The State of the Japanese State : : Contested Identity, Direction and Role / / Gavan McCormack.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: McCormack, Gavan,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Renaissance Books Asia Pacific Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

In 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Improbable Package -- Chapter 2: The Client State -- Chapter 3: The Client State’s Client State -- Chapter 4: Okinawa – State Violence and Civic Resistance -- Table: Japan vs Okinawa, 1995–2018 -- Chapter 5: Around the East [China] Sea -- Chapter 6: The Construction State -- Chapter 7: The Constitutional State -- Chapter 8: The Rampant State -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Afterword -- Index