Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy

Rikki Kersten is Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University, theNetherlands. She is the editor of our Routledge/Leiden Series in ModernEast Asian History and Politics.David Williams, one of Europe’s leading thinkers on modern Japan, is theauthor of Japan: Beyond the End of History, Japan and the Enemies of OpenPolitical Science and Defending Japan’s Pacific War, all published byRoutledge.

• 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

"...intellectual historians of prewar Japan will find solid scholarship and food for thought." -- Patricia G. Steinhoff, Journal of Japanese Studies, V. 34, No. 1, 2008"A festschrift offered to Oxford don J.A.A Stockwin,pioneering British Japanologist and specialist on the left,this edited collection likewise focuses upon left wing themes in Japanese modern history.The abruptness with which the political map of Japan has been redrawn in very recent years has obviously rendered conventional texts irrelevant.For its iconclastic style,its overlapping historically grounded essays and "up to date-ness" ,this book is highly recommended to students and teachers of Japanese politics alike."--Geoffrey C.Gunn,International Annual Bibliography of Festschriften