A full-scale examination of the inner workings of Japan's political and industrial system.

荷兰记者、政治评论家。他曾任荷兰《新鹿特丹商报》派驻日本的东亚记者，30年来一直在东京工作生活，写下大量对日本政治、社会、文化与外交关系进行深刻剖析的文章。现为阿姆斯特丹大学比较政治经济系终身荣誉教授。 他曾撰写包括《日本：权力结构之谜》在内的20余本著作，影响西方国家对日政策的制订。著作被译为12种语言，其中日文版影响超过百万的日本读者，被日本学者称赞具有“革命性”的观点，在日本政治界中激起巨大反响。

Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese). To older members of the Japanese public, who constitute enka's primary audience, this music - of parted lovers, long unseen rural hometowns and self-sacrificing mothers - evokes a direct connection to the traditional roots of "Japaneseness". Overlooked in this emotional invoca...(展开全部)

Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in Japanese politics for more than thirty years, and he draws on their candid comments to...(展开全部)

In nineteenth-century industrial America, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Pulitzer ushered in the modern mass media. James McGrath Morris chronicles the epic story of Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who amassed great wealth and extraordinary power during his remarkable rise through America...(展开全部)

Like Alfred Nobel, Joseph Pulitzer is better known today for the prize that bears his name than for his contribution to history. Yet, in nineteenth-century industrial America, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Pulitzer ushered in the modern mass media. James McGrath Morris traces the epic story of this Je...(展开全部)

Empires - vast states of territories and people united by force and ambition - have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. "Empires in World History" departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continui...(展开全部)

Empires - vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition - have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. "Empires in World History" departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continu...(展开全部)

This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted in the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in the Middle East, the Ikhanate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was intimately tied to the character of its founder, Chinggis Khan, whose reign served as an idealized model for the exercise of legitimat...(展开全部)

丸山真男（1914-1996年），日本著名政治思想史学者，东京大学名誉教授，并获美国哈佛大学、普林斯顿大学分别授予名誉法学博士和名誉文学博士。其政治学被日本学界称为“丸山政治学”。著有《日本政治思想史研究》（1952年）、《现代政治的思想与行动》（1956-1957年）、《日本的思想》（1961年）、《忠诚与叛逆——转型期日本的精神状态》（1992年）等。 陈力卫，现为日本成城大学教授，译有《风土》（和辻哲郎著），列入商务印书馆“日本学术文库”出版。他同时为“日本学术文库”主编之一。