Japanese Politics. Tomohito Shinoda is a Japanese scholar in political science. His specialty is Japanese politics and foreign policy, and international relations.　

　

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NEW BOOK IN 2007!!

Nichibei Domei to iu Realism

[Emerging Realism of the Japan-U.S. Alliance], Chikura Shobo, 2007.

Book Review by Prof. Sochi Nakaraoka on Asahi Shimbun

 

Koizumi Diplomacy:

Japan’s Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs

University of Washington Press in 2007.

 

         

 

 

 

The following book received the Best Publication of the Year Award

from the Japan Association of International Security!!!

 

Reisengo no Nihon Gaiko: Anzenhosho no Kokunai Seiji Katei

[Japan’s Post Cold-War Diplomacy: Dometic Political Process of the National Security Policy]

『冷戦後の日本外交：安全保障政策の国内政治過程』

Mineruva Shobo, 2006.

Book Review by Prof. Makoto Iokibe on Mainichi Shimbun

 

 

 

 

 

 “Becoming More Realistic in the Post-Cold War:

Japan’s Changing Media and Public Opinion on National Security,”

Japanese Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No.2,  Fall 2007: pp.171-190.

                       

Book review on Japan’s Agricultural Policy Regime by Aurelia George Mulgan,

Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2007: pp.276-79.

 

 “Nihon no Taigai Intelligence Community “

[Foreign Intelligence Community of Japan]

 Nihon Seiji Kenkyu, Vol.3, No.2, in 2006.

 

“Japan’s Top-Down Policy Process to Dispatch the SDF to Iraq”

JapaneseJournal of Political Science, Vol. 7, No.1, 2006: 1-21.

 

“Japan’s Cabinet Secretariat and Its Emergence As Core Executive,”

Asian Survey, vol. 45, No.5, September/October 2005.

 

“Koizumi Shusho no Ri-da-shippu to Anzen Hosho Seisaku Katei:

Tero Taisaku Tokusoho to Yujikanrenho wo Jirei toshita Doshinen Bunseki”

 [Prime Minister Koizumi’s Leadership and National Security Policy Process:

Concentric Circle Model Analysis on the Anti-Terrorism Legislation and the Contingency Legislation]

 Nihon Seiji Kenkyu, Vol.1, No.2, July 2004.

 

“Koizumi’s Top-Down Leadership in the Anti-Terrorism Legislation:

The Impact of Institutional Changes,”

SAIS Review, Winter/Spring 2003.

 

“Ozawa Ichiro as an Actor in Foreign Policy Making,”

Japan Forum, Vol.16, No.1, 2004..

 

“Governing from the Centre: Core Executive Capacity in Britain and Japan,”

(with Ian Holliday), Japanese Journal of Political Science, Vol.3, 2002.

 

Japan’s Response to Terrorism (available here)

 Paper presented at Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. on Oct. 16, 2001

　

Leading Japan: The Role of the Prime Minister

Published by Praeger Publishing, 2000. (to order)

　

　

"Japan's Political Leadership: The Prime Minister's Power, Style and Conduct of Reform,"

Asian Economic and Political Issues, vol. 2, edited by Frank Columbus, (New York: Nova Publisher, 1999)

　

       "Ozawa Ichiro as a foreign policy actor"

in Nihon Gaiko no Naisei Yoin [Domestic Determinants of Japan's Foreign Policy], (PHP, March 1999), pp. 25-69.

　

"Japan,"

Political Party Systems and Democratic Development in East and Southeast Asia, Volume II: East Asia,

edited by Wolfgang Sachsenroder and Ulrike E. Frings

(Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998), pp.88-131.

　

"The Clinton Administration and American Economy"

Nichibei Doumei Kankei no Hikari to Kage,

edited by Fujimoto Kazumi and Akiyama Kenji (Tokyo: Oozorasha, 1998), pp.109-22.

　

"Cabinet Reinforcement in Hashimoto's Administrative Reform"

Leviathan, Spring 1999.

　

"Japan's Decision Making Under the Coalition Governments: 1993-98,"

Asian Survey, July 1998.

　

Redefining the Partnership: The United States and Japan in East Asia

Edited by Chihiro Hosoya and Tomohito Shinoda,

Published by University Press of America, 1998. (to order)

　

Book Review on Gotoda Masaharu's Jo to Ri

Tokyo Shinbun, July 12, 1998.

　Hashimoto's Leadership: Too Little Too Late

Mainichi Weekly, June 26, 1998.

　

"Hashimoto Should Show His Determination,"

An Article on Japan Editorial, U.S.-Japan Interactive (December 19, 1996)

　

Profile

Professor, IUJ Research Institute,
International University of Japan. Niigata, Japan. January 2007 - Present

Associate Professor, IUJ Research Institute,
International University of Japan. Niigata, Japan. January 1998 – December 2006.

Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, the Center for Japan-U.S. Relations,
the International University of Japan. Niigata, Japan. October 1994 - December 1997.

Ph.D. in International Relations, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University, May 1994.

M.A.in International Relations, the International University of Japan,
Niigata, Japan, March 1986.

B.A. in American Studies, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, March 1983.

　

Books


Japan’s New Diplomacy Style: Kantei’s Top-Down Decision Making in Foreign and Defense Affairs

University of Washington Press, forthcoming in 2006.

 

Taigai Seisaku no Kokunai Seiji Katei: Reisengo no Anzenhosho Seisaku wo Jireini

[Dometic Political Process in Foreign Policy Making: Post Cold-War National Security Policy]

『対外政策の国内政治過程：冷戦後の安全保障政策を事例に』

Mineruva Shobo, forthcoming in 2006.

 

Kantei Gaiko [Foreign policy led by the prime minister’s office]

Asahi Shimbun　October 2004.

『官邸外交』朝日選書、２００４年

Kantei no Kenryoku
[The Power of the Prime Minister's Office]
Chikuma Shinsho, December 1996
『官邸の権力』ちくま新書、1996年12月
書評 by 五百旗頭真、毎日新聞

Sori Daijin no Kenryoku to Shidoryoku
[The Prime Minister's Power and Leadership]
Toyo Keizai Shinpo-sha, 1994.
『総理大臣の権力と指導力　ー　吉田茂から村山富市まで』
東洋経済新報、1994年

America Gikai wo Robii Suru
[Lobbying U.S Congress: Japan-U.S. Relations within Washington]
Tokyo: Japan Times, 1989.
『アメリカ議会をロビーする　ー　ワシントンのなかの日米関係』
ジャパン・タイムズ社、1989年

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