The Routledge handbook of Japanese politics

The institutional landscape of Japanese politics / Alisa Gaunder

The Liberal Democratic Party: an explanation of its successes and failures / Steven R. Reed

The Democratic Party of Japan: development, organization and programmatic profile / Patrick Koellner

The rationale for coalition government / J.A.A. Stockwin

Prime ministerial leadership / Tomohito Shinoda

Election systems and campaign rules / Ray Christensen

Money in Japanese politics: regulation and reform / Matthew Carlson

The influence of voters / Sherry L. Martin

Democratizing the law in Japan / Jonathan David Marshall

Local government in Japan / Jun Saito and Kyohei Yamada

State and civil society in Japan / Yuko Kawato, Robert J. Pekkanen and Hidehiro Yamamoto

The Japanese conception of citizenship / Yumiko Mikanagi

Volunteer organizations (re)making democracy in Japan / Mary Alice Haddad

Civil society and the internet / Isa Ducke

The labor movement / Lonny E. Carlile

The women's movements / Ki-young Shin

The rise (and fall?) of social equality: the evolution of Japan's welfare state / Gregory J. Kasza

Policies for an aging/low fertility society / Leonard Schoppa

Gender-related social policy / Hiroko Takeda

Japanese immigration policy / Ken Haig

Japan's environmental politics and change: local, national and global / Peng Er Lam

The evolution of the Japanese policymaking system / Gregory W. Noble

The politics of economic reform / Aurelia George Mulgan

The politics of scarcity: fixing Japan's public finances / Gene Park

The politics and implications of postal reform / Patricia L. Maclachlan

Japan and East Asian economic regionalism / Mireya Solís

The haunt of history in Japan's foreign relations / Jennifer Lind

The politics of national security / Andrew L. Oros

Japan-U.S. relations / Michael J. Green and Nicholas Szechenyi

Japan-China relations: structure or management? / Ming Wan

Drifting apart? Japan-EU relations / Julie Gilson

The other Rashomon story: international norms and continuing constructions of Japaneseness / David Leheny.