This book examines Japan’s diplomatic position during the early Cold War, focusing on its participation and political stance surrounding the 1955 Bandung Conference. Miyashiro analyzes Japan’s attempt to reintegrate into Asia while balancing pressure from the United States and its own regional ambitions. The work provides insight into Japan’s foreign policy transformation, regional identi…
This book reveals President Theodore Roosevelt's major diplomatic expedition in 1905, known as the "Imperial Cruise." Through the American fleet's voyage to Asia, Roosevelt and William Howard Taft crafted a secret policy that shaped the geopolitics of modern East Asia. It explores the impact of this diplomacy on Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea, and how Roosevelt-era decisions contribut…
A burgeoning Japanese rote in the Asia-Pacific region has been one of the most contentious issues to the Southeast Asian Countries in recent years with its positive and negative implications. It is thus timely and significant to come to terms with Japan's "design" in the region from a historical perspective. Attributing Japan's active involvement in Southeast Asian affairs to the proclamation o…
In Japan, as elsewhere, the constant rub between domestic and international politics prefigures the landscape in which national foreign policy is planned and played out.
The future of foreign policy in Japan is uncertain. The post-World War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness. This book examines this uncertainty and explores the decision-making processes that have led Japan to this point
Japan can be explained. It needs to be explained because it matters. That it matters accounts for the wide range of information available in English on Japan's international relations.
The sudden end of the Cold War took the Japanese foreign policy community by surprise. The Yoshida Doctrine which served Japanese foreign policy so well during the Cold War is no longer a viable foreign policy option. This dissertation examines the restructuring of Japanese foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Through a series of 56 interviews with Japanese foreign policy elites, the c…
In international relations today, influence is a essential as military and economic might. Consequently, leaders promote favorable images of the state in order to attract allies and win support for their policies.
Argues that the post-Cold War world will see the United States and Japan emerge as opponents, traces Japan's increasing power, and contends the United States holds the trump cards in the economic contest.
In this book, James Manicom contests the orthodox view that the strategic