JCIE Publications | Looking for Leadership: The Dilemma of Political Leadership in Japan

Looking for Leadership explores the obstacles facing Japan as it looks for greater stability and power in its leadership, and explains how these lessons can also apply to the rest of the world.
JCIE Publications | Japan’s Road to Pluralism: Transforming Local Communities in the Global Era

This publication was the result of a study on the “Transformation of Japanese Communities and the Emerging Local Agenda,” and chronicles how practical and incremental changes in community-level governance point toward Japan’s new road to pluralism.
JCIE Publications | Common Ground and Common Obstacles: US-Japan Women Leaders Dialogue

Highlights of a two-day discussion among American and Japanese women leaders on the shared political, security, and societal challenges facing their countries and on ways to advance women’s leadership at home and in the US-Japan relationship.
JCIE Publications | Presence and Perceptions: The Underpinnings of ASEAN-Japan Relations
This book analyzes the Japanese presence and local perceptions of Japan in four Southeast Asian nations and Japanese views of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
JCIE Publications | Political and Security Cooperation: A New Dimension in ASEAN-Japan Relations?
This book compiles updated versions of papers submitted to the ASEAN-Japan Dialogue Conference in 1984; authors analyze Japan’s expanding role in Southeast Asia in the wake of an American withdrawal from the region that began with the US defeat in the Vietnam War.
JCIE Publications | The Japanese Diet and the US Congress
This book, a comparative study of legislative systems, explains the histories and structures of the bicameral legislatures; in subsequent chapters, it discusses election procedures, financial policies, and power distribution.
JCIE Publications | Survey Report on Binational and Other Research on Economic Themes of Interest to Japan and the United States (JCIE Research Reports: No. 1)
This brief report, written for the 11th US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Education Interchange held in June 1982, surveys and summarizes joint US-Japan policy research carried out at research institutions and universities from 1979 to mid-1982.”
JCIE Publications | Korea-Japan Relations in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities
This book contains essay presented to the 4th Korea-Japan Intellectual Exchange Conference, which coincided with a period of change in both Korea and Japan–in Korea, the inauguration of a new government was seen as a possible harbinger of rapprochement following tense bilateral strains.
JCIE Publications | Selected Bibliography: Studies of Japanese-US Relations
This bibliography is a provisional list of publications on Japan-US relations. Priority was given in compiling the list to material relevant to the research activities of the Japan-US Economic Relations Group.
JCIE Publications | Handbook on Japanese Foreign Policy and Security
This handbook is a compilation of treaties, joint declarations and communiqués, policy statements, and other foreign policy documents that delineate the postwar legal boundaries within which Japan has dealt with other nations.