Takashi Inoguchi Livres

The book explores the classification of societies based on individual satisfaction across various life domains using factor analysis. It emphasizes an evidence-based, bottom-up approach, challenging traditional views from prominent theorists like Hegel, Marx, and Weber, who often impose top-down categorizations on Asian societies. By critiquing these established perspectives, the author seeks to provide a more nuanced understanding of societal structures and individual fulfillment in an Asian context.

The book explores Japan's transformation from an Eastern nation to a Western one in various domains such as science, industry, and international law, marking significant shifts in its global identity over the decades. It posits that by 2022, amid global challenges like climate change and infectious diseases, Japan will stand out as a beacon of stability, highlighting its unique position in a rapidly changing world.

Exploring political and social attitudes across eighteen countries in Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia, this study utilizes extensive data from the largest cross-national survey on political culture in the last fifty years. It investigates the impact of geographical, religious, and socio-economic factors on political culture, questioning whether a shared political value exists or if significant differences, influenced by 'Asian values,' emerge as these regions modernize.

The book explores Japan's international relations by examining its wartime dynamics before 1945, the impact of globalization during the Cold War era post-1945, and the evolution of international relations as an academic discipline. It provides a comprehensive analysis of Japan's diplomatic strategies and their historical context, offering insights into how these relationships have shaped the nation’s role on the global stage.

Focusing on citizen-state dynamics, this book employs factor analysis of data from an extensive survey across eighteen countries in Asia and Europe. It explores themes of identity, confidence, and satisfaction, providing insights into how individuals perceive and interact with their governments from a grassroots perspective. The analysis aims to illuminate the complexities of civic engagement and state relations in diverse cultural contexts.

Japan's International Relations focuses on three major firstly, Japan's role in relation to its place in the international structure, its economic dynamism and its historical past. Secondly, how Japan's role is manifested in a number of key areas; economic, security, bilateral and regional. Thirdly, Inoguchi analyses the Japan's role in the light of the continuing US-Soviet détente, an enlarged Europe, continuing Pacific dynamism and global economic difficulties.First published in 1991, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

This book provides insightful observations and analyses of Asian citizens’ behaviour associated with requests to get a permit in conditions typically characterized by bureaucratic callousness. Using the AsiaBarometer Survey data on quality of life, it studies various types of behaviour using the multi-level regression models for 32 countries. In doing so, the book provides insights into how these societies cope with the state’s bureaucratism using Albert Hirschman’s concepts of Exit, Voice and Loyalty. Arguments are then juxtaposed with issues such as rampant corruption, government regulatory principles and measures, and calls by international organisations and non-governmental groups for business firms to be more strictly bound. Given the generally receding tide of democracy in Asian societies, this book will be of interest to academics, business, mass media and other professionals.