A critical book that uses the Bank of Japan’s functions and problems as a lens for reading the fragility of the financial system.

Debates about the central bank connect directly to everyday life.

An accessible work of political science that examines the male-dominated structures shaping Japanese politics through historical context and extensive data. It traces why women have been kept at a distance from politics and considers institutional reforms for a democracy in which everyone can participate as an equal.

A book that questions male-centered politics and seeks a path toward a democracy open to everyone.

A work of comparative political science that examines Japan's Constitution, unchanged for more than seventy years, alongside constitutions around the world. Using quantitative analysis of constitutional text, amendment patterns, and governing institutions, it considers both its universal qualities and its distinctive features.

It reconsiders Japan's long-unamended Constitution through quantitative comparison with constitutions worldwide.

The book traces the rise and development of the human rights idea, from abolitionist movements to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the work of the UN Human Rights Commission and NGOs. It is an Iwanami Shinsho that reconsiders how to implement human rights within the realities of international politics.

A fresh look at human rights as both an ideal and a political reality.

War: How It Ends traces how wars are concluded, from the two World Wars to Vietnam and Iraq, in a Chuko Shinsho volume.

An empirical book for thinking about how wars come to an end.

"民主主義とは何か" is a 受賞 work from the Ishibashi Tanzan Award 2021-1. It stands out for its distinctive premise and atmosphere.

A 受賞 work from Ishibashi Tanzan Award 2021-1.

"ドキュメント 日銀漂流：試練と苦悩の四半世紀" is a 受賞 work from the Ishibashi Tanzan Award 2021-1. It stands out for its distinctive premise and atmosphere.

A 受賞 work from Ishibashi Tanzan Award 2021-1.

A paperback that traces the reality of the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement and the U.S. military presence in Japan.

It portrays the treaty's realities through the history of its operation, including confidential agreed minutes.

Noriko Arai uses the Todai Robot project to explain what artificial intelligence can and cannot do, especially the gap between computation and understanding meaning. The book connects those limits with reading-comprehension surveys among students and asks what kind of literacy and education people need in the age of AI.

By looking at the limits of AI, the book reveals a crisis in human reading and learning.

"What Is Populism? Enemy of Democracy or Hope for Reform" is a Chuko Shinsho volume that examines populism across Europe, the Americas, and Japan from the perspective of comparative politics. Rather than condemning anti-elite sentiment, exclusionary politics, and criticism of established parties in one dimension, it considers both their tensions with democracy and their capacity to pressure political reform.

A study that rereads a world-shaking political phenomenon beyond the simple divide between democratic threat and reformist hope.

経済の大転換と日本銀行 is a 評論・研究 work by 翁邦雄 associated with the 2016 受賞 record. The entry summarizes the work from award records and bibliographic checks, focusing on its subject, publication status, and reading context.

経済の大転換と日本銀行 by 翁邦雄 is a work whose subject and publication status can be traced through award and bibliographic records.

Seventy Years After the War: Conservative Views of Asia is Hirofumi Wakamiya's study of postwar Japanese conservatism and its perceptions of Asia. It traces relations with China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, showing political consciousness caught between reconciliation and backlash.

A critical study that asks how postwar conservatives have viewed Asia through history and politics.

平和主義とは何か：政治哲学で考える戦争と平和 is an award-winning work by 松元雅和. It brings together the author's concerns and stylistic qualities in a form recognized by the prize jury.

平和主義とは何か：政治哲学で考える戦争と平和, an award-winning work by 松元雅和.

永続敗戦論：戦後日本の核心 is an award-winning work by 白井聡. It brings together the author's concerns and stylistic qualities in a form recognized by the prize jury.

永続敗戦論：戦後日本の核心, an award-winning work by 白井聡.

Written after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, this work treats nuclear power as a social-scientific problem of risk and cost allocation. It asks where responsibility lies for decommissioning, radioactive waste, and burdens passed to future generations.

The nuclear crisis is examined as a question of future costs and social responsibility rather than only emotion.

Economists in Wartime examines how Japanese economists confronted total war from World War I through World War II. Looking at the military, bureaucracy, ideological warfare, and the formation of modern economics, it traces how economics became entangled with society and war.

How did economics become drawn into the demands of society and war in the age of total war?

