This book explains the increasing importance of value politics in Europe and Japan, shedding light on various arenas: social values; parties, elections and poli

For over a hundred years the Japanese have looked to the West for ideas, institutions and technology that would help them achieve their goal of 'national wealth

Both the European Union and Japan have been major beneficiaries and supporters of the liberal international order, first led by the United States since the end

Since the 1950s, Japan-Europe relations have been characterised by a mutual coldness in terms of diplomatic dialogue, punctuated by a number of trade disputes.

The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of shipwrecked Portuguese merchants on Tanegashima Island in southern