Japanese and Russian Politics (eBook)

This volume offers a comparative analysis of Japanese and Russian politics in the 2010s, examining both domestic dimensions and foreign policy.

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

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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-a-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.