危機の経済政策 is a work by 若田部昌澄. A nonfiction work that examines history and society, tracing forces beneath institutions and culture.

危機の経済政策 draws readers into its world through concentrated language and the force of its subject.

近代日本の分岐点：日露戦争から満州事変前夜までは、深津真澄による近代日本政治史の著作です。日露戦争後から満州事変前夜までの選択をたどり、近代日本がどのような岐路に立ったかを論じます。

日露戦争後の日本が歩んだ政治的な分岐を、満州事変前夜まで追う一冊です。

A critical work reconsidering freedom and democracy in Japanese society. It discusses economic development, political institutions, education, and peace from the principle of a free society.

It asks why Japan could be a free society through history and institutions.

日中関係：戦後から新時代へ is an award-winning work by 毛里和子. It presents its subject through a concise literary frame, focusing on voice, atmosphere, and the emotional movement of the characters or speaker.

日中関係：戦後から新時代へ shows the qualities for which 毛里和子 was recognized in this award year.

A Chuko Shinsho volume on postwar reconciliation after the Second World War, examining war crimes trials, Japan-Germany comparisons, Anglo-Japanese relations, and prospects for Sino-Japanese reconciliation. It asks how relations can be repaired without erasing memory or responsibility.

A book that reconsiders the conditions for reconciliation through the history of memory and responsibility after war.

The Realism of Peace is Kiichi Fujiwara's work of political analysis, asking what conditions can sustain peace while facing the power relations of international politics. It avoids both simple idealism and cynical realism, examining possibilities for peace from within the realities of war and security.

A reconsideration of the conditions for peace from within the realities of international politics.

A compact study that rereads postwar Japan's economy from the household side rather than from corporations or production. It discusses recession, inequality, employment, and social security through the lived experience of households.

It asks what was happening to households in the shadow of economic growth.

地域再生の経済学：豊かさを問い直す by 神野直彦 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.

地域再生の経済学：豊かさを問い直す by 神野直彦 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.

現代日本経済政策論 by Kazuhide Uekusa is known as a 石橋湛山賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.

現代日本経済政策論 is an award-recognized work by Kazuhide Uekusa.

The Right Way to Think About Fiscal Deficits is an introductory work that examines Japan’s fiscal deficit through economic theory and empirical research rather than alarmism. It organizes the effects of accumulated government debt and offers tools for considering sound fiscal policy.

It rethinks government debt not only through anxiety but through the tools of economics.

現代日本経済論：「バブル経済」の発生と崩壊 is a work by 奥村洋彦. It was recognized by 石橋湛山賞.

現代日本経済論：「バブル経済」の発生と崩壊, recognized by 石橋湛山賞.

"競争社会の二つの顔：生存のためそして遊戯として" is a work of social and economic criticism by 猪木 武德. Reliable book identifiers for a standalone volume could not be confirmed.

"競争社会の二つの顔：生存のためそして遊戯として" is recognized as a work of social and economic criticism.

A work of economic and legal policy that examines deregulation, antimonopoly law, market vitality, and the role of competition policy.

A work of economic and legal policy that examines deregulation, antimonopoly law, market vitality, and the role of competition policy.

日本的雇用慣行の経済学：労働市場の流動化と日本経済 is a 作品 by 八代尚宏 and was recognized by the 石橋湛山賞.

The title 日本的雇用慣行の経済学：労働市場の流動化と日本経済 points to the scene or question at the center of the work.

An economic critique that envisions a new industrial society for Japan amid the transformation of established institutions and practices. It considers changes in business, industry, government, and individual life in an increasingly networked and globalized economy.

A consideration of a new Japanese model through changing business, industry, government, and individual life.

挑戦する流通 is a critical or scholarly work on literature, thought, or culture. It combines close reading with contextual inquiry to show how its subject took shape.

A book that traces its subject's background and reads the meaning of expression in depth.

新経済主義宣言：政治改革論議を超えて is a work by 寺島実郎. It was recognized in the 1994 cycle of ishibashi-tanzan-award; the entry summarizes the work based on confirmed publication traces.

新経済主義宣言：政治改革論議を超えて reflects the qualities in 寺島実郎's writing that drew award attention.

石橋湛山の思想史的研究 is a critical or research work by 姜克實. It was honored by the 石橋湛山賞 and presents the writer's concerns and style in a focused form.

