The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Essays in Honour of J.A.A. Stockwin

ISBN-13: 9780415334341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 188 str.

Rikki Kersten; David Williams

Opis

Leftist thought and activism stands as a defining force in the articulation of political culture and policy in modern Japan. Operating from the periphery of formal political power for the most part, the Japanese Left has had an impact that extends far beyond its limited success at the ballot box. The essays that compose this Oxford Festschrift range over a wide set of themes including the tragic careers of two prewar left-wing martyrs (Goto-Jones); Hisashi Aso, the great Socialist apostate (Kersten); the Left s evasion of constitutional sovereignty (Williams); the rise and fall of Nikkyo-so (Aspinall); the Left s impact on privatization and bureaucratic reform (Nakano); the demise of parliamentary Socialism (Hyde); the Left s recent embrace of free market principles (Schoppa); critical Japan studies and American empire since 9.11 (Williams); and history s final judgment on the fate of this great political movement (Banno)."

Spis treści

A Tribute to Arthur Stockwin Rikki Kersten.  An Oxford Festschrift: The Book in Brief David Williams.  Acknowledgments.  Japanese Usage and Style  Part 1: Left-Wing Thought from the Russian Revolution to the War on Terrorism  1. The Left Hand of Darkness: Forging a Political Left in Interwar Japan Christopher Goto-Jones  2. Painting the Emperor Red: The Emperor and the Socialists in the 1930s Rikki Kersten  3. The Japanese Evasion of Sovereignty – Article 9 and the European Canon: Hobbes, Carl Schmitt and Foucault David Williams  Part 2: The Metamorphosis of the Left in Postwar Japan  4. The Rise and Fall of Nikkyo-so: Classroom Idealism, Union Power and the Three Phases of Japanese Politics since 1955 Robert W. Aspinall  6. ‘Democratic Government’ and the Left Koichi Nakano  7. The End Game of Socialism: From the JSP to the DJP Sarah Hyde  Part 3: Settling Accounts: Globalization, American Empire and History’s Judgment  8. Neo-Liberal Economic Policy Preferences of the ‘New Left’: Home-Grown or an Anglo-American Import? Leonard J. Schoppa  9. After Abu Ghraib: American Empire, the Left-Wing Intellectual and Japan Studies David Williams  10. The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Historical Overview Junichi Banno