Japan – December 2012
- Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan : the modern transformation of ‘national learning’ and the formation of scholarly societies / by Michael Wachutka
- Ryosai Kenbo : the educational ideal of ‘good wife, wise mother’ in modern Japan / by Koyama Shizuko ; translated by Stephen Filler
- Poor leadership and bad governance : reassessing presidents and prime ministers in North America, Europe and Japan / edited by Ludger Helms
- Japan and China as charm rivals : soft power in regional diplomacy / Jing Sun
- Cross-national comparisons of social movement unionism : diversities of labour movement revitalization in Japan, Korea and the United States / [edited by] Akira Suzuki
- Motoring the future : VW and Toyota vying for pole position / Engelbert Wimmer with contributions by Arun Mani
- The rise of Asian donors : Japan’s impact on the evolution of emerging donors / edited by Jin Sato and Yasutami Shimomura
- Japan’s security identity : from a peace-state to an international-state / Bhubhindar Singh
- Maritime strategy and national security in Japan and Britain : from the first alliance to post-9/11 / edited by Alessio Patalano
- Fukushima : impacts and implications / by David Elliott
- International education policy in Japan in an age of globalisation and risk / by Robert W. Aspinall
- The premise of fidelity : science, visuality, and representing the real in nineteenth-century Japan / Maki Fukuoka
- Toyota production system : an integrated approach to just-in-time / Yasuhiro Monden
- Taiko boom : Japanese drumming in place and motion / Shawn Bender
- Film and political culture in postwar Japan / Michael H. Gibbs
- Dominant narratives of colonial Hokkaido and imperial Japan : envisioning the periphery and the modern nation-state / Michele M. Mason