Collected Writings of J. A. A. Stockwin: Part 1(Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan)

The volume opens with a detailed autobiographical sketch of the author's original 'meeting with Japan', which began in 1961after taking up a post at ANU, Canberra (the result of a successful response to an advert in the Manchester Guardian). After twenty-one years in Australia, Arthur Stockwin moved back to the UK to take the chair of the then recently-established Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies. He was to be in post there also for twenty one years, his retirement coinciding with publication of his Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan (Routledge, 2003).

Table of Contents:
Introduction PART I: JAPANESE ELECTIONS 1. Electing the Kyoto Governor: Travail of the Opposition Asia Pacific Forum, 1974 2. Shifting Alignments in Japanese Party Politics: The April 1974 Election for Governor of Kyoto Prefecture Asian Survey, 1974 3. Democracy and Elections: Japan Bogdanor and Butler, Democracy and Elections, 1983 4. Electoral Pressures for Change: The Effect of Political Reform Australian[1]Japan Research Centre, Pacific Economic Papers, 2000 5. Japan’s General Elections of June 2000: Revolution or Ripple Studies on Japan’s Changing Political Economy, 2001 PART II JAPANESE POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM 6. ‘Positive Neutrality’—The Foreign Policy of the Japanese Socialist Party Asian Survey, 1962 7. The Japan Communist Party in the Sino-Soviet Dispute: From Neutrality to Alignment The Disintegrating Monolith, 1965 8. The Japanese Socialist Party under New Leadership Asian Survey, 1966 9. The Communist Party of Japan Problems of Communism, 1967 10. Japan Dissent, 1968 11. Political Parties in Postwar Japan World Review, 1969 12. The Japanese Opposition: Political Irrelevance or Wave of the Future? Australian Outlook, 1971 13. The Ultra-Right Wing in Japanese Politics World Review, 1972 14. The Rights and Lefts of Japanese Politics Melbourne, Japanese Studies Centre, 1983 15. Japan: The Leader-Follower Relationship in Parties Political Parties, 1987 16. Political Parties and Political Opposition Ishida and Krauss (eds) Democracy in Japan, 1989 17. Politics, Power and Parties in Japan Philipps-Universität Marburg, 1990 18. Challenge and Response, or Challenge and Failure to Respond?: The Nihon Shakait? under Doi Takako ANU, JSAA, 1991 19. Japan’s Opposition Parties and Prospects for Political Change Japan Foundation Newsletter, 1991 20. From JSP to SDPJ: The New Wave Society and the ‘New’ Nihon Shakait? Japan Forum, 1991 21. On Trying to Move Mountains: The Political Career of Doi Takako Japan Forum, 1994 PART III: THE JAPANESE POLITICAL SYSTEM AND POLITICAL SYSTEM REFORM 22. Perceiving Japanese Politics Dissent, 1967 23. Is Japan a Post-Marxist Society? Pacific Affairs, 1968 24. Alternative Politics for Japan? Australia’s Neighbours, 1973–4 25. Is Japan Becoming Harder to Govern? Japanese History and Politics, 1980 26. Understanding Japanese Politics Social Analysis, 1980 27. Japan’s Political Crisis of 1980 Australian Outlook, 1981 28. Japanese Politics: New Directions or the Story as Before? Asian Affairs, 1983 29. The Occupation: Continuity or Change? Asian and African Studies, 1984 30. Japan as a Political Model? East Asia, 1984 31. Dynamic and Immobilist Aspects of Japanese Politics; Parties, Politicians and the Political System; Conclusions Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan,1988 32. New Directions in Japanese Politics Leaders and Leadership in Japan, 1996 33. The Need for Reform in Japanese Politics The Vitality of Japan, 1997 34. Deciphering Japanese Politics Asia Pacific Review, 1998 35. Converging or Diverging? The Politics of Japan and Britain Neesima Lectures Series, 1998 36. Do Political Parties Matter? Reflections on Japan and Europe Neesima Lectures Series, 1998 PART IV: POLITICAL FACTIONALISM 37. Faction and Ideology in Postwar Japanese Socialism Papers on Modern Japan, 1965 38. A Comparison of Political Factionalism in Japan and India Australian Journal of Politics and History, 1970 39. Factionalism in Japanese Political Parties Japan Forum, 1989

About the Author :
J.A.A. Stockwin, formerly Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies and former Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College