Japanese and Russian Politics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Japan and Russia: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

   1. Japan and Russia: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

      • Takashi Inoguchi

      Pages 1-13

3. Japanese Politics: Leaders, Political Parties, and Economic Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Politics of Swings

      • Takashi Inoguchi

      Pages 17-31

   3. Political Parties in Disarray

      • Dmitry Streltsov

      Pages 33-52

4. Russian Politics: Leaders, Kremlin and Politics of Vperyod (Forward)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Politics of Volatility

      • William Smirnov

      Pages 55-71

   3. Politics of Dictatorship and Pluralism

      • Nobuo Shimotomai

      Pages 73-89

5. Japan and Russia Economics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Economics Takes Command

      • Yutaka Harada

      Pages 93-111

   3. Politics of Modernization

      • Liubov Karelova

      Pages 113-131

6. Japanese Foreign Policy: “searching for an Honorable Place in the World”

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Continuity in Alliance

      • Shigeki Hakamada

      Pages 135-143

   3. Foreign Policy in Statu Nascendi

      • Sergey V. Chugrov

      Pages 145-161

7. Russian Foreign Policy: Vperyod (Russia Go Forward) Eastward?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Improvising at Kremlin

      • Akio Kawato

      Pages 165-183

   3. Pragmatic Realism

      • Sergey Oznobishchev

      Pages 185-206

8. Back Matter

   Pages 207-224

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This volume offers a comparative analysis of Japanese and Russian politics in the 2010s, examining both domestic dimensions and foreign policy. A bi-national collaborative effort, the volume is structured to offer perspectives on each country from both Russian and Japanese scholars. An introduction by Takashi Inoguchi gives a historical overview of the two countries' paths to development as 'late comers' vis-à-vis the West in the late nineteenth century. The analysis that follows reveals that Japan and Russia have come to acquire genuinely striking contrasting features: frequent leadership change despite extraordinary societal stability and continuity in Japan and infrequent leadership change despite extraordinary ups and downs in Russia.

• Comparative analysis
• dictatorship
• economic policy
• foreign policy
• Policy
• Political Parties
• politics

• Tokyo, Japan

  Takashi Inoguchi

Takashi Inoguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan Dmitry V Streltsov, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia William Smirnov, Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of National Economy and Civil Service, Russia Nobuo Shimotomai, Hosei University, Japan Yutaka Harada, Waseda University, Japan Karelova Liubov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Hakamada Shigeki, University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan Sergei Chugrov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Akio Kawato, Waseda University, Japan Sergey Oznobishchev, Institute for Strategic Assessments, Russia

Policies and ethics