James Babb
Biographic Data
| ID | 1351753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Babb |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Babb |
| SIGNATURE | BABB J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Outside GHQ
The Japanese people played a much more important role in shaping events during the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) than is often recognized. This article examines the movement for democratization of the labor unions in order to demonstrate the extent to which the Japanese shaped their own destiny. Domestic politics is often overlooked due to an emphasis on the start of the Cold War in this period. Indeed, US policy is usually given the pre…
Rapid and sustained symptom reduction following psilocybin treatment for anxiety and depression in patients with life-threatening cancer
BACKGROUND: Clinically significant anxiety and depression are common in patients with cancer, and are associated with poor psychiatric and medical outcomes. Historical and recent research suggests a role for psilocybin to treat cancer-related anxiety and depression. METHODS: In this double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial, 29 patients with cancer-related anxiety and depression were randomly assigned and received treatment with single-do…
Legacy
The Noboru Takeshita administration’s approach to the resolution of political problems and regional development surpassed Kakuei Tanaka’s in the amount of largesse distributed. In one policy initiative, for example, Takeshita simply gave 10 million yen to every local authority in the country for each to use as it saw fit. In reaction to the legacy of Tanaka’s deficit financing, the Ministry of Finance had convinced politicians that a new tax was …
Prolonged Fall
Kakuei Tanaka fell from office relatively quickly due to a decline in popularity as a result of economic crisis and revelation of his questionable financial dealings, both of which his opponents used to undermine his government. Despite his removal, Tanaka’s efforts to maintain an influence continued to destabilise Japanese politics for over a decade. The emergence of the Seirankai, or Blue Storm Society, has been attributed to the inability of T…
Tanaka in Power
Kakuei Tanaka had been very helpful to Sato but by the end of the 1960s, it appeared that Sato’s long tenure in office was finally going to come to an end. Tanaka defeated Fukuda due both to brilliant manoeuvring in the internal politics of the Liberal Democratic Party, and to widespread support for Tanaka as the people’s Prime Minister. The problem for Tanaka was that his lack of polish and dubious background damaged his standing with the politi…
War, Business and Corruption
Kakuei Tanaka’s relationship with Marries Hana Sakamoto was important for a variety of reasons, but most immediately because he introduced Tanaka to his future wife. There may have been another motive as well which undermines the Tanaka myth of his success in setting up his own building design business at the age of 19 and rising to become president of a construction company by the age of 25. War contracts meant that business was booming for cons…
Humble Beginnings
The country was more democratic, and with the aid of politicians such as Kakuei Tanaka, policy was focused on improving the economic and social standing of the average Japanese. Tanaka’s autobiography starts by noting the historical background of his home village, in which the local lord ruled his feudal domain, like all others, by means of the samurai, who were primarily warriors at first but evolved into a class of high-level civil servants. Ta…
Miracle Worker
The 1960s was the era of the Japanese economic miracle. While Japan’s economy recovery had begun in the 1950s, the period of highest postwar economic growth was in the decade that followed. Most Japanese and many Western observers believed it was Japanese hard work and long hours that made the economic miracle possible. In sharp contrast to the low wage strategy of pre-war industrialists and economic policy-makers, democratisation in postwar Japa…
Tanaka-Style Populism
The type of legislation that Kakuei Tanaka proposed as a junior MP focused on building the infrastructure which was to prove essential to Japan’s postwar economic miracle. In identifying the need for such spending, Tanaka cultivated relationships with bureaucrats who were certainly interventionist and in some cases clearly socialist in their orientation. The route taken by Tanaka in aligning himself with Yoshida, who dominated Japanese politics f…
Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka was the most powerful politician in Japan for nearly two decades, and his followers have dominated Japanese politics for most of the country's recent history. This account of the life and times of Tanaka explores the public profile and private power-broking of a controversial and powerful politician, opening up in the process the intimate political history of modern Japan
The New Generation of Conservative Politicians in Japan
