🏛️ Politics & Society · Japan
Best Politics & Society Books from Japan
Political and social non-fiction maps the world as it is — its power structures, its inequalities, its contradictions — and sometimes imagines what it could be. Japan has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in politics & society, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best politics & society from Japan by editorial consensus.
#1
politics-society
Conservatize Me
John Moe· 2006
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#2
politics-society
Eating animals
Jonathan Safran Foer· 2009
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#3
politics-society
Urban society
Noel Pitts Gist· 1933
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#4
politics-society
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Joe Trippi· 2004
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#5
politics-society
Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day
Joe Scarborough· 2004
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#6
politics-society
My Israel Question
Antony Loewenstein· 2006
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#7
politics-society
Brainless
Joe Maguire· 2006
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#8
politics-society
The Mediterranean in politics
Elizabeth Monroe· 1938
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#9
politics-society
American rhapsody
Joe Eszterhas· 2000
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#10
politics-society
Nyanyi Sunyi Seorang Bisu
Pramoedya Ananta Toer· 1995
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#11
politics-society
The Power of the Vote
Douglas E. Schoen· 2007
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#12
politics-society
The United States and the Arab world
William Roe Polk· 1965
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#13
politics-society
Hamas in politics
Jeroen Gunning· 2008
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#14
politics-society
The Arab world today
Morroe Berger· 1962
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#15
politics-society
Britain's moment in the Middle East, 1914-1956
Elizabeth Monroe· 1963
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#16
politics-society
The Personal and the Political
Ulrike Boehmer· 2000
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#17
politics-society
Plain pictures of plain doctoring
John D. Stoeckle· 1985
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#18
politics-society
The White Court
Rebecca Shoemaker· 2004
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#19
politics-society
Monarchy and incest in Renaissance England
Bruce Thomas Boehrer· 1992
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#20
politics-society
Generation at the crossroads
Paul Rogat Loeb· 1994
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#21
politics-society
The Meaning of Sociology
Joel M. Charon· 1980
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#22
politics-society
Victimology
William G. Doerner· 2014
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#23
politics-society
Prejudice, war, and the Constitution
Jacobus tenBroek· 1954
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#24
politics-society
Parental control of television broadcasting
Monroe Edwin Price· 2001
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#25
politics-society
The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton
Bruce Schoenfeld· 2004
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#26
politics-society
Ten questions
Joel M. Charon· 1992
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#27
politics-society
The Southern subculture of drinking and driving
Julian B. Roebuck· 1996
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#28
politics-society
Work incentives and welfare provision
Doris Schroeder· 2000
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#29
politics-society
Gender and health
Chloe E. Bird· 2008
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#30
politics-society
Ideas and intervention
Joe Bailey· 1980
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#31
politics-society
Misfits
Michaela Coel· 2021
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#32
politics-society
Blame welfare, ignore poverty and inequality
Joel F. Handler· 2006
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#33
politics-society
Task-centred social work
Mark Doel· 1992
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#34
politics-society
Managing death
James M. Hoefler· 1997
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#35
politics-society
Economic geography
Neil M. Coe· 2007
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#36
politics-society
Thanks for the memories, George
Mike Loew· 2009
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score25/100
#37
politics-society
Pox of Liberty
Werner Troesken· 2015
Library Journal
Editorial Score25/100



























