Curtis, Gerald. The Logic of Japanese Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Gordon, Andrew, ed. Postwar Japan as History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Pyle, Kenneth. The Making of Modern Japan. 2nd ed. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1996.
Schwartz, Frank, and Susan Pharr, eds. The State of Civil Society in Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Selected chapters)
Vlastos, Stephen, ed. Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Anchordoguy, Marie. "Japan at a Technological Crossroads: Does Change Support Convergence Theory?" Journal of Japanese Studies 23, 3 (1997): 363-397. In class notes.
Armacost, Michael H. Friends or Rivals? New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, chaps. 7 and 8.
Baerwald, Hans H. Japan's Parliament: An Introduction. London: Cambridge University Press, 1974, pp. 1-29, 74-102.
Campbell, John C. Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977, pp. 12-42, 115-171.
Colignon, Richard, and Chikako Usui. "The Resilience of Japan's Iron Triangle." Asian Survey 41, 5 (September/October 2001): 865-895. In course binder.
Dore, Ronald. "Goodwill and the Spirit of Capitalism." Chap. 9 in Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. In class notes.
Estevez-Abe, Margarita. "State-Society Partnerships in the Japanese Welfare State." Chap. 7 in The State of Civil Society in Japan. Edited by Frank Schwartz, and Susan Pharr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Field, Norma. "Okinawa: A Supermarket Owner." Chap. 1 in In the Realm of a Dying Emperor. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
Flanagan, S. "Mechanisms of Social Network Influence in Japanese Voting Behavior." Chap. 4 in The Japanese Voter. Edited by Flanagan, Scott C., et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
Freeman, Christopher. Technology Policy and Economic Performance: Lessons from Japan. London: Pinter, 1987, chaps. 2 and 3.
Garon, S. "From Meiji to Heisei: The State and Civil Society in Japan." Chap. 2 in The State of Civil Society in Japan. Edited by Frank Schwartz, and Susan Pharr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Garon, S., and M. Mochizuki. "Negotiating Social Contracts." Chap. 6 in Postwar Japan as History. Edited by Andrew Gordon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Gerlach, Michael. Alliance Capitalism: The Social Organization of Japanese Business. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, chap. 3 and 4.
Gluck, C. "The Idea of Showa." Daedalus 119, 3 (Summer 1990): 1-26. In course binder.
Gluck, C. "The Past in the Present." Chap. 3 in Postwar Japan as History. Edited by Andrew Gordon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Gordon, Andrew. "The Invention of Japanese-Style Labor Management." Chap. 2 in Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan. Edited by Stephen Vlastos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
"The Graying Society." Special Issue of Japan Echo 23 (1996). In course binder.
Hardacre, Helen. "After Aum: Religion and Civil Society in Japan." Chap. 6 in The State of Civil Society in Japan. Edited by Frank Schwartz and Susan Pharr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Heginbotham, Eric, and Richard J. Samuels. "Japan." Strategic Asia 2002-3: Asian Aftershocks. Edited by A. Friedberg and R. Ellings. Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2002. In course binder.
Inoue, Shun. "The Invention of the Martial Arts." Chap. 11 in Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan. Edited by Stephen Vlastos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Ito, Kimio. "The Invention of Wa and the Transformation of the Image of Prince Shotoku in Modern Japan." Chap. 3 in Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan. Edited by Stephen Vlastos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Johnson, Chalmers. "Tanaka Kakuei, Structural Corruption, and the Advent of Machine Politics in Japan." Chap. 9 in Japan: Who Governs? New York: Norton, 1995.
Katzenstein, Peter, and N. Okawara. Japan's National Security: Structures, Norms, and Policy Responses in a Changing World. Ithaca: Cornell University East Asia Program, 1993, chap. 5.
Kosaka, M. "The Showa Era." Daedalus 119, 3 (Summer 1990): 27-48. In course binder.
Krauss, Ellis. "Conflict in the Diet..." Chap. 10 in Conflict in Japan. Edited by Ellis Krauss et al. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. In class notes.
