Sophia University Summer School: Contemporary Japanese Politics

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1 Sophia University Summer School: Contemporary Japanese Politics Dr. Kai Schulze Hittorfstraße Berlin Course Description: This course explores contemporary Japanese politics in comparative perspective. It examines the basic rules and principles that guide Japanese democracy. Rebuilding after the Second World War, Japan experienced a period of high economic growth and became one of the world s leading economies. Economists analyzed the reasons for its success and debated how Western countries could learn from Japan. At the same time, political scientists considered Japan an uncommon democracy because it was ruled by one party, the Liberal- Democratic Party (LDP), from 1955 to Today, political scientists and economists talk about Japan as a country in crisis. The economy is in recession, the political system is shaken by frequent corruption scandals, and frequent efforts towards political and economic reform do not seem effective. The Japanese media refers to the 1990s as Japan s lost decade. The course addresses the basic rules and principles that guide Japanese democracy. What accounts for the success and stability of one-party rule under the LDP? Why did it come to an end in 1993? What caused Japanese phenomenal economic success, and recent economic problems? Is Japanese postwar political and economic development a model for other countries? How do political decision making processes work, and in which ways are political parties and interest groups influencing these processes? How much influence do outsiders, including women and minorities, have on policy-making? What is the role of the opposition in Japanese politics? What causes political corruption in Japan? How will Japanese politics change after the recent reforms? How does Japan approach education, gender relations, and public policy issues? What are the communalities and differences between Japan and other political systems such as the United States? These are the kinds of questions taken up in the course. Course requiremants: To get an assignment for the course, students are required to write a short essay, which is due to the end of the course (last session on Thursday, June 28) and a group presentation. Details will be provided in the first class of the course on Tuesday, June 5. 1

2 Syllabus: Class Topic Literature Week 1: Historical Background Tue., June 5 Wed., June 6 Post-war Japan: - Allied Occupation - Democratic Reconstruction The Establishment of the 1955 System and its demise - Sources for LDP Success - Electoral Politics and Party Competition under the 1955 System - Political Corruption Party Realignment Thu., June Japan s Political 7 Economy Part I: - Japan as a Developmental State - The Role of the Bureaucracy in Industrial Policy- Making - The Roles of Business, Organized Labor, and Other Interest Groups Week 2: Japanese Politics after 1993 Mon., June Japan s Political - Allinson, Gary. Japan s Postwar History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1997, chapter 2 Revival, , pp Dower, John. Embracing Defeat. Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: Norton 1999, chapter 1 Shattered Lives, pp Pempel, T.J. (1998): Regime Shift. Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Chapter 3 From Chaos to Cohesion. Formation of the Conservative Regime, pp , chapter 6 Between Adjustment and Unraveling: Protection and Erosion of the Old Regime, pp Curtis, Gerald (1999): The Logic of Japanese Politics. Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN: , chapter 2 The End of One-Party Dominance, pp Katz, Richard. Japan - The System that Soured. The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe 1998, chapter 5 The Politics of Japanese Economic Policy, pp Pempel, chapter 2 Japan in the 1960s: Conservative Politics and Economic Growth, pp Bullock, Robert. Nokyô: A Short Cultural History, JPRI Working Paper 41, December

3 11 Economy II: - The Bubble Economy - The Banking Crisis - Revitalizing Japan s Economy Tue., June 12 Wed., June 13 Thur., June 14 Reform of Japanese Politics: - Reform Initiatives - New Political Leaders The first return of the LDP: - Neoliberal Reforms - the Koizumi-Era - LDP s loss of power DPJ rule, its demise and the new return to the LDP: - The rise of the DPJ - DPJ rule - Return of Abe - Katz, Richard. Japan - The System that Soured. The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe 1998, chapter 8 Economic Anorexia: From Bubble to Bust, pp Pempel, chapter 5 Japan in the 1990s: Fragmented Politics and Economic Turmoil, pp Curtis, chapter 4 The Politics of Electoral Reform, pp , and - Curtis, chapter 5 The LDP s Return to Power, pp Japanese Political Reform: Progress in Process. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, Asia Program Special Report, January 2004, 37 p - Krauss, Ellis and Robert Pekkanen. Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform: The Discreet Charm of the LDP? Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1 - Krauss, Ellis S ; Pekkanen, Robert J.: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party; The Journal of Asian Studies, 2010, Vol.69(1), pp Yoichi Funabashi and Koichi Nakano; translated by Kate Dunlop, Introduction, pp. 1-7; chapter I: pp. 7-30: The Democratic Party of Japan in power : challenges and failures; London ; New York : Routledge, Arthur Stockwin and Kweku Ampiah. Rethinking Japan : the politics of contested nationalism; Lanham; Boulder; New York; London : Lexington Books, Kushida, Kenji; Phillip Lipscy (eds.): Japan under the DPJ The Politics of Transition and Governance, Stanford: Walter H. 3

