Yasuo Takao
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 251007 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Yasuo Takao |
| NOMBRES | Yasuo |
| APELLIDO | Takao |
| FIRMA | TAKAO Y |
| AFILIACIONES | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8425-8476 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Underrepresentation of Women in Japanese Politics with Comparative Reference to Taiwan
This article examines the underrepresentation of women in Japanese politics through a comparative analysis of two cases: Japan's lower house in the National Diet and Taiwan's unicameral legislature. Although both cases adopted the mixed-member majoritarian (MMM) electoral system-Japan in 1994 and Taiwan in 2005-their outcomes have diverged significantly. While female representation in Taiwan surged following electoral reform, Japan's progress has…
Understanding fertility policy through a process-oriented approach
This article examines Japan’s policymaking capacities necessary to address the issue of low fertility, while harnessing the process-oriented theories of policy studies. The author asks why Japan’s policy to increase fertility has not worked as well as some other countries whose efforts have proven more successful. The focus of this study is on process-oriented capacities, which can be defined as an ability of actors involved to avoid conflicts an…
Compact City and Mayoral Entrepreneurship
Controlling urban sprawl are the overarching challenges facing cities worldwide. This article delves into the pivotal role of policy entrepreneurship throughout the planning and implementation phases of compact city initiatives. Drawing insights from the experiences of Aomori City and Toyama City in Japan, this study scrutinizes the drivers behind the shift toward urban compactness and its consequent outcomes. The incorporation of policy studies …
Is Post-Fukushima Reform Making Japan Safer? From Shared Responsibility to Collective Accountability
Ten years after the Fukushima disaster, the nuclear safety regulation system in Japan has gradually moved from the exclusionary process of policy making, based on hierarchically organized policy, to a decentralized and open process of policy making whose competence is divided beyond the pre-given political actors. Yet policy making and implementation need to bring together multiple stakeholders to work in concert to achieve a desired outcome of n…
The Civic and Political Participation of Non-Citizen Residents in Japan
This article examines the roles that local actors play in driving a transition to multicultural co-living, drawing on the lessons learned from the experience of two Japanese municipalities in facilitating civic and political participation by non-citizens. It seeks to ascertain the factors that drive the transition to forms of local inclusion that foster the rights of foreign nationals to civic and political participation. Effective transitions to…
Intergenerational Politics in an Aging Society
Japan’s population is aging faster than any other nation’s, producing many more older voters, and raising an important question related to intergenerational equity. Do older voters prioritize their short-term self-interest at the expense of other generations? I find that the older voters in Japan are surprisingly less self-interested—even less than similarly aged voters in other advanced economies—in maximizing their benefits as service consumers…
Low-carbon leadership
National Integration and Local Power in Japan
First published in 1999, this book offers a new study of local government in Japan. There is an enormous amount of information about Japanese local government that has not yet appeared in English. With the author’s local familiarity, elected local officials and local residents have been extraordinarily open and forthcoming. This allows a rethinking of the topic by mobilising a multitude of solid factual material. Japan has dealt with the dramatic…
Accounting for the Rigidity of Japan’s Nuclear Energy Policy
This article examines the seven decades since the end of World War II and the evolution of Japan’s nuclear energy policy from the perspective of both domestic/international structures and coalition building processes. The objective is to identify the causal mechanism that has produced the rigidity of today’s Japanese nuclear energy policy. This study takes an analytically eclectic approach. Viewing the single puzzle of policy rigidity through two…
Japan's Agenda Setting to Lower the Voting Age from 20 to 18
What age a state designates as appropriate for voting rights raises a range of democratic and empirical issues. The lowering of the voting age in Japan in 2015 was the biggest expansion of the country’s democratic franchise since 1945, yet it happened in an abrupt manner. Lowering the voting age was not a significant issue among the Japanese public until the mid-2000s and the government began supporting the move officially only in 2014. Why then?…
Subnational participation in extra-national policy solutions
The growing challenges of environment and sustainable development stretch across scales of geographic space and require action at multiple levels of jurisdictions, such as individual level, community level, national level, and global level. Multilevel governance and cross-scale coordination will open up opportunities for a variety of stakeholders to participate in decision-making. While potentially increasing the capacity of governance, the cross…