Lynn, Leonard H., and T. J. McKeown. Organizing Business: Trade Associations in America and Japan. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1988, pp. 10-44, 78-98, and chap. 8.
Maclachlan, Patricia. "The Struggle for an Independent Consumer Society." Chap. 10 in The State of Civil Society in Japan. Edited by Frank Schwartz, and Susan Pharr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Matsumura, Masahiro. "Inside Japans' Energy Development Politics:What Outsiders Do Not Know." Taiwan Security Research. April 2000. (This essay can be found on-line at: http://taiwansecurity.org/IS/IS-Matsumura-0400.htm )
McKean, Margaret. "State Strength and the Public Interest." Chap. 3 in Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan. Edited by Gary D. Allinson, and Yasunori Sone. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Mochizuki, Mike M., ed. Toward a True Alliance: Restructuring US-Japan Security Relations. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997, chaps. 1 and 2.
Nakane, Chie. "Criteria of Group Formation." Chap.1 in Japanese Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. In class notes.
Noble, Gregory W. "The Japanese Industrial Policy Debate." In Pacific Dynamics: The International Politics of Industrial Change. Edited by Stephen Haggard, and Chung-in Moon. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989. In class notes.
Otake, Hideo. "How a Diet Member's Koenkai Adapts to Social and Political Changes." Chap.1 in How Electoral Reform Boomeranged: Continuity in Japanese Campaigning Style. Edited by Hideo Otake. Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange, 1998.
Otake, Hideo. "Overview." In How Electoral Reform Boomeranged: Continuity in Japanese Campaigning Style. Edited by Hideo Otake. Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange, 1998, pp.vix-xxv, xx-xxi.
Ozawa, Ichiro. Blueprint for a New Japan. New York: Kodansha, 1994.
Passin, H. "The Occupation: Some Reflections." Daedalus 119, 3 (Summer 1990): 107-130. In course binder.
Pekkanen, Robert. "Molding Japanese Civil Society: State Structured Incentives and the Patterning of Civil Society." Chap. 5 in The State of Civil Society in Japan. Edited by Frank Schwartz and Susan Pharr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Pempel, T. J., and M. Muramatsu. "The Japanese Bureaucracy and Economic Development: Structuring a Proactive Civil Service." Chap. I in The Japanese Civil Service and Economic Development: Catalysts of Change. Edited by Hyung-Ki Kim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Pharr, Susan J. "Social Conflict, Authority, and the State." Chap. 10 in Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. In class notes.
Pyle, Kenneth. The Japanese Question. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1992. Chaps. 2 and 6.
Ramseyer, J. Mark, and Frances McCall Rosenbluth. Japan's Political Marketplace. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Chaps. 4, 5 and 7.
Reed, Steven. Making Common Sense of Japan. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. Chaps. 1 and 5.
Richardson, Bradley. Japanese Democracy: Power, Coordination, and Performance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, chap. 6. In class notes.
Richardson, Bradley. "Japanese Voting Behavior in Comparative Perspective." Chap. 1 in The Japanese Voter. Edited by Flanagan, Scott C. et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
Rozman, Gilbert. "Backdoor Japan: The Search for a Way Out via Regionalism and Decentralization." Journal of Japanese Studies 25, 1 (Winter 1999): 3-31. In class notes.
Samuels, R. J. The Business of the Japanese State. 1987, chaps. 3-6 (select two) and chap. 7.
Samuels, R. J. "Rich Nation, Strong Army": National Security and The Technological Transformation of Japan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994, chaps. 2 and 8.
Schwartz, Frank. "Of Fairy Cloaks and Familiar Talks: The Politics of Consultation." In Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan. Edited by Gary D. Allinson and Yasunori Sone. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Shipper, Apichai. "The Political Construction of Foreign Workers in Japan." Critical Asian Studies 34, 1 (2002): 41-68. In class notes.
Suzuta, Atsuyoshi. "The Way of the Bureaucrat." Chap. 40 in Inside the Japanese System. Edited by Daniel I. Okimoto and Thomas P. Rohlen. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988, pp. 196-202. In class notes.
