Political encyclopaedia of modern Japan

   The uniqueness of the Political Encyclopedia of modern Japan is, in the opinion of its authors, in two aspects. First, the publication contains materials that characterize the distinctive features and behavior of existing Japanese politicians and diplomats, helping to understand who is who in the ruling establishment of modern Japan. Encyclopedias analyze the patterns of the evolution of Japanese-American, Japanese-Chinese and Japanese-Russian relations during the Cold War and after its termination, focuses on new challenges to Russia's security in the Japanese direction. And secondly, unlike many other reference books on Japan that used to be published in our country, this encyclopaedia contains a large stratum of up-to-date information about the structure and activities of legislative and executive bodies of Japan's central and local government, its electoral system and political parties, compactly and clearly presented in the form of tables and charts.

The peculiarity of the publication is also that the compilers of the encyclopedia set themselves a modest task to write such a guidebook, which, for all its cognitive value, would silently play its "diplomatic role", promoting the rapprochement of the peoples of Japan and Russia, would make a feasible contribution to improving the climate of the Russian- Japanese relations through the systematization and dissemination of objective political information. Books on political issues in addition to their information usefulness, as it seems to the authors, do not Temporarily must be an important instrument for furthering international communication, foster good neighborly climate and endowed a wise idea to prove the English philosopher and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain Francis Bacon that "knowledge - it's really strength." Such a role authors of the encyclopedia were assigned to this edition.

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