A progressive vision for a more independent, democratic Japan free of American-style militarism and capitalism.

An empirical and theoretical study of the Koizumi administration. Uchiyama looks at the policy making process; institutional arenas such as the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy; Koizumi’s populist strategy; foreign policy; and neoliberal convictions to find explanations for his wide public support, and the historical significance of his administration.

Nicotine Addiction and The Cure - An Integrated Approach to Smoking Cessation is a guide on how to quit smoking that contains not only helpful hints but also real testimonials from people who have followed this path to the letter. After a detailed introduction on the origin of tobacco, the use of smoking and the growth of the tobacco and cigarette industry worldwide, with the consequent harmful effects on smokers and society, we move on to the spread of nicotine addiction and the treatment of smoking addiction. All data and experiences presented within the book are drawn from the author’s experience of running a smoking cessation clinic and his own study of over 35 years. In the smoking cessation clinic not only conventional medical treatments were provided, but also hypnosis and acupuncture for smokers who wanted to quit smoking. The book also discusses the conventional approach to smoking cessation with medication, behavioural therapy, counselling and e-cigarettes along with an alternative approach to smoking cessation incorporating hypnosis and acupuncture. The clinic’s project “An Integrated Approach to Smoking Cessation” was judged as one of the ten best projects in the UK by the Foundation for Integrated Medicine in 2001 and received a certificate of achievement from His Royal Highness Prince Charles. Dr Mazhari came to the UK in the early seventies. He did rotational jobs in various disciplines as a Senior House Officer at Whipton and Heavitree Hospital in Exeter, North Ormesby Hospital, Middlesborough, New Cross Hospital, Ryde County Hospital and Whitecroft Hospital in the Isle of Wight. In between the jobs, he obtained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the School of Tropical Medicine Liverpool, Diploma in Paediatrics from the University of Dublin, Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis from the University of Sheffield and achieved Licence and a Certificate of Competence to practice Acupuncture from the North Western Academy of Acupuncture Liverpool. After completing his training, he moved to Durham to work as a General Practitioner in practice in a mining village in Chopwell. In June 1982, he moved to Manchester to take over a single-handed practice in Clayton where he worked until his retirement in June 2017. It was here where he developed a special interest in smoking cessation and developed a smoking cessation clinic that uses therapies such as hypnosis and acupuncture. Besides being a GP, he is an accomplished poet, two of his books have been published in Delhi, India. He is a prolific writer, many of his articles have been published in various medical journals like Pulse, General Practitioner, Doctor, Med Economic and British Journal of International Doctors (BIDA). Even in his retirement he keeps active in writing and reading, hence this book to share his experiences of smoking cessation.

This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Japan underwent three distinct crises of sovereignty in its modern history: in the 1890s, during the interwar period, and in the 1950s. Each crisis provoked successively escalating crusades against opium and other drugs, in which moral entrepreneurs--bureaucrats, cultural producers, merchants, law enforcement, scientists, and doctors, among others--focused on drug use as a means of distinguishing between populations fit and unfit for self-rule. Moral Nation traces the instrumental role of ideologies about narcotics in the country's efforts to reestablish its legitimacy as a nation and empire. As Kingsberg demonstrates, Japan's growing status as an Asian power and a "moral nation" expanded the notion of "civilization" from an exclusively Western value to a universal one. Scholars and students of Japanese history, Asian studies, world history, and global studies will gain an in-depth understanding of how Japan's experience with narcotics influenced global standards for sovereignty and shifted the aim of nation building, making it no longer a strictly political activity but also a moral obligation to society.

More than 10 years ago, federal officials boldly claimed that they would create a 'drug-free America by 1995.' To reach that objective, Congress spent billions on police, prosecutors, drug courts, and prisons. Despite millions of arrests and countless seizures, America is not drug free. Illegal drugs are as readily available today as ever before. Drug prohibition has proven to be a costly failure. Like alcohol prohibition, drug prohibition has created more problems than it has solved.

Depictions of an alcohol-saturated Japan populated by intoxicated salarymen, beer dispensing vending machines, and a generally tolerant approach to public drunkenness, typify domestic and international perceptions of Japanese drinking. Even the popular definitions of Japanese masculinity are interwoven with accounts of personal alcohol consumption in public settings; gender norms that exclude and marginalize the alcoholic. And yet the alcoholic also exists in Japan, and exists in a manner revealing of the dominant processes by which alcoholism and addiction are globally influenced, understood, and classified. As such, this book examines the ways in which alcoholism is understood, accepted, and taken on as an influential and lived aspect of identity among Japanese men. At the most general level, it explores how a subjective idea comes to be regarded as an objective and unassailable fact. Here such a process concerns how the culturally and temporally specific treatment methodology of Alcoholics Anonymous, upon which much of Japan’s other major sobriety association, Danshūkai, is also based, has come to be the approach in Japan to diagnosing, treating, and structuring alcoholism as an aspect of individual identity. In particular, the gendered consequences, how this process transpires or is resisted by Japanese men, are considered, as they offer substantial insight into how categories of illness and disease are created, particularly the ramifications of dominant forms of such categorizations across increasingly porous cultural borders. Ramifications that become starkly obvious when Japan’s persistent connection between notions of masculinity and alcohol consumption are considered from the perspective of the sober alcoholic and sobriety group member.