Tamamoto, Masaru. "Village Politics: Japan's Prince of Disorder." World Policy Journal (Spring 1995): 49-60. In class notes.
Tilton Mark. "Regulatory Reform and Market Opening in Japan." Chap. 7 in Is Japan Really Changing its Ways? Edited by Lonnie Carlile and Mark Tilton. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1998.
Upham, Frank. "The Man Who Would Import: A Cautionary Tale About Bucking the System in Japan." Journal of Japanese Studies 17, 2 (Summer 1991): 323-343. In class notes.
Upham, Frank. Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987, chaps. 2-4.
White, James. "The Dynamics of Political Opposition." In Postwar Japan as History. Edited by Andrew Gordon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Yamamura, Kozo. "The Japanese Political Economy after the 'Bubble': Plus Ça Change." Journal of Japanese Studies 23, 2 (Summer 1997): 291-332. In class notes.
Books For Undergraduate Book Report
History
Barnhart, Michael A. Japan Prepares for Total War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Berger, Gordon. Parties Out of Power in Japan, 1931-1941. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
Cohen, Theodore. Remaking Japan: The Occupation as New Deal. New York: The Free Press, 1987.
Dower, John. War Without Mercy. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
Dower, John. Embracing Defeat. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
Dower, John. Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954. Cambridge: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1979.
Duus, Peter. Party Rivalry and Political Change in Taisho Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.
Fujitani, T. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.
Garon, Sheldon. State and Labor in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Garon, Sheldon. Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Gluck, Carol. Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Era. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Gordon, Andrew. Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Hane, M. Peasants, Rebels, and Outcasts. New York: Pantheon, 1982.
Hane, M. Reflections on the Way to the Gallows. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Hardacre, Helen. Shinto and the State, 1868-1988. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Hirschmeier, Johannes. The Origins of Entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.
Ienaga, Saburo. The Pacific War: 1931-1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.
Morley, James, ed. The Final Confrontation: Japan's Negotiations with the United States, 1941. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Ramseyer, Mark, and F. Rosenbluth. The Politics of Oligarchy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Reischauer, Haru. Samurai and Silk. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Seidenstecker, Edward. Low City, High City. New York: Random House, 1983.
Smethurst, Richard J. A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
Wilson, George M. Patriots and Redeemers in Japan: Motives in the Meiji Restoration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Industry and Economy
Anchordoguy, Marie. Computer Inc.: Japan's Challenge to IBM. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Cusumano, Michael. The Japanese Automobile Industry. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Friedman, David. The Misunderstood Miracle. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Gao, Bai. Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from 1931-1965. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Gerlach, Michael. Alliance Capitalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Gordon, Andrew. The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955. Cambridge: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 1985.
Johnson, Chalmers. MITI and the Japanese Miracle, 1925-1975. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982.
Matsumoto, Koji. The Rise of the Japanese Corporate System: The Inside View of a MITI Official. London: Kegan Paul, 1991.
Nishiguchi, Toshihiro. Strategic Industrial Sourcing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Samuels, R. J. The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Whittaker, D. H. Small Firms in the Japanese Economy. London: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Politics and Public Policy
Freeman, Laurie Anne. Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Hall, Ivan. Cartels of the Mind: Japan's Intellectual Closed Shop. New York: Norton, 1997.
Havens, Thomas R. H. Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965-1975. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Johnson, Chalmers. An Instance of Treason. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990.
Johnson, Chalmers. Japan: Who Governs? New York: Norton, 1995.
Kato, Junko. The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Kume, Ikuo. Disparaged Success: Labor Politics in Postwar Japan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.
McKean, Margaret A. Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Mitchell, Richard. Political Bribery in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
Packard, George. Protest in Tokyo. The Security Treaty Crisis of 1960. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.
Pyle, Kenneth. The Japanese Question. Washington: AEI Press, 1992.
