Arthur Stockwin is retired Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, and leading international scholar of the post-war Japanese political landscape. In 1981 he returned to the UK after twenty-one years at ANU, Canberra, to head up the newly established Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, where he remained until his retirement. His retirement year coincided with publication of his critically acclaimed Dictionary of Modern Japanese Politics (Routledge, 2003).
The Collected Writings of J.A.A.Stockwin, Part 1, addressed 'The Politics and Political Environment of Japan'; Part 2 is entitled 'Japanese Foreign Policy, International Perspectives and Japanese Studies'.