Prof J A A Stockwin, OBE

Career: lectr, sr lectr, reader ANU Canberra 1964-81, Nissan prof of modern Japanese studies and dir Nissan Inst of Japanese Studies Univ of Oxford 1982-2003; St Antony's Coll Oxford: professorial fell 1982-2003, sub-warden 1999-2001, emeritus fell 2003-; pres Br Assoc of Japanese Studies 1994-95; Order of the Rising Sun Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon 2004, Japan Fndn Award 2009

Books and Publications: The Japanese Socialist Party and Neutralism (1968), Japan: Divided Politics in a Growth Economy (1975, 4 edn (as Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Resurgent Economy) 2008), Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan (ed and part-author, 1988), The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System (by Junji Banno, trans 1992), The Story of Tim (1993), Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan (2003), Collected Writings of J A A Stockwin, Part I (2004), Thirty-Odd Feet Below Belgium: An Affair of Letters in the Great War, 1915-1916 (2005), Japan's Postwar (by Michael Lucken et al, trans 2011), Japanese Foreign Policy and Understanding Japanese Politics: The Writings of J A A Stockwin (2 Vols, 2012)