This work records a dialogue between two eminent Japanese scholars - a political historian and a political scientist - regarding Japan's modern political history. It draws disturbing parallels between the 1930s and the recent policy trajectory of the Abe government, in which relations with Japan's immediate neighbours have seriously deteriorated.
Gavan McCormack's latest work argues that Abe Shinzo's efforts to re-engineer the Japanese state may fail, but his radicalism continues to shake the country and have consequences not easy to predict. Its significance will be recognized by those researching contemporary world politics, international relations and the history of modern Japan.
The USA, post-1945, has deployed public diplomacy to lead the global fight against sexual and labour trafficking. This book traces how the US has named and shamed Japan to improve its human rights performance as measured by US annual listings of trafficking activity.
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