Introducing 'The Politics of Warring States Japan, 1467-1600' Data

• In Event: Poster Session: Political Thought and Philosophy & International History and Politics
  In Poster Session: Poster Session: International History and Politics

Abstract

This article introduces “The Politics of Warring-States Japan, 1467-1600,” a new collection of data covering political and military relations between warlords within Japan—and relations between actors in Japan and the world—during its warring-states period from 1467 to 1600. Drawn from the most authoritative chronology of the politics of the Japanese archipelago during the warring-states period, data were collected on variety of political phenomena, including battles and wars (n=2,846), territorial conquest (n=1,213), alliance formation (n=569), and diplomacy with actors outside the Japanese archipelago (n=563). In this article, I focus primarily on the battle data, and only briefly on the other data. I introduce the source of the data, and describe the coding rules and procedures, present basic descriptive statistics of key variables of interest, and discuss possible applications in political science and beyond. The data introduced here should be of interests to scholars of Japanese history, Early Modern East Asia, and systemic international relations theory, among many others.

Author

• Nicholas Anderson, Yale University