Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China

by Sheila A. Smith

Book Overview

No country feels China's rise more deeply than Japan. Through intricate case studies of visits by Japanese politicians to the Yasukuni Shrine, conflicts over the boundaries of economic zones in the East China Sea, concerns about food safety, and strategies of island defense, Sheila A. Smith explores the policy issues testing the Japanese government as it tries to navigate its relationship with an advancing China.

Smith finds that Japan's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023116789X
• ISBN13: 9780231167895
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher