoppa, Leonard J. Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006, chapters 1 and 9. ISBN: 9780801474453. Takao, Yasuo. “Foreigners in Local Communities: Beneficiaries to Participants.” In Reinventing Japan: From Merchant Nation to Civic Nation. New York, NY: PalgraveMacmillan, 2007. ISBN: 9781403984142.
19	Defense and foreign policy	[Tokyo] Preface, introduction, chapters 5-7, and conclusion. *Hughes, Christopher W. Japan’s Reemergence as a “Normal” Military Power. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006, pp. 368-9. ISBN: 9780198567585.
20	Energy policy	Samuels, R. J. The Business of the Japanese State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987, chapters 3-6 (select two) and chapter 7. ISBN: 9780801494628. Upham, Frank. “The Man Who Would Import: A Cautionary Tale About Bucking the System in Japan.” Journal of Japanese Studies 17, no. 2 (Summer 1991): 323-343. Pickett, Susan E. “Japan’s Nuclear Energy Policy: From Firm Commitment to Difficult Dilemma Addressing Growing Stocks of Plutonium, Program Delays, Domestic Opposition and International Pressure.” Energy Policy 30, no. 15 (2002): 1337-55. Lesbirel, S. Hayden. “Diversification and Energy Security Risks: The Japanese Case.” Japanese Journal of Political Science 5, no. 1 (2004): 1-22.
21	Science and technology policy	Freeman, Christopher. Technology Policy and Economic Performance: Lessons from Japan. London, UK: Pinter Publishers LTD, 1987, chapters 2 and 3. ISBN: 9780861879281. Anchordoguy, Marie. “Japan’s Technology Policies and their Limitation.” In Japan and China in the World Political Economy. Edited by Saadia Pekkanen and Kellee Tsai. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005, pp. 189-204. ISBN: 9780415546751. Samuels, Richard J. “Rich Nation, Strong Army”: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994, chapters 2 and 8. ISBN: 9780801499944.
22	Industrial policy	Dore, Ronald. “Goodwill and the Spirit of Capitalism.” Chapter 9 in Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780804714013. Pekkanen, Saadia K. Picking Winners? From Technology Catch-up to the Space Race in Japan. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, chapter 3. ISBN: 9780804747325. Vogel, Steven K. Japan Remodeled. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006, pp. 22-63 and chapter 7. ISBN: 9780801473715.
23	Japan in the post-Cold War World	Armacost, Michael H. Friends or Rivals? New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996, chapters 7-8. ISBN: 9780231104883. Ozawa, Ichiro. Blueprint for a New Japan. New York, NY: Kodansha, 1994. ISBN: 9784770018717. Pyle, Kenneth. The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era. Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1996, chapters 2 and 6. ISBN: 9780844737997. *Samuels, Richard J. “Rich Nation, Strong Army”: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994, chapter 9. ISBN: 9780801499944.