The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption
This article will examine the determinants of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) policy adoption in Shibuya, one of the twenty-three city wards of Tokyo, by taking an actor-specific approach to the first case of officially recognized same-sex partnership in Japan. How did the sexual minority issue become the subject of official agendas? How did actors both inside and outside the municipal government seize agenda-setting opportunities …
Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance
1. The transformation of Japan's environmental policy -- 2. The rigidity of Japan's nuclear energy policy : state-centric gate-keeping -- 3. The state of local capacity building : decentralized policy making -- 4. Tokyo's metropolitan cap-and-trade : policy learning and diffusion -- 5. Shiga's cooperation with UNEP : transnational sectoral network -- 6. Kitakyushu's environmental business : utility-based transnationalism within norms -- 7. Yokoha…
Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance
Policy learning and diffusion of Tokyo's metropolitan cap-and-trade
The process of adopting policy ideas is extremely complex and requires a close examination of the political context in which the idea is learned, articulated, contested, adapted, and accepted by agents, both individual and collective. Why and how was the world's first urban scheme of mandatory reduction of total emissions adopted in Tokyo and not elsewhere? What might cause diffusion of this idea in other urban areas? One key explanation behind t…
Local Levels of Participation in Japan's Foreign Aid and Cooperation
This study will examine the determinants of local Japanese government involvement in decentralized international cooperation by taking an actor-specific approach to three outstanding cases: Shiga Prefecture, Kitakyushu City, and Yokohama City. It will look beneath the aggregate relationships to more qualitative evidence of localized motives for Japanese cooperation with developing countries
Recommended for Further Reading
explores the political roles of women, including the possibilities for alternative approaches to improve representative democracy in Japan.Takao explains that women's engagement in politics increased in the 1990s, particularly with the 1999 Basic Law of Gender-Equality in Society and the "unprecedented success of grassroots campaigns to increase women's share of seats in local elections."In addition, the one-party dominance of the Liberal Democra…
The transformation of Japan's environmental policy
In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was known as the leading innovator in environmental policy. Other OECD countries found much to emulate. Two decades later, Japan appears to have lost its innovative edge to other OECD countries. Why has Japan fallen from its position as the global leader? How should Japan regain its reputation? Possible causes of the rise and fall of Japanese environmental policy are examined by exploring its domestic policy subsyste…
Making Climate Change Policy Work at the Local Level
This study will examine the state of local capacity building for local climate adaptation in Japan. Climate mitigation needs to be led by both global strategies and national mandates in an integrated way, but climate change impacts are manifested locally and adaptive capacity is determined by local conditions. The article first lays out the basic components of local capacity for decentralized policy making and assesses the current local capacity …
Reinvigorating the transnational links of sub-national governments between Australia and Japan with special reference to Western Australia–Hyogo sister-state relations
The study of transnational links between sub-national governments is a lacuna in the field of international relations yet the issue on inter-sub-national government cooperation has recently gained greater importance at the international level. Since the 1992 Earth Summit recognition of sub-national authorities as key players in global sustainable development strategies, the importance of decentralised cooperation between sub-national governments …
Aging and Political Participation in Japan
Population aging is not just the socioeconomic issue of Japan's future, but the political issue as well. The sharing of resources for an aging society will reshape policy strategies and democracy-building. This article will examine the direction and nature of participation by the elderly in the political process of Japanese society
Women in Japanese Local Politics
I think that we need to elect female representatives to national assemblies to address women's issues and into local assemblies to help solve community problems surrounding children and the family." Ichikawa Fusae"Increasing the number of female representatives alone will neither change politics nor increase the autonomy of the local community. Women who belong to existing parties and organizations that pursue vested interests have been unable to…
Reinventing Japan
The book is about new dynamic forces that are driving change in Japan. It is developed around two key concepts of civil society and social capital. The focus is on pathways to Japan's social renewal t
