Nonviolent state behavior in Japan, this book argues, results from the distinctive breadth with which the Japanese define security policy, making it inseparable from the quest for social stability through economic growth. While much of the literature on contemporary Japan has resisted emphasis on cultural uniqueness, Peter J. Katzenstein seeks to explain particular aspects of J...(展开全部)

彼得·J.卡赞斯坦（Peter J.Katzenstein），美国康奈尔大学政府系国际研究教授，曾担任著名的国际关系杂志《国际组织》主编。发表有《世界高层中的小国家》、《国家安全文化：世界政治中的文化与认同》等大量极富震撼力的作品，以在国际关系理论、比较政治学、地区研究等方面，特别是因为创了国家安全研究中的文化视角而蜚声国际关系理论界，与新现实主义的代表人物斯蒂芬·克莱斯勒（Stephen Krasnet）和新自由主义的代表人物罗伯特·基欧汉（Robert Keohane）并称为“三K”。

Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes or organized along the conventional dimensions of power, alliance, and geography. They argue that perspectives that neglect the roles of culture and identity are no longer adequate to explain the complexities of a world undergoing rapid change.

【亞洲與戰後日本：去帝國、公民行動與國家認同】 戰爭、敗北與帝國的崩解觸動了戰後日本社會的各方面，深刻地形塑日本人如何重構國家認同，重新與亞洲人接觸。「美國」提供了一個從戰災中再興的願景，「亞洲」卻暴露出戰爭罪行的創傷與種族責任的折磨。潛藏在戰後日本復興陰影裡的，是後帝國時代的幽靈，它的作祟使這個國家的精神復原變得既複雜又錯亂。 《亞洲與戰後日本：去帝國、公民行動與國家認同》（Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity）檢視1945年至21世紀初期的日本去帝國化。聚焦於進步派的行動者與知識份子的思想與作為，他們致力克服關於「亞洲」的刻板印象，對抗後帝國責任帶來的影響，形成新的區域團結與亞洲想像。Simon Avenell（澳洲國立大學...(展开全部)

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)

Naoki Sakai is associate professor of Japanese literature and history at Cornell University.

An excursion across the boundaries of language and culture, this provocative book suggests that national identity and cultural politics are, in fact, “all in the translation.” Translation, we tend to think, represents another language in all its integrity and unity. Naoki Sakai turns this thinking on its head, and shows how this unity of language really only exists in our manne...(展开全部)

Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated over six million Japanese nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout Asia and deported more than a million colonial subjects from Japan to their countries of origin. Depicted at the time as a postwar measure related to the demobilization of defeated Japanese soldiers, this population transfer was ...(展开全部)

Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated more than six million Japanese nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout Asia and deported more than a million colonial subjects from Japan to their countries of origin. Depicted at the time as a postwar measure related to the demobilization of defeated Japanese soldiers, this population transfer...(展开全部)

蒂莫西·乔治，美国桑福德大学教授，哈佛大学历史学博士。