About Takashi Inoguchi
Takashi Inoguchi is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Tokyo, and president of the University of Niigata Prefecture. His books include Japanese Politics: An Introduction (TransPacific Press, 2005); (edited with Jean Blondel) Citizens and the State: Attitudes in Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2010); and (edited with Ian Marsh) Globalisation, Public Opinion and the State: Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2011). His website is here
Articles by Takashi Inoguchi
America and Japan: the political is personal
The idea of a “special relationship” used to be an Anglo-American monopoly. No one would deny the intimacy of the connection between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. But in his characteristically nonchalant fashion, Reagan also extended to Asia the principle he embraced in Europe.
An ordinary power, Japanese-style
Japan is learning a new geopolitics. Its sense of identity, capacity, and relation to the world is shifting amidst great economic, military and regional pressures. But what kind of foreign policy model will Japan choose? One of the country’s foremost analysts explores the possible answers to a reopened question.
The Japanese decision
Why has the Japanese government decided to send armed forces to Iraq to assist in its economic recovery? A leading scholar of Japanese politics places the decision within the context of the country’s search for a self-defined global role over the past generation.
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