Dear Forum Members


I want to announce my new book:


Japan (Polity Press) The link is here: http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509525447



A 30% discount is available through the publisher using promo code BAB18 until end of this year (hopefully longer)


Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Bouncing Back?

Chapter 2 Japan, Inc.

Chapter 3 American Alliance

Chapter 4 Lost Decades and Disasters

Chapter 5 Dissent

Chapter 6 Abe's Japan


It's a handy pocket size book of 45,000 words analyzing Japan's key economic, security, political and social issues targeting undergrads and a general readership.


"Jeff Kingston's Japan cuts through much modern hype and manifold misconceptions to show in a cool but lively way how the country's current political, social, strategic and economic situation has evolved in the seven postwar decades and the real state of Japan today. There is no better way to understand where this always intriguing, vitally important and often pioneering country is heading than to read Kingston."
Bill Emmott, Chairman, Japan Society of the UK and author of The Fate of the West



"Much of the world seems to have forgotten Japan, being mesmerised by the spectacular rise of China. Jeff Kingston, however, a long-term resident of Japan, shows in this engagingly written book that the Land of the Rising Sun still matters deeply, and that, despite its many problems (not least demographic), Japan is making a comeback and in many fields rebounding in unexpected ways. The book is both informative and remarkably entertaining."
Arthur Stockwin, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford