Trust and Mistrust in Contemporary Japanese Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367892753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str.

Kerstin Lukner; Alexandra Sakaki

Opis

This book portrays the political trust deficit prevalent in Japan through a unique range of case studies, illustrating how mistrust, rather than trust, impacts politics in Japan today. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Japan Forum.

Spis treści

1. Japan’s political trust deficit  Kerstin Lukner and Alexandra Sakaki 2. Party politics, elections and (mis-)trust in Japan Ellis Krauss, Kuniaki Nemoto, Robert J. Pekkanen and Aiji Tanaka 3. Trust deficit: Japanese communities and the challenge of rebuilding Tohoku Daniel P. Aldrich 4. Food safety and consumer trust in post-Fukushima Japan Cornelia Reiher 5. Multiculturalism and trust in Japan: educational policies and schooling practices Gabriele Vogt 6. The trust deficit in Sino-Japanese relations Caroline Rose and Jan Sykora

O autorze

Kerstin Lukner is the managing director of the Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr, a joint research and teaching institution of the universities of Duisburg-Essen and Bochum, Germany.

Alexandra Sakaki is a research fellow in the Asia division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, Germany.