Recently added articles from Journal of East Asian Studies:
Japanese Lower House campaigns in transition: manifest changes or fleeting fads?
Jan 01, 2009; ... Electioneering for the Japanese Lower House has undergone significant changes in recent years. While voter mobilization strategies still figure prominently in the local-level campaigns of individual candidates, political parties increasingly use voter-chasing strategies at the national ...
Democratization and government education provision in East Asia.(Report)
May 01, 2008; ... Although it is commonly believed that democracy promotes public services such as education, efforts have just started to evaluate empirically how the recent trend of democratization affects education services in the developing world. This article reports on the first regionwide ...
The origins of regional autonomy in Indonesia: experts and the marketing of political interests.(Essay)
May 01, 2008; ... This article argues that, in contrast with prevalent choice-theoretic accounts of institutional origins in new democracies, the passage of Indonesia's regional autonomy laws in 1999 took place despite the interests of powerful political actors rather than because of them. Lacking the past ...
Interest groups in North Korean politics.(Essay)
May 01, 2008; ... North Korea is often characterized as some form of highly centralized rule: totalitarian, posttotalitarian, corporatist, or personalistic. This article argues that much of the confusion around understanding North Korea's actions stems from misplaced models. Much of the current thinking on ...
Assessing North Korean nuclear intentions and capacities: a new approach.(Essay)
May 01, 2008; ... This article develops a novel assessment of the nuclear program of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Using a theory-driven approach rooted in comparative foreign policy analysis, the article undermines two common assumptions about the DPRK nuclear threat: first, that the North ...
North Korea and the World: a bibliography of books and URLs in English, 1997-2007.(Bibliography)(Website list)
May 01, 2008; ... This survey of books in English on North Korea, 1997-2007, identifies nearly 240 titles--mostly by US authors but also by authors in Australia, Europe, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Russia. The books fall into eleven categories: history and culture; the Korean War revisited; the DPRK ...
Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier.(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier. By C. Patterson Giersch. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. 308 pp. $49.95. Cloth. The scene: an ethnically diverse and moderate-sized crescent-shaped area at the southwest tip of Yunnan province. The ...
One Worm of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective.(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... One Worm of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective. By Gregory J. Kasza. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 189 pp. $35.00. Cloth. Gregory Kasza's One World of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective is a long-overdue, comprehensive study of Japan's welfare policies ....
Sino-Japanese Relations: Facing the Past, Looking to the Future?(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Sino-Japanese Relations: Facing the Past, Looking to the Future? By Caroline Rose. London: Routledge, 2005. 175 pp. $65.00. Cloth. A smooth Sino-Japanese relationship helps sustain a peaceful and prosperous East Asia, but recent years have witnessed plenty of turbulence between ...
Cross Currents: Regionalism and Nationalism in Northeast Asia.(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Cross Currents: Regionalism and Nationalism in Northeast Asia. Edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel C. Sneider. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. 304 pp. $24.95. Paper. Through a compendium of diverse articles, Cross Currents assesses Northeast Asia's key ...
Unequal Allies? United States Security and Alliance Policy Toward Japan, 1945-1960.(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Unequal Allies? United States Security and Alliance Policy Toward Japan, 1945-1960. By John Swenson-Wright. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. 349 pp. $60.00. Cloth. It is the central thesis of author John Swenson-Wright in Unequal Allies? United States Security and ...