Economics

1 December 2008
reviews08_national_power

Kokuryoku Kaigi (Conference on National Power: Group Discussion with Kaoru Yosano, Takeo Hiranuma, Taro Aso & Shigeru Ishiba)

By Kazuyuki Hamada

Shodensha, May 2008, 240 pages. Hardback ¥1600. ISBN-13: 978-4396613075

Reviews by Fumiko Halloran

1 December 2008
Intellectual Property and the New Japanese Global Economy

Intellectual Property and the New Japanese Global Economy

By Ruth Taplin
Routledge, 2009, 196 pages. Hardback, £35.00. ISBN 13: 978-0-415-46597-7
Review by Sean Curtin

24 June 2008
dogsdemons

Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan

Edited by Alex Kerr
Penguin Books, 2001, 432 pages, ISBN: 0141010002
Review by Hiroko Kawai (GLOCOM)

1 April 2008
reviews08_rivals

Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade

By Bill Emmott

Allen Lane, London, 2008, 314 pages including notes and index. ISBN -13: 978-1-846-14009-9, price hardback £20.

Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

1 December 2007
kozokaikaku1

“Kozo Kaikaku No Shinjitsu: Takenaka Heizo Daijin Nisshi” (Truth of Structural Reforms: Diary of Minister Takenaka Heizo)

By Heizo Takenaka

Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, December 2006, 344 pages, 1800 yen

Review by Fumiko Halloran

1 December 2007
koizumikantei

“Koizumi Kantei Hiroku” (Confidential Records of the Office of Prime Minister Koizumi)

By Isao Iijima

Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha (Japan Economic Journal), December 2006, 334 pages, 1800 yen

Review by Fumiko Halloran

1 October 2007
taplin

Japanese Telecommunications: Market and Policy in Transition

By Ruth Taplin, and Masako Wakui (Eds)
Routledge, 2006, 288 pages, ISBN: 0415368030
Review by Sean Curtin

1 August 2007
asean-japan

ASEAN-Japan Cooperation: A Foundation for East Asian Community

By Tadashi Yamamoto and Charles Morrison, et. al.
Japan Center for International Exchange, 2003, 236 pages, ISBN: 4-88907-071-0
Review by Tomohiko Taniguchi

1 August 2007
chinaglobalenergy

China and the Global Energy Crisis – Development and Prospects for China’s Oil and Natural Gas

By Tatsu Kambara and Christopher Howe

Edward Elgar publishing, 2007, 160 pages, ISBN-13: 9781845429669

Review by J. Sean Curtin

1 June 2007
britainandjapan

Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century: One Hundred Years of Trade and Prejudice

Edited by Philip Towle and Nobuko Margaret Kosuge

I.B. Tauris, London and New York, 2007, 236 pages including index, bibliography and end notes, ISBN: 978 1 85411 415 2, £47.50.

Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi