From the welfare state's origins in Europe, the idea of human welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and policy-makers around the world. This is particularly influential where rapid social development is...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Kamakura Period (1185AD-1333AD) -- 3. The Muromachi Period (1333AD-1568AD) & Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568AD-1600AD) -- 4. The Tokugawa Period (1600AD-1868AD) -- 5. The Meiji Period (1868AD-1912AD) -- 6. The Taisho Period (1912AD-1926AD) -- 7. The Showa Period...

This book examines the economic and political rise of China from the perspective of Japan's economic development. Beginning with Japan’s rise to statehood in the Kamakura Period (1185 to 1333) and detailing the evolution of its economy through to 2018, parallels are drawn with the economic...

This book discusses and identifies the modernizing trends, which have changed Southeast Asian countries in varying ways. After an overview of current concepts of modernity, the following chapters introduce issues of education, citizenship and ethnicity, religion, the emergence of the middle...