Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

Japan's Interventionist State provides a detailed examination of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and its role in promoting, protecting, and preserving the regime of agricultural support and protection. This account is integral to the author's extended and multidimensional explanation for why Japan continues to provide high levels of assistance to its farmers and why it persists in blocking...

This book examines the transnational circulation of knowledge between Russia and Japan from the early Meiji era to the present day, reconfiguring the East-West paradigm both in terms of socio-geographical divides and cultural and political tensions within both cultures. Featuring chapters from the fields of literature, history, philosophy, film, and social and political thought, the case studies give interdisciplinary examples...