This study examines the extent to which there has been a rise in ideologically based politics in Japan due to the decline in factionalism in the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The study is based on two cases studies. The first is based on the notion of ‘Koizumi's children’ recruited by former Prime Minister Koizumi and his allies, who were heavily discouraged from joining a faction. The second model is based on an analysis of a juni…
The Seirankai and the Fate of its Members
Often ideology is downplayed in the study of Japanese politics. The Seirankai is important because it was a clearly ideological right-wing group of politicians. The group and its former members certainly pushed forward the right-wing ideological agenda in the decades after its formation but assessing its impact is not straightforward. The Seirankai and the fate of its members demonstrate the tension between ideology and standard narratives of pol…
Making Farmers Conservative
Under the Allied Occupation, immediately after the end of Second World War, pent-up tenant farmer frustration was translated into substantial support for the Japan Socialist Party through the farmer union movement. This support was enhanced by the institutional mechanisms of the land reform process, particularly land reform committees (nochi iinkai), in which the Socialists played a predominant role. However, as the land reform process came to an…
Two Currents of Conservatism in Modern Japan
This paper examines the division of Japanese conservatives into two political parties in the early post‐war period in order to understand why one party chose to enter a coalition government led by the Japanese Socialist Party in 1947 while the other refused. It argues that Japanese conservatives were divided between those who favoured heavy industry and state involvement in the solution of social and economic problems, and those who focused on th…
Politics and politicians in Japan
The precarious political balance in Japan
The origins and nature of Japanese electoral reform
The difficulty, outlined in this article, of reaching agreement on electoral reform demonstrates the political importance of the subject
The New Generation of Conservative Politicians in Japan
This study examines the extent to which there has been a rise in ideologically based politics in Japan due to the decline in factionalism in the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The study is based on two cases studies. The first is based on the notion of ‘Koizumi's children’ recruited by former Prime Minister Koizumi and his allies, who were heavily discouraged from joining a faction. The second model is based on an analysis of a juni…
The Seirankai and the Fate of its Members
Often ideology is downplayed in the study of Japanese politics. The Seirankai is important because it was a clearly ideological right-wing group of politicians. The group and its former members certainly pushed forward the right-wing ideological agenda in the decades after its formation but assessing its impact is not straightforward. The Seirankai and the fate of its members demonstrate the tension between ideology and standard narratives of pol…
The precarious political balance in Japan
The origins and nature of Japanese electoral reform
The difficulty, outlined in this article, of reaching agreement on electoral reform demonstrates the political importance of the subject
The origins and nature of Japanese electoral reform
The difficulty, outlined in this article, of reaching agreement on electoral reform demonstrates the political importance of the subject
The precarious political balance in Japan
Politics and politicians in Japan
Two Currents of Conservatism in Modern Japan
This paper examines the division of Japanese conservatives into two political parties in the early post‐war period in order to understand why one party chose to enter a coalition government led by the Japanese Socialist Party in 1947 while the other refused. It argues that Japanese conservatives were divided between those who favoured heavy industry and state involvement in the solution of social and economic problems, and those who focused on th…
Making Farmers Conservative
Under the Allied Occupation, immediately after the end of Second World War, pent-up tenant farmer frustration was translated into substantial support for the Japan Socialist Party through the farmer union movement. This support was enhanced by the institutional mechanisms of the land reform process, particularly land reform committees (nochi iinkai), in which the Socialists played a predominant role. However, as the land reform process came to an…
The Seirankai and the Fate of its Members
Often ideology is downplayed in the study of Japanese politics. The Seirankai is important because it was a clearly ideological right-wing group of politicians. The group and its former members certainly pushed forward the right-wing ideological agenda in the decades after its formation but assessing its impact is not straightforward. The Seirankai and the fate of its members demonstrate the tension between ideology and standard narratives of pol…
The New Generation of Conservative Politicians in Japan