Japanese women in grassroots politics
The 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women highlights the importance of equal participation of women in public life. Since the early 1960s, women in Japan have voted in elections at significantly higher rates than men. However, Japanese women's equal participation in policy formulation and decision making lags far behind major democracies. Gender equality is stated under the Japanese Constitution, but s…
Democratic Renewal by "Digital" Local Government in Japan
Low-carbon leadership
Foreigners' Rights in Japan
This article examines the impact of Japanese local government's initiatives for promoting the protection of foreigners' rights. Evident in this study is the premise that local government is the single most important factor for promoting foreigners' rights in Japan
The Rise of the "Third Sector" in Japan
Research Article| April 01 2001 THE RISE OF THE "THIRD SECTOR" IN JAPAN Yasuo Takao Yasuo Takao Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2001) 41 (2): 290–309. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2001.41.2.290 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption
This article will examine the determinants of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) policy adoption in Shibuya, one of the twenty-three city wards of Tokyo, by taking an actor-specific approach to the first case of officially recognized same-sex partnership in Japan. How did the sexual minority issue become the subject of official agendas? How did actors both inside and outside the municipal government seize agenda-setting opportunities …
Making Climate Change Policy Work at the Local Level
This study will examine the state of local capacity building for local climate adaptation in Japan. Climate mitigation needs to be led by both global strategies and national mandates in an integrated way, but climate change impacts are manifested locally and adaptive capacity is determined by local conditions. The article first lays out the basic components of local capacity for decentralized policy making and assesses the current local capacity …
Policy learning and diffusion of Tokyo's metropolitan cap-and-trade
The process of adopting policy ideas is extremely complex and requires a close examination of the political context in which the idea is learned, articulated, contested, adapted, and accepted by agents, both individual and collective. Why and how was the world's first urban scheme of mandatory reduction of total emissions adopted in Tokyo and not elsewhere? What might cause diffusion of this idea in other urban areas? One key explanation behind t…
Local Levels of Participation in Japan's Foreign Aid and Cooperation
This study will examine the determinants of local Japanese government involvement in decentralized international cooperation by taking an actor-specific approach to three outstanding cases: Shiga Prefecture, Kitakyushu City, and Yokohama City. It will look beneath the aggregate relationships to more qualitative evidence of localized motives for Japanese cooperation with developing countries
Welfare State Retrenchment – The Case of Japan
The purpose of this article is to examine the implications for welfare state retrenchment of central-local financial relations. In the post-war period, welfare state expansion has been a dominant theme in the development of central-local government relations in advanced industrial democracies. By the 1980s, however, nearly all OECD member countries had resorted to deficit financing as stagnant tax revenues combined with political pressure for inc…
Underrepresentation of Women in Japanese Politics with Comparative Reference to Taiwan
This article examines the underrepresentation of women in Japanese politics through a comparative analysis of two cases: Japan's lower house in the National Diet and Taiwan's unicameral legislature. Although both cases adopted the mixed-member majoritarian (MMM) electoral system-Japan in 1994 and Taiwan in 2005-their outcomes have diverged significantly. While female representation in Taiwan surged following electoral reform, Japan's progress has…
Intergenerational Politics in an Aging Society
Japan’s population is aging faster than any other nation’s, producing many more older voters, and raising an important question related to intergenerational equity. Do older voters prioritize their short-term self-interest at the expense of other generations? I find that the older voters in Japan are surprisingly less self-interested—even less than similarly aged voters in other advanced economies—in maximizing their benefits as service consumers…
The transformation of Japan's environmental policy
In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was known as the leading innovator in environmental policy. Other OECD countries found much to emulate. Two decades later, Japan appears to have lost its innovative edge to other OECD countries. Why has Japan fallen from its position as the global leader? How should Japan regain its reputation? Possible causes of the rise and fall of Japanese environmental policy are examined by exploring its domestic policy subsyste…
Aging and Political Participation in Japan