4 Week 3: Topics and Issues in Japanese Politics Mon., June 18 Tue., June 19 Wed., June 20 Civil Society and the State: - Does Japan have a Civil Society? - The Influence of Civil Society on Japanese Political Decision-Making Women in Japanese Politics: - Women and Political Office - Politics Towards Women and Gender Equality Minorities and Immigration: - A Homogenous Society? - The Korean Minority in Japan - Immigration 4 Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Pharr, Susan. Conclusion: Targeting by an Activist State: Japan as a Civil Society Model. Schwartz, Frank and Susan Pharr (eds.): The State of Civil Society in Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003, pp Schwartz, Frank. Introduction: Recognizing Civil Society in Japan. In Schwartz, Frank and Susan Pharr (eds.): The State of Civil Society in Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003, pp Eto, Mikio: Women s Leverage on Social Policymaking in Japan. In: PS: Political Science June 2001, pp Garon, Sheldon: Molding the Japanese Minds. The State in Everyday Life. Princeton: Princeton UP 1997, Sexual Politics and the Feminization of Social Management, pp LeBlanc, Robin: Bicycle Citizens. The Political World of the Japanese Housewife. Berkeley: University of California Press 1999, The Ono Campaign. A Regular Housewife in Elite Politics, pp Lie, John. Multiethnic Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2001, The Contemporary Discourse of Japaneseness, pp Pharr, Susan. Burakumin Protest: The Incident at Yôka High School. In Losing Face. Status Politics in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press 1990, pp Fukuoka, Yasunori. Lives of Young Koreans in Japan. Melbourne: Transpacific Press

5 Thu., June 21 Fukushima and its legacy: - The triple catastrophe - Consequences oft he catastrophe - Japan s Energy Policy after 3/11 Week 4: Japan s Foreign Policy Mon., June The Yoshida-Doctrine: 25 - Basics of Japan s post-war foreign policy - Article , Japan s Korean Minority Today, pp , plus case studies Learning to Live with the Japanese, and For the Sake of our Fellow Zainichis, pp (on reserve) - Komai, Hiroshi. Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan. Melbourne: Transpacific Press 2001, Migrant Workers Under the Economic Recession, pp Shipper, Apichai. The Political Construction of Foreign Workers in Japan, Critical Asian Studies 34, 1, 2002, pp Kingston, Jeff: Abe's nuclear renaissance: energy politics in post-3.11 Japan; Critical Asian studies, Jul 2014, Vol.46(3), pp Samuels, Richard J.: Japan s Rhetoric of Crisis: Prospects for Change after 3.11; The Journal of Japanese Studies, 2013, Vol.39(1), pp Berger, Thomas (1993) From sword to chrysanthenum: Japan's culture of antimilitarism, in: International security, Vol.17(4), pp Tue., June 26 Rekishi Mondai: - Yasukuni - Comfort women - Textbook controversy - Pyle, Kenneth B. (2007), The Cold War Opportunity und The Yoshida Doctrine as Grand Strategy, Kapitel 7 und 8 in: Ders., Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose, New York: Public Affairs, S Saaler, Sven (2005), "Historical Revisionism and the Politics of Memory", in: Politics, Memory and Public Opinion. The History Textbook Controversy and Japanese Society. München: Iudicium, S

6 Wed., June 27 Territorial Issues: - Senkaku/Diaoyu - Dokdo/Takeshim a - Northern Territories - Stockwin, Artuhr; Kweku Ampiah (2017): Rethinking Japan: The Politics of Contested Nationalism, chapter 8, pp , London/New York: Routledge. - Gustafsson, Karl (2014): Memory Politics and Ontological Security in Sino-Japanese Relations", in: Asian Studies Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, S Permalink: Kumagai, Naoko (2015) Ontological Security and Japan s Ideological Debate over Compensating Wartime Comfort Women, in: Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 18(2), pp He, Yinan, The search for reconciliation: Sino-Japanese and German polish relations since World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - Reilly, James, Remember history, not hatred: collective remembrance of China s war of resistance to Japan. Modern Asian Studies. 45, Rose, Caroline, Interpreting history in Sino-Japanese relations. London: Routledge - Bukh A (2007) Japan s history textbooks debate: National identity in narratives of victimhood and victimization. Asian Survey 47(5): Buruma I (2009 [1994]) The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany & Japan. London:Atlantic. - Hafeez, Sanaa (2015) The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands crises of 2004, 2010, and 2012: a study of Japanese- Chinese crisis management, in: Asia Pacific review, Vol.22(1), pp Storey, Ian (2013) Japan s maritime security interests in Southeast Asia and the South China Sea dispute, in: Political Science, Vol.65(2), pp Hagström, Linus (2012), Power Shift in East Asia? A Critical Reappraisal of 6

