Maslow / Wirth Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8610-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maslow, Sebastian

Wirth, Christian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Conventions

Introduction: Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State
Christian Wirth and Sebastian Maslow

Part I: Narrating Japan's Social Crisis

1. Japan's Melting Core: Social Frames and Political Crisis Narratives of Rising Inequalities
David Chiavacci

2. Authoritarian Populism in Everyday Life: The Discursive Politics of Demographic and Lifestyle Changes in Japan
Hiroko Takeda

3. Save Our Students? Shifting Subjects of Higher Education Crisis in Japan
Jeremy Breaden

Part II: Narrating Japan's Political and Economic Crises

4. A Crisis of Democracy: Civil Society and Energy Politics Before and After the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Koichi Hasegawa

5. From Leader to Laggard? Crisis Narratives and Structural Reform in Japanese Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
Iris Wieczorek

6. Contradiction and Discontent in Japan: Abenomics and the Failing Politics of Economic Reform
Saori Shibata

Part III: Narrating Japan's National Security Crisis

7. "Failures" and "Crises" in Japanese Foreign Policy: The Democratic Party of Japan's Rule 2009–2012
Paul O'Shea

8. From Ashes to New: The Delegitimization and Comeback of Japan's Official Development Assistance
Raymond Yamamoto

9. A State of Crisis: North Korean Missiles, Abductions, and the Transformation of Postwar Japan
Ra Mason and Sebastian Maslow

10. "The World Is Marveling at Japan!" Japanese Strategies to Avoid its "Crisis of Confidence"
Shogo Suzuki

Conclusion: Narrating Japan's Crisis, Narrating Japan's Rebirth
Sebastian Maslow and Christian Wirth

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sebastian Maslow is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Sendai Shirayuri Women’s College in Japan. He is the coeditor (with Ra Mason and Paul O’Shea) of Risk State: Japan’s Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty. Christian Wirth is Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Griffith University Asia Institute. He is the author of Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics: Securing the Seas, Securing the State.