Abstract :
The quantity and quality of Japanese political studies in China are influenced
by political developments in China and Japan, Sino-Japanese relations, and academic
development of political science. After the collapse of Japan’s bubble economy and the
end of the LDP’s long rule in the early 1990s, many Chinese scholars diverted their
attention from economic issues and took more interest in Japanese political studies.
Political issues such as the resurgence of nationalism, the rise of right-wing forces,
the end of the ‘1955 system’, the political origin of long and heavy recessions, the
‘normal state’, national strategy, and foreign policies have been discussed and debated.
New approaches and perspectives such as the political pluralist approach, the new
institutional approach, the ecological approach and the political process approach
have been used. It is imperative to overcome the institutional, political, and financial
problems in order to improve the state and raise the quality of Japanese political studies
in China.
