{"product_id":"the-state-of-the-japanese-state-contested-identity-direction-and-role-9781898823711","title":"The State of the Japanese State: Contested","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this his latest work, Gavan McCormack argues that Abe Shinzo’s efforts to re-engineer the Japanese state may fail, but his radicalism continues to shake the country and will have consequences not easy now to predict. The significance of this book will be widely recognized, particularly by those researching contemporary world politics, international relations and the history of modern Japan. McCormack here revisits and reassesses his previous formulations of Japan as construction state (doken kokka), client state (zokkoku), constitutional pacifist state, and colonial state (especially in its relationship to Okinawa). He adds a further chapter on what he calls the ‘rampant state’, that outlines the increasingly authoritarian or ikkyo (one strong) turn of the Abe government in the fifth year of its second term. And he critically addresses the Abe agenda for constitutional revision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 : The Improbable Package \u003cbr\u003eThe Improbable Package – Imperial, Pacifist, Democratic \u003cbr\u003ePeace, Asia, and Article 9 \u003cbr\u003eSan Francisco and “Normalization” \u003cbr\u003eAbe 1: 1993–2007 \u003cbr\u003eAbe 2: 2012–2016 \u003cbr\u003eAbe 3: 2017–2018 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 : The Client State \u003cbr\u003ePoodle Powers \u003cbr\u003eServility \u003cbr\u003eChallenging Clientelism, 2005–2010 \u003cbr\u003ePositive Pacifism \u003cbr\u003eJapan the Beautiful \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The Client State’s Client State \u003cbr\u003eJapan in the East [China] Sea \u003cbr\u003eInclusion\/Exclusion, and Deceit \u003cbr\u003eAn “Okinawan Way” \u003cbr\u003e “Kempakusho” and “All Okinawa” \u003cbr\u003eThe Enigmatic Governor \u003cbr\u003eCourt Proceedings \u003cbr\u003e• The Experts Report, 2015 \u003cbr\u003e• Wakai\/Conciliation, 2016 \u003cbr\u003e• Speed Trial, 2016 \u003cbr\u003e• State of Play, 2017–2018 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Okinawa – State Violence and Civic Resistance \u003cbr\u003ePublic Enemy Number One \u003cbr\u003eCivil Suits \u003cbr\u003eSecurity \u003cbr\u003eStruggle without End \u003cbr\u003eTable : Japan vs Okinawa, 1995–2018 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Around the East [China] Sea \u003cbr\u003eChina \u003cbr\u003eNorth Korea \u003cbr\u003e• Rogue Regime \u003cbr\u003e• North Korea “as it is” \u003cbr\u003e• On Global Tables \u003cbr\u003e• Rehearsing Invasion \u003cbr\u003e• Sanctions and Law \u003cbr\u003eRussia and the Putin Plan \u003cbr\u003eSouth-Western Frontier Islands – Yonaguni, Miyako, and Ishigaki \u003cbr\u003eMage Island \u003cbr\u003eSenkaku\/Diaoyu \u003cbr\u003eCommunities \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 : The Construction State \u003cbr\u003eResilience \u003cbr\u003eSustainability \u003cbr\u003eContents vii \u003cbr\u003eThe Nuclear State \u003cbr\u003eThe Ever Faster State \u003cbr\u003eWar and Gambling \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 : The Constitutional State \u003cbr\u003ePopular Sovereignty and Symbolic Emperor \u003cbr\u003eRevision Agendas \u003cbr\u003e• I: Cold War era \u003cbr\u003e• II: LDP, 2012 \u003cbr\u003e• III: Abe, 2014–2017 \u003cbr\u003e• Emperor vs. Prime Minister \u003cbr\u003e• Unresolved Contradictions \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 : The Rampant State \u003cbr\u003eIkkyo – “One Strong” \u003cbr\u003eMoritomo Gakuen \u003cbr\u003eKake Gakuen Veterinary College \u003cbr\u003eConspiracy \u003cbr\u003eSecrets \u003cbr\u003eAbe Triumphant, October 2017 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 : Conclusion \u003cbr\u003eAfterword \u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Global Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360232833367,"sku":"9781898823711","price":88.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781898823711.jpg?v=1754127061","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-state-of-the-japanese-state-contested-identity-direction-and-role-9781898823711","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}