Population aging is not just the socioeconomic issue of Japan's future, but the political issue as well. The sharing of resources for an aging society will reshape policy strategies and democracy-building. This article will examine the direction and nature of participation by the elderly in the political process of Japanese society
Japanese women in grassroots politics
The 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women highlights the importance of equal participation of women in public life. Since the early 1960s, women in Japan have voted in elections at significantly higher rates than men. However, Japanese women's equal participation in policy formulation and decision making lags far behind major democracies. Gender equality is stated under the Japanese Constitution, but s…
Participatory Democracy in Japan's Decentralization Drive
Research Article| October 01 1998 Participatory Democracy in Japan's Decentralization Drive Yasuo Takao Yasuo Takao Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (10): 950–967. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645645 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Ci…
The Welfare State and its Effect on Municipal Government in Japan
Since the end of World War II, the ever-increasing role of government in advanced democratic nations has resulted in a massive organizational growth in the public sector. The impact of the welfare state provides an explanation for changes in traditional patterns of central-local government relations. The era of the welfare state has witnessed the rapid emergence of an intermeshed system of making and implementing policies, which necessitates inte…
Welfare State Retrenchment – The Case of Japan
The purpose of this article is to examine the implications for welfare state retrenchment of central-local financial relations. In the post-war period, welfare state expansion has been a dominant theme in the development of central-local government relations in advanced industrial democracies. By the 1980s, however, nearly all OECD member countries had resorted to deficit financing as stagnant tax revenues combined with political pressure for inc…
The Rise of the "Third Sector" in Japan
Research Article| April 01 2001 THE RISE OF THE "THIRD SECTOR" IN JAPAN Yasuo Takao Yasuo Takao Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2001) 41 (2): 290–309. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2001.41.2.290 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
National Integration and Local Power in Japan
Foreigners' Rights in Japan
This article examines the impact of Japanese local government's initiatives for promoting the protection of foreigners' rights. Evident in this study is the premise that local government is the single most important factor for promoting foreigners' rights in Japan
Democratic Renewal by "Digital" Local Government in Japan
Reinventing Japan
The book is about new dynamic forces that are driving change in Japan. It is developed around two key concepts of civil society and social capital. The focus is on pathways to Japan's social renewal t
Japanese women in grassroots politics
The 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women highlights the importance of equal participation of women in public life. Since the early 1960s, women in Japan have voted in elections at significantly higher rates than men. However, Japanese women's equal participation in policy formulation and decision making lags far behind major democracies. Gender equality is stated under the Japanese Constitution, but s…
Women in Japanese Local Politics
I think that we need to elect female representatives to national assemblies to address women's issues and into local assemblies to help solve community problems surrounding children and the family." Ichikawa Fusae"Increasing the number of female representatives alone will neither change politics nor increase the autonomy of the local community. Women who belong to existing parties and organizations that pursue vested interests have been unable to…
Aging and Political Participation in Japan
Population aging is not just the socioeconomic issue of Japan's future, but the political issue as well. The sharing of resources for an aging society will reshape policy strategies and democracy-building. This article will examine the direction and nature of participation by the elderly in the political process of Japanese society
Reinvigorating the transnational links of sub-national governments between Australia and Japan with special reference to Western Australia–Hyogo sister-state relations
The study of transnational links between sub-national governments is a lacuna in the field of international relations yet the issue on inter-sub-national government cooperation has recently gained greater importance at the international level. Since the 1992 Earth Summit recognition of sub-national authorities as key players in global sustainable development strategies, the importance of decentralised cooperation between sub-national governments …
Recommended for Further Reading
explores the political roles of women, including the possibilities for alternative approaches to improve representative democracy in Japan.Takao explains that women's engagement in politics increased in the 1990s, particularly with the 1999 Basic Law of Gender-Equality in Society and the "unprecedented success of grassroots campaigns to increase women's share of seats in local elections."In addition, the one-party dominance of the Liberal Democra…