Ramseyer, J. Mark, and Frances McCall Rosenbluth. Japan's Political Marketplace. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Rosenbluth, Frances McCall. Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Samuels, Richard J. The Politics of Regional Policy in Japan: Localities Incorporated? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Science and Technology:
Bartholomew, James A. The Formation of Science in Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Coleman, Samuel. Japanese Science: From the Inside. London: Routledge, 1999.
Cusumano, Michael. Japan's Software Factories: A Challenge to U.S. Management. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Samuels, Richard J. "Rich Nation, Strong Army." National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Sugimoto, M., and D. Swain. Science and Culture in Traditional Japan, A.D. 600-1854. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1978.
Society:
Allison, Anne. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Brinton, Mary. Women and the Economic Miracle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Campbell, John Creighton. How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Dore, Ronald. Shinohata. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.
Field, Norma. In the Realm of a Dying Emperor. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
Fowler, Edward. San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra. Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business, and Brides. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
Greenfeld, Karl Taro. Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Haley, John Owen. Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Hicks, George. Japan's Hidden Apartheid: The Korean Minority and the Japanese. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 1997.
Imamura, Anne. Urban Japanese Housewives. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987.
Kumazawa, Makoto. Portraits of the Japanese Workplace. Edited by A. Gordon. Boulder, CO: Westview press, 1996.
Lee, C., and G. de Vos. Koreans in Japan: Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Lie, John. Multiethnic Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Moore, Joe. Japanese Workers and the Struggle for Power. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
Nathan, John. Mishima: A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1974.
Pharr, Susan. Losing Face: Status Politics of Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Plath, David. Long Engagements: Maturity in Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980.
Rohlen, Thomas. Japan's High Schools. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983.
Scott-Stokes, Henry. The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1974.
Upham, Frank. Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Duus, P. "The Reaction of Japanese Big Business to a State-controlled Economy in the 1930's." International Review of Economics and Business (September 1984): 819-832. In class notes.
Gordon, Andrew. The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985, pp. 413-432. In class notes.
Green, Michael J. "State of the Field Report: Research on Japanese Security Policy." AccessAsia Review 2, Number 1 (1998). (This essay can be found on-line at: http://www.nbr.org/publications/review/vol2no1/essay.html )
Johnson, C. MITI and the Japanese Miracle. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1982, chaps. 1-3, 5, and 6.
Johnson, C. "Omote (Explicit) and Ura (Implicit): Translating Japanese Political Terms." Chap. 8 in Japan: Who Governs?: The Rise of the Developmental State. New York: Norton, 1995.
Katada, Saori. "Japan's Two-Track Aid Approach." Asian Survey 42, 2 (May 2002): 320-342. In course binder.
Kumazawa, Makoto. Portraits of the Japanese Workplace. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, chaps. 8 and 9.
Lincoln, Edward. Japan's Unequal Trade. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1990, chaps. 1, 2, and 6.
Najita, Tetsuo. The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Japanese Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 1-148.
Reed, Steven R. "Structure and Behaviour: Extending Duverger's Law to the Japanese Case." British Journal of Political Science 20, 3 (July 1990): 335-356. In class notes.
Samuels, R. J. The Business of the Japanese State. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987, pp. 68-102 and 168-191.
Samuels, R. J. "The Myth of the Independent Intellectual." In The Political Culture of Foreign Area Studies. Edited by R. J. Samuels and M. Weiner. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1992, pp. 17-56.
Samuels, R. J. "Rich Nation, Strong Army": National Security and The Technological Transformation of Japan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994, Chap. 9.
Schwartz, Frank. "What Is Civil Society?" Chap. 1 in The State of Civil Society in Japan. Edited by Frank Schwartz and Susan Pharr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Suganami, Hidemi. "Japan's Entry into International Society." Chap. 12 in The Expansion of International Society. Edited by Hedley Bull and Adam Watson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. In class notes.
Tsujinaka, Y. "Rengo and Its Osmotic Networks." In Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan. Edited by Gary D. Allinson and Yasunori Sone. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993, pp. 200-215.
Tsurumi, Yosuke. Present Day Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1926, chaps. 1 and 2.