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Japan --- Japon --- Politics and government. --- Economic conditions. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions économiques --- J4600 --- Japan: Politics and law -- general and history --- Conditions économiques

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This book provides insightful observations and analyses of Asian citizens’ behaviour associated with requests to get a permit in conditions typically characterized by bureaucratic callousness. Using the AsiaBarometer Survey data on quality of life, it studies various types of behaviour using the multi-level regression models for 32 countries. In doing so, the book provides insights into how these societies cope with the state’s bureaucratism using Albert Hirschman’s concepts of Exit, Voice and Loyalty. Arguments are then juxtaposed with issues such as rampant corruption, government regulatory principles and measures, and calls by international organisations and non-governmental groups for business firms to be more strictly bound. Given the generally receding tide of democracy in Asian societies, this book will be of interest to academics, business, mass media and other professionals.

Social sciences. --- Comparative politics. --- Medical research. --- Quality of life. --- Social Sciences. --- Quality of Life Research. --- Comparative Politics. --- Choice (Psychology) --- Psychology --- Quality of Life --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Research.

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Crafting policy toward Asia is a difficult balancing act for Japan. Saddled by ill-will in Asia left over from its militarist legacy of the first half of the 20th century on the one hand and restrained by a United States eager to maintain its own position of power in Asia on the other, Japan has had to pick a narrow path. Its strong economic links to Asia have necessitated continuous and cordial relations with its Asian neighbors, and, as the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s revealed, those links keep Asia and Japan's fortunes tied closely together. This book gives a comprehensive account of Japan's Asian policy, its historical background and its current bilateral and regional interactions, as well as explores how those have changed or remained the same in the wake of the Asian financial crisis.

Japan --- Asia

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This book provides insightful observations and analyses of Asian citizens’ behaviour associated with requests to get a permit in conditions typically characterized by bureaucratic callousness. Using the AsiaBarometer Survey data on quality of life, it studies various types of behaviour using the multi-level regression models for 32 countries. In doing so, the book provides insights into how these societies cope with the state’s bureaucratism using Albert Hirschman’s concepts of Exit, Voice and Loyalty. Arguments are then juxtaposed with issues such as rampant corruption, government regulatory principles and measures, and calls by international organisations and non-governmental groups for business firms to be more strictly bound. Given the generally receding tide of democracy in Asian societies, this book will be of interest to academics, business, mass media and other professionals.

Qualitative methods in social research --- Sociology --- Political systems --- sociologie --- politiek --- levenskwaliteit --- Asia

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"Two distinctive kinds of statecraft, war-focused before 1945 (Part I) and manufacturing-technology-focused after 1945 (Part II), have been dominant. Part I is devoted to describe and analyze 1) how modern Japan coped with the coerced opening of the country, 2) how major powers aspired and alternated their hegemonic positions in East Asia in the extended twentieth century, 3) how global politics has been evolving with the three distinctive paradigms: the Westphalian, Philadelphian, and Anti-Utopian. Part II is devoted to describe and analyze 1) how Japan foresees the future on the eve of the Cold War: the metamorphosis from Pax Americana Phase II to Pax Consortis, 2) How Japan envisages regionalism in Asia with sub-nationally and functionally articulated ideas for East and Southeast Asia, 3) Japan's 21st century manifesto of foreign policy is presented as the best mix of classical realism, transformative pragmatism, and liberal internationalism, 4) Japan's manifesto as an Asian state is to deploy manufacturing/technological statecraft on the basis of East Asian peace. Part III examines Japan's international relations as an academic discipline. In light of hyperglobalization, theorizing global politics (as distinguished from international politics) is called for with two latest studies on global quasi- legislative politics and typology of Asian societies, given as examples"--

Globalization --- Japan --- Foreign relations.