The transformation of Japan's environmental policy
In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was known as the leading innovator in environmental policy. Other OECD countries found much to emulate. Two decades later, Japan appears to have lost its innovative edge to other OECD countries. Why has Japan fallen from its position as the global leader? How should Japan regain its reputation? Possible causes of the rise and fall of Japanese environmental policy are examined by exploring its domestic policy subsyste…
Making Climate Change Policy Work at the Local Level
This study will examine the state of local capacity building for local climate adaptation in Japan. Climate mitigation needs to be led by both global strategies and national mandates in an integrated way, but climate change impacts are manifested locally and adaptive capacity is determined by local conditions. The article first lays out the basic components of local capacity for decentralized policy making and assesses the current local capacity …
Policy learning and diffusion of Tokyo's metropolitan cap-and-trade
The process of adopting policy ideas is extremely complex and requires a close examination of the political context in which the idea is learned, articulated, contested, adapted, and accepted by agents, both individual and collective. Why and how was the world's first urban scheme of mandatory reduction of total emissions adopted in Tokyo and not elsewhere? What might cause diffusion of this idea in other urban areas? One key explanation behind t…
Local Levels of Participation in Japan's Foreign Aid and Cooperation
This study will examine the determinants of local Japanese government involvement in decentralized international cooperation by taking an actor-specific approach to three outstanding cases: Shiga Prefecture, Kitakyushu City, and Yokohama City. It will look beneath the aggregate relationships to more qualitative evidence of localized motives for Japanese cooperation with developing countries
Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance
1. The transformation of Japan's environmental policy -- 2. The rigidity of Japan's nuclear energy policy : state-centric gate-keeping -- 3. The state of local capacity building : decentralized policy making -- 4. Tokyo's metropolitan cap-and-trade : policy learning and diffusion -- 5. Shiga's cooperation with UNEP : transnational sectoral network -- 6. Kitakyushu's environmental business : utility-based transnationalism within norms -- 7. Yokoha…
Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance
Subnational participation in extra-national policy solutions
The growing challenges of environment and sustainable development stretch across scales of geographic space and require action at multiple levels of jurisdictions, such as individual level, community level, national level, and global level. Multilevel governance and cross-scale coordination will open up opportunities for a variety of stakeholders to participate in decision-making. While potentially increasing the capacity of governance, the cross…
The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption
This article will examine the determinants of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) policy adoption in Shibuya, one of the twenty-three city wards of Tokyo, by taking an actor-specific approach to the first case of officially recognized same-sex partnership in Japan. How did the sexual minority issue become the subject of official agendas? How did actors both inside and outside the municipal government seize agenda-setting opportunities …
National Integration and Local Power in Japan
First published in 1999, this book offers a new study of local government in Japan. There is an enormous amount of information about Japanese local government that has not yet appeared in English. With the author’s local familiarity, elected local officials and local residents have been extraordinarily open and forthcoming. This allows a rethinking of the topic by mobilising a multitude of solid factual material. Japan has dealt with the dramatic…
Accounting for the Rigidity of Japan’s Nuclear Energy Policy
This article examines the seven decades since the end of World War II and the evolution of Japan’s nuclear energy policy from the perspective of both domestic/international structures and coalition building processes. The objective is to identify the causal mechanism that has produced the rigidity of today’s Japanese nuclear energy policy. This study takes an analytically eclectic approach. Viewing the single puzzle of policy rigidity through two…
Japan's Agenda Setting to Lower the Voting Age from 20 to 18
What age a state designates as appropriate for voting rights raises a range of democratic and empirical issues. The lowering of the voting age in Japan in 2015 was the biggest expansion of the country’s democratic franchise since 1945, yet it happened in an abrupt manner. Lowering the voting age was not a significant issue among the Japanese public until the mid-2000s and the government began supporting the move officially only in 2014. Why then?…
Low-carbon leadership
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