Japan in Decline

Purnendra Jain, PhD (1987), Griffith University, is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Adelaide in Australia. His research interests include politics and foreign policy of contemporary Japan and the international relations of the Asia Pacific. Author and editor of one dozen books and numerous scholarly articles, his forthcoming edited book with Takashi Inoguchi is Japanese Politics Today (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).Brad Williams, Ph.D (2004), Monash University, teaches in the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong. He has published extensively on Japanese domestic politics and foreign policy.

• Introduction: Japan: Descending Asian Giant?; Financial System Reform: Recovery or Retrogression?; Political Earthquake in Japan; Japan’s ODA as Soft Power; Japan in Global Governance: War and Peace; Japan’s Politics of Environment and Climate Change: From NIMBY to Global Networks; National Security in Japan’s Space Policy; Japan’s Regional Engagement: Network Diplomacy; Can Japan Engage Northeast Asia? Overcoming Perceptual and Strategic Deficits; Japan’s Education System: Problems and Prospects in the Post-Industrial Age; The Impact of Changing Age Structure on Demographic Dividends and Intergenerational Transfers in Japan; Have Jobs and Hope Gone Forever in Japan? From Family and Firms to a New Social Network; The Culture of Migration Politics in Japan