This study examines the extent to which there has been a rise in ideologically based politics in Japan due to the decline in factionalism in the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The study is based on two cases studies. The first is based on the notion of ‘Koizumi's children’ recruited by former Prime Minister Koizumi and his allies, who were heavily discouraged from joining a faction. The second model is based on an analysis of a juni…
Legacy
The Noboru Takeshita administration’s approach to the resolution of political problems and regional development surpassed Kakuei Tanaka’s in the amount of largesse distributed. In one policy initiative, for example, Takeshita simply gave 10 million yen to every local authority in the country for each to use as it saw fit. In reaction to the legacy of Tanaka’s deficit financing, the Ministry of Finance had convinced politicians that a new tax was …
Prolonged Fall
Kakuei Tanaka fell from office relatively quickly due to a decline in popularity as a result of economic crisis and revelation of his questionable financial dealings, both of which his opponents used to undermine his government. Despite his removal, Tanaka’s efforts to maintain an influence continued to destabilise Japanese politics for over a decade. The emergence of the Seirankai, or Blue Storm Society, has been attributed to the inability of T…
Tanaka in Power
Kakuei Tanaka had been very helpful to Sato but by the end of the 1960s, it appeared that Sato’s long tenure in office was finally going to come to an end. Tanaka defeated Fukuda due both to brilliant manoeuvring in the internal politics of the Liberal Democratic Party, and to widespread support for Tanaka as the people’s Prime Minister. The problem for Tanaka was that his lack of polish and dubious background damaged his standing with the politi…
War, Business and Corruption
Kakuei Tanaka’s relationship with Marries Hana Sakamoto was important for a variety of reasons, but most immediately because he introduced Tanaka to his future wife. There may have been another motive as well which undermines the Tanaka myth of his success in setting up his own building design business at the age of 19 and rising to become president of a construction company by the age of 25. War contracts meant that business was booming for cons…
Humble Beginnings
The country was more democratic, and with the aid of politicians such as Kakuei Tanaka, policy was focused on improving the economic and social standing of the average Japanese. Tanaka’s autobiography starts by noting the historical background of his home village, in which the local lord ruled his feudal domain, like all others, by means of the samurai, who were primarily warriors at first but evolved into a class of high-level civil servants. Ta…
Miracle Worker
The 1960s was the era of the Japanese economic miracle. While Japan’s economy recovery had begun in the 1950s, the period of highest postwar economic growth was in the decade that followed. Most Japanese and many Western observers believed it was Japanese hard work and long hours that made the economic miracle possible. In sharp contrast to the low wage strategy of pre-war industrialists and economic policy-makers, democratisation in postwar Japa…
Tanaka-Style Populism
The type of legislation that Kakuei Tanaka proposed as a junior MP focused on building the infrastructure which was to prove essential to Japan’s postwar economic miracle. In identifying the need for such spending, Tanaka cultivated relationships with bureaucrats who were certainly interventionist and in some cases clearly socialist in their orientation. The route taken by Tanaka in aligning himself with Yoshida, who dominated Japanese politics f…
Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka was the most powerful politician in Japan for nearly two decades, and his followers have dominated Japanese politics for most of the country's recent history. This account of the life and times of Tanaka explores the public profile and private power-broking of a controversial and powerful politician, opening up in the process the intimate political history of modern Japan
Rapid and sustained symptom reduction following psilocybin treatment for anxiety and depression in patients with life-threatening cancer
BACKGROUND: Clinically significant anxiety and depression are common in patients with cancer, and are associated with poor psychiatric and medical outcomes. Historical and recent research suggests a role for psilocybin to treat cancer-related anxiety and depression. METHODS: In this double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial, 29 patients with cancer-related anxiety and depression were randomly assigned and received treatment with single-do…
Outside GHQ
The Japanese people played a much more important role in shaping events during the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) than is often recognized. This article examines the movement for democratization of the labor unions in order to demonstrate the extent to which the Japanese shaped their own destiny. Domestic politics is often overlooked due to an emphasis on the start of the Cold War in this period. Indeed, US policy is usually given the pre…
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