TY - BOOK ID - 101204373 TI - The state of the Japanese state : contested identity, direction and role PY - 2018 SN - 1898823723 PB - Folkestone, Kent : Renaissance Books, DB - UniCat KW - United States KW - Japan KW - Foreign relations KW - Politics and government KW - al-Yābān KW - Giappone KW - Government of Japan KW - Iapōnia KW - I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ KW - Japam KW - Japani KW - Japão KW - Japon KW - Japonia KW - Japonsko KW - Japonya KW - Jih-pen KW - Mư̄ang Yīpun KW - Nihon KW - Nihon-koku KW - Nihonkoku KW - Nippon KW - Nippon-koku KW - Nipponkoku KW - Prathēt Yīpun KW - Riben KW - State of Japan KW - Yābān KW - Yapan KW - Yīpun KW - Zhāpān KW - Япония KW - اليابان KW - يابان KW - 日本 KW - 日本国 KW - Diplomatic relations. KW - Politics and government. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Ideologies KW - General. KW - china. KW - corruption. KW - diplomacy. KW - north korea. KW - okinawa. KW - russia. KW - vassalage to usa. KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Relations KW - Jepun KW - Yapon KW - Yapon Ulus KW - I︠A︡pon KW - Япон KW - I︠A︡pon Uls KW - Япон Улс KW - Japan-Foreign relations-20th century. KW - Japan-Foreign relations-21st century. KW - Japan-Foreign relations-United States. KW - Japan-Politics and government-1989-. KW - United States-Foreign relations-Japan. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101204373 AB - 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. ER -