We examine the impact of government funding for R&D—and defense-related R&D in
particular—on privately conducted R&D, and its ultimate effect on productivity growth. We …

Dissenting assaults on the conventional wisdom that China's foreign policy became more
'assertive'in 2009–2010 have intensified. In this article I develop this revisionist critique in …

The term 'abnormal'has frequently been used to describe post-war Japan. Together with the
idea that the country will, or should have to,'normalise'its foreign and security policy, it has …

Great symbolic value has been invested in the incident between Japan and the People's
Republic of China (PRC, China) that began in waters surrounding the disputed …

Abstract Since 1945, the United States (US) has served as a focal point of both Left-wing
and Right-wing Japanese nationalism. Both sides argued that the US was an arrogant …

Japan is emerging as a more prominent global and regional military power, defying
traditional categorisations of a minimalist contribution to the US-Japan alliance, maintaining …

Japan is the third-largest economy in the world and a key ally of the United States. Yet the
determinants of Japanese security policy are not well understood. The question of why …

In September 2015, the Japanese government under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe passed a
package of controversial security bills that made it possible for Japan to participate in …

For the last four decades Sino-Japanese relations have been characterized by steadily
growing economic and sociocultural interactions. Yet, greater interdependence has …

This article demonstrates that a national identity defined by a normative commitment to
peace is not necessarily an antidote to remilitarisation and war. More specifically, the article …