Rikki Kersten - The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Essays in Honour of J.A.A. Stockwin

Arthur Stockwin, as much as any Westerner living, made the Japanese Left a compelling concern for the political scientist and historian alike. This Oxford Festschrift seeks to honour him with a set of essays that reach beyond all previous studies of this great movement.

Part I focuses on left-wing thought. Christopher Goto-Jones probes the texts and reputations of two-left wing martyrs of Imperial Japan: Jun Tosaka and Kiyoshi Miki; Rikki Kersten retraces the career of Hitoshi As, the leftist leader who controversially embraced the Army as an agency of anti-capitalist revolution; and David Williams mobilises Hobbes, Carl Schmitt and Foucault to dissect the Lefts understanding of constitutional sovereignty.

Part II addresses the post-war scene. Robert Aspinall examines the rise and fall of Nikky-s, the militant teachers union; Koichi Nakano reveals the Lefts impact on conservative efforts to privatize the state sector; and Sarah Hyde recounts the strange but sudden death of parliamentary socialism.

In Part III, Settling Accounts, Leonard J.Schoppa highlights the embrace of the free market by former leftist politicians; Williams returns the study of the Japanese Left to its critical roots via a post 9/11 critique of American Empire; and Junji Banno offers a passionate last judgment on the fate of the Left in Japanese politics.

Rikki Kersten is Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is the editor of our Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian History and Politics.

David Williams, one of Europes leading thinkers on modern Japan, is the author of Japan: Beyond the End of History, Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science and Defending Japans Pacific War, all published by Routledge.

Series editor: Rikki Kersten

Through addressing ideas about history and politics in the modern period, and by encouraging comparative and inter-disciplinary work amongst East Asian specialists, the Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian History and Politics seeks to combine Area Studies focus on primary sources in the vernacular, with a distinct disciplinary edge.

The Leiden Series focuses on philosophy, politics, political thought, history, the history of ideas, and foreign policy as they relate to modern East Asia, and will emphasise theoretical approaches in all of these fields. As well as single-authored volumes, edited or multi-authored submissions that bring together a range of country specialisations and disciplines are welcome.

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The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy
Essays in honour of J.A.A.Stockwin
Edited by Rikki Kersten and David Williams

Essays in honour of J.A.A.Stockwin

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The left in the shaping of Japanese democracy: essays in honour of J.A.A.Stockwin/edited by
Rikki Kersten and David Williams. p. cm.(The Leiden series in modern East Asian politics and history; 2) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Political cultureJapan. 2. SocialismJapan. 3. JapanPolitics and government19454. JapanForeign relations. I. Stockwin, J.A.A. (James Arthur Ainscow) II. Kersten, Rikki, 1960- III. Williams, David. IV.
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JQ1681.L44 2005
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Christopher Goto-Jones is Associate Professor of the History of Ideas in Modern Japan at Leiden University.

Rikki Kersten is Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University.

David Williams is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Cardiff University.

Robert W.Aspinall is Professor in the Department of Social Systems, Shiga University.

Koichi Nakano is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sophia University.

Sarah Hyde is Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations of Japan at the University of Kent.

Leonard J.Schoppa is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

Junji Banno is Emeritus Professor at Tokyo University.

Summing up the achievements of ones professor, mentor and friend seems an incredibly cheeky thing for a student to do. And yet, as most people in Japanese Studies will agree, Arthur Stockwin has made it rather easy. In terms of tangible achievements, publications, the numbers of DPhil and PhD graduates who now work both within and outside academe, teaching and professional administrative roles, even the brute compilation of lists of each of these activities, will testify to his professional contribution to Japanese Studies. The hard thing is to try to convey, to those who have not worked with Arthur during his career, how the breadth of his humanity has made these other achievements resonate in our own professional lives. This is not about being a nice guy; rather, what Arthur has represented for many of us is a profound intertwining of value integrity with impeccable scholarship. Arthur Stockwin is a scholar who knows where he stands as a human being, and he has built his scholarship and teaching around this, while retaining his empirical, scholarly quality. This is something to which most of us aspire, especially once we have met him and worked with him. To pre-empt the thrust of this assessment of his professional career, this is his lasting contribution to the field.

The tangible contributions almost speak for themselves, though they are worth examining, to show what is possible in one professional life. This book began with a different intention, namely to assess the field of Japanese political science, and approaches to the subject, during the course of Arthurs career. Ultimately, this found expression in one of Arthurs most recent publications, the