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Japan in Asia

Japan in Asia

Post-Cold-War Diplomacy

Tanaka Akihiko
Translated by Jean Connell Hoff

Japan Library series
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Political Science

¥4,450 + tax

ISBN 9784916055637
226 mm x 152 mm / 464 pp. / March 2017

Official development assistance (ODA), direct investment in Southeast Asia, participation in the Cambodian peace process, peacekeeping operations (PKO), the founding of APEC and other large-scale regional frameworks, the response to the Asian economic crisis, grappling with the "history" problem, trilateral summits: these have all been important milestones for postwar Japan―and especially for post-Cold-War Japan―in its efforts to rediscover Asia and Japan's place in it.

Tanaka Akihiko traces the role of diplomacy in redefining the role of Japan in Asia from the 1977 Fukuda Doctrine of "heart-to-heart contact" between Japan and its Southeast Asian neighbors to the Abe administration's negotiations to settle the comfort woman issue with South Korea at the end of 2015. But he also looks at the transformation that Asia itself underwent during that period. The Cold War in Asia was not a simple bipolar confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies. The situation there was complicated by the presence of China, the importance of nationalism for countries that had once been colonies, and the need to escape third-world status and become economically developed. Asia during the Cold War, especially East Asia, was a divided region; few countries had normal international relations with China. But in the late 20th century, Asia underwent three structural changes―the end of the Cold War, globalization, and democratization. The result has been dynamic growth in tandem with deepening economic interdependence and the development of a complex web of regional institutions among Asian countries.

What has been Japan's role in this increasingly interconnected Asia? What has Japan achieved―or failed to achieve―in Asia? This book is a history of post-Cold-War international politics, the themes of which are crises, responses to crises, and institution-building to prevent crises before they happen, aimed to provide an overview of political trends in Asia and Japan's diplomatic response to them.


Documents cited in Japan in Asia: Post-Cold-War Diplomacy.

URL: http://worldjpn.grips.ac.jp/documents/indices/asiajp/index-ENG.html

 

TANAKA Akihiko
Tanaka Akihiko is President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. He is the author of The New Middle Ages: The World System in the 21st Century. In 2012 he received the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon for his academic achievements.

*information as of time of publication

Japan Library series
Political Science

Publisher:
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Hardcover
¥4,450 + tax
ISBN 9784916055637
226 mm x 152 mm / 464 pp. / March 2017

eBook
ISBN 9784866580128 (ePub)
ISBN 9784916055996 (PDF)

Preface to the English Edition / Preface to the Japanese Edition / 1. Asia before the End of the Cold War / 2. Northeast Asia and the End of the Cold War / 3. Southeast Asia and the End of the Cold War / 4. “Asia-Pacific” Experiments / 5. The Rise of China and the Crisis on the Korean Peninsula / 6. The “History” Flare-up and Strains in Japan-China Relations / 7. The Asian Financial Crisis / 8. East-Asian Regionalism and Japan / 9. Enter Koizumi / 10. Six Prime Ministers in Six Years / 11. Abe’s Come-back / Notes / Bibliography / Index

"As the world moves toward an Asian century, and the interest of regional events are on the rise among western audiences, this is a timely contribution, and for someone with an (newfound) interest in contemporary Asian history and diplomacy and with a penchant for details, Tanaka offers an easily accessible introduction to and overview of East Asia politics and diplomacy."

André Asplund

Stockholm School of Economics, European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS)

Contemporary Japan

冷戦後のアジアにおける立場を模索してきた日本は、平和と安定のためにどんな役割を果たすことができたのか。英文版では原著発行(2007年)以後の約9年間を加筆。1970年代後半から40年にわたるアジア国際政治と日本の対アジア外交を検討する。

*本書で引用されている外交文書等の資料集です。併せてご利用ください。
『Japan in Asia』(『アジアのなかの日本』)資料集
URL: http://worldjpn.grips.ac.jp/documents/indices/asiajp/index.html

田中明彦
1954年生まれ。政策研究大学院大学学長。東京大学教養学部卒業後、マサチューセッツ工科大学よりPh.D.(政治学)。東京大学教養学部助手、同助教授、東京大学東洋文化研究所助教授、同教授、同所長、東京大学副学長、独立行政法人国際協力機構理事長を経て現職。1996年『新しい「中世」』(日本経済新聞社)でサントリー学芸賞、2001年『ワード・ポリティクス』(筑摩書房)で読売・吉野作造賞受賞。2012年紫綬褒章受章。

*著者略歴は書籍刊行時のものを表示しています。

Original Japanese Edition

アジアのなかの日本

田中明彦 著

NTT出版 刊

2007/10/30