A useful entry point into 姜克實's work.

The Post-Cold War World and Japan by 船橋洋一 is a Japanese nonfiction work. 冷戦終結後の国際秩序の変化を、日本の役割と外交課題から考える評論・聞き書き的な一冊。世界の著名ジャーナリストの視点を交え、国際化の時代に日本がどう向き合うかを問う。

The Post-Cold War World and Japan distills the author's eye and style into a compact work.

Kokusai Anzen Hosho no Koso is Takehiko Kamo's study of international politics. Against the end of the Cold War, it reconsiders power politics and realism while proposing ways to think about a new security order.

A work of political science that rethinks security in the nineteen-nineties as the Cold War order wavers.

Ishibashi Tanzan Kenkyu: The International Outlook of a "Small-Japanist" is Hiroshi Masuda's study of Ishibashi Tanzan. It examines Tanzan's small-Japanism and international outlook in the contexts of journalism, diplomatic thought, and critiques of modern Japan's foreign policy.

The book reads Ishibashi Tanzan's small-Japanism as a history of international thought.

"New Possibilities for the Japan-U.S. Alliance" is an essay by Terumasa Nakanishi that reconsidered the alliance in the late Cold War international environment. Rather than treating the security framework as fixed, it asks how the alliance should be understood amid a changing world order.

At a moment when the Cold War was beginning to end, the essay asks what role the Japan-U.S. alliance should play next.

This work considers international politics not only through relations among states but through a civic perspective linking peace, development, and human rights. Facing the late Cold War world, it reexamines human security and local responsibility.

An argument for thinking about peace together with development and human rights.

責任国家・日本の選択 is a work by 中谷巌 selected in the 1988 cycle of 石橋湛山賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.

責任国家・日本の選択 by 中谷巌, recognized by 石橋湛山賞.

歴史と文明のなかの経済摩擦／経済摩擦の歴史的定位：「国際化」と経済摩擦 is a 評論 by 大沼保昭. It presents its subject through a clear artistic perspective, giving shape to personal experience, historical context, and the texture of expression in a way suitable for readers encountering the work today.

歴史と文明のなかの経済摩擦／経済摩擦の歴史的定位：「国際化」と経済摩擦 condenses the qualities of 大沼保昭's work in the form of a 評論.

A work of international-affairs commentary by Yukio Matsuyama on how Japan, as a peace-oriented trading nation, should engage the world through mutual understanding and communication.

A commentary that asks how Japan can conduct dialogue with the world in an age of internationalization.

無邪気で危険なエリートたち is an essayistic or nonfiction work by 竹内啓. It connects personal observation with public questions about society and culture, presenting its subject in a clear, readable form.

無邪気で危険なエリートたち conveys the qualities recognized at the time of the award through its period context, expression, and reach to readers.

A policy essay on how Japan should use its economic strength in the international community. Against the background of postwar growth, it considers economic responsibility and international contribution.

An essay that reconnects Japan’s economic power with international responsibility.

日米「愛憎」関係：今後の選択 by 天谷直弘 is a 評論 that presents its subject through careful observation and controlled language. It draws readers into the emotional pressure behind its images while keeping the focus on the work itself.

日米「愛憎」関係：今後の選択 is an important 評論 for understanding 天谷直弘's literary world.

Drawing on a field-oriented perspective, this book examines the dynamics of international politics and economics and considers a rapidly changing world through the lens of Japan's economy. It presents Keitaro Hasegawa's confident outlook on Japan's economic potential.

It surveys the changing dynamics of the world and Japan's potential through the lens of the Japanese economy.

Agriculture as an Advanced-Country Industry reconsiders Japanese agriculture as an industry suited to an advanced economy and examines the conditions for its independence amid international competition. It considers the future of agriculture through the connections among productivity, management, and policy.

A study of how Japanese agriculture can become a competitive industry for the future.

An economic essay that reviews the 1970s and considers the strength of the Japanese economy entering the 1980s through the idea of self-adjusting capacity. Taking account of changes in the external environment and policy challenges, it links the adaptive power of firms, labor, markets, and society to the durability of Japan's economy.

At a turning point in growth, the essay reads Japan's economy through practical adaptive capacity rather than institutions alone.