加文·麦考马克（Gavan McCormack），澳大利亚国立大学亚太研究中心教授。近著有《虚幻的乐园》（The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence）、《日本的宪法之争》（Japans Contested Constitution）、《目标：朝鲜——把朝鲜推向核灾难的边缘》（Target North Korea：Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe）等。他还是网络杂志《日本热点》（Japan Focus）的创办者之一。

加文·麦考马克（Gavan McCormack），澳大利亚国立大学亚太研究中心教授。近著有《虚幻的乐园》（The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence）、《日本的宪法之争》（Japans Contested Constitution）、《目标：朝鲜——把朝鲜推向核灾难的边缘》（Target North Korea：Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe）等。他还是网络杂志《日本热点》（Japan Focus）的创办者之一。

In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of suppression and mutual antagonism.

Between 1932 and 1945, more than 320,000 Japanese emigrated to Manchuria in northeast China with the dream of becoming land-owning farmers. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and Japan's surrender in August 1945, their dream turned into a nightmare. Since the late 1980s, popular Japanese conceptions have overlooked the disastrous impact of colonization and resurrected t...(展开全部)

In this detailed study of the development of the Japanese railroad industry during the Meiji period, Steven Ericson explores the economic role of government and the nature of state-business relations during Japan's modern transformation. Ericson challenges the tendency of current scholarship to minimize the roles of the Japanese government and commercial banks in Meiji industri...(展开全部)

Framed by the decline of the Heian aristocracy in the late 1100s and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 1600s, Japan's medieval era was a chaotic period of diffuse political power and frequent military strife. This instability prevented central authorities from regulating trade, issuing currency, enforcing contracts, or guaranteeing property rights. But the lack of...(展开全部)

Ronald P. Toby argues that this isolationism was by no means so complete as traditionally supposed. He demonstrates that the Tokugawa shoguns conducted a foreign policy that established the shogunate's legitimacy, preserved Japan's security in an unstable environment, and buttressed her ideological pretensions to centrality in an East Asian order independent of the Chinese worl...(展开全部)

This provocative literary debut--part personal history, part commentary--interweaves explications of Greek philosophers with commentary of our own era to provide a lyrical and highly charged quest for a personal mythology.

A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist. Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the ya...(展开全部)