Dear colleagues,
We would like to alert you to the publication of a special issue on Japanese crisis management capabilities in the Japanese Journal of Political Science (Volume 14, Issue 02, June 2013). The contributions are as follows:

Japan's Crisis Management amid Growing Complexity: In
Search of New Approaches
ALEXANDRA SAKAKI and KERSTIN LUKNER

Crisis Management, LDP, and DPJ Style
ELLIS KRAUSS
The Crisis Management Capability of Japan's Self Defense Forces for UN Peacekeeping, Counter-Terrorism, and Disaster Relief KATSUMI ISHIZUKA

Financial Crisis Fatigue? Politics behind Japan's Post-Global Financial Crisis Economic Contraction SAORI N. KATADA

DPJ's Political Leadership in Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident TOMOHITO SHINODA

A Normal Accident or a Sea-Change? Nuclear Host Communities Respond to the 3/11 Disaster DANIEL P. ALDRICH

Please see the journal site for further information:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JJP

Best regards,
Kerstin Lukner and Alexandra Sakaki (guest editors)