7 Thu., June 28 Security Reforms: - Becoming a normal country - Institutional change in Japan s Security Policy - Secrecy Law Narratives on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Incident in 2010, in: Chinese Journal of International Politics, 5 (3): Moore, Gregory (2014), In Your Face : Domestic Politics, Nationalism, and Face in the Sino-Japanese Islands Dispute, in: Asian Perspective, 38, pp Hirano, Mutsumi (2014), The Maritime Dispute in Sino-Japanese Relations: Domestic Dimensions, in: Asian Perspective, 38, pp Manicom, James (2014), Bridging Troubled Waters - China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Sea, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. - Togo, Kazuhiko (2011) The inside story of the negotiations on the Northern Territories: five lost windows of opportunity, in: Japan Forum, Vol.23(1), p Hara, Kimie (2008), Norms, Structures, and Japan s Northern Territories Policy, in: Yoichiro Sato; Keiko Hirata (Hg.), Norms, Interests, and Power in Japanese Foreign Policy, S Stockwin, Artuhr; Kweku Ampiah (2017): Rethinking Japan: The Politics of Contested Nationalism, chapter 9, pp , London/New York: Routledge. - Nakanishi, Hiroshi (2015), "Reorienting Japan? Security Transformation Under the Second Abe Cabinet", in: Asian Perspective, 39, S Kitaoka, Shinichi (2014) A Proactive Contribution to Peace and the Right of Collective Self-Defense: The Development of Security Policy in the Abe Administration, in: Asia-Pacific Review, Vol.21(2), p Further Readings: History - 7

8 - Bix, Herbert. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. New York: Harper Collins, Dower, John W. War Without Mercy. New York: Pantheon Books, Embracing Defect. New York: W.W. Norton Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, Cambridge: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, Duus, Peter. Party Rivalry and Political Change in Taisho Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Garon, Sheldon. State and Labor in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, Molding the Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Gluck, Carol. Japan s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Era. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Gordon, Andrew. Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, Hicks, George. Comfort Women: Japan s Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War. New York: W.W. Norton, Ienaga, Saburo. Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, New York: Pantheon Books, Ramseyer, Mark and Frances Rosenbluth. The Politics of Oligarchy. Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, Ramseyer, Mark. Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Seidensticker, Edward. Low City, High City. Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake. New York: Random House, 1983 Politics and Public Policy - Broadbent, Jeffrey. Environmental Politics in Japan : Networks of Power and Protest. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Campbell, John. How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, Campbell, John and Naoki Ikegami. The Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan s Low-Cost, Egalitarian System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Curtis, Gerald. The Japanese Way of Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, McKean, Margaret. Environmental Protest and Citizens Politics in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, Pempel, T.J. Policy and Politics in Japan: Creative Conservatism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, Pharr, Susan. Losing Face: Status Politics of Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, Political Women in Japan: The Search for a Place in Political Life. Berkeley: University of California Press,

9 - Ramseyer, Mark and Frances Rosenbluth. Japan s Political Marketplace. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Samuels, Richard. Rich Nation, Strong Army. National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Schwartz, Frank. Advice and Consent: The Politics of Consultation in Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 Political Economy - Anchordoguy, Marie. Computers Inc.: Japan's Challenge to IBM. Cambridge: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, Gao, Bai. Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Gordon, Andrew. The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, Cambridge: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, Grimes, William. Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Johnson, Chalmers. MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, Okimoto, Daniel. Between MITI and the Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Schaede, Ulrike. Cooperative Capitalism: Self-regulation, Trade associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000 Society - Brinton, Mary. Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, Haley, John. Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, Imamura, Anne. Urban Japanese Housewives: at Home and in the Community. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press Upham, Frank. Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987 International Relations of Japan Hook, Glenn et al. (2012), Japans International Relations (3. Aufl.), London/New York: Routledge. Pyle, Kenneth B. (2007), Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose, New York: Public Affairs. Samuels, Richard J. (2007), Securing Japan: Tokyo s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia, Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press. Togo, Kazuhiko (2010), Japan's Foreign Policy, : The Quest for a Proactive Policy, Leiden/ Boston: Brill. (Dieses Buch ist über den FU Katalog als E Book erhältlich.) - Bush, R. C The Perils of Proximity China-Japan Security Relations. Washington D.C.: Brooking Institution Press. 9

10 - Dent, C. M. (ed.) China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia; Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. - Dreyer, J.T Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Sun Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. - Wan, M Sino-Japanese Relations - Interaction, Logic, and Transformation, Stanford: Stanford University Press. - Yahuda, M Sino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain, London/New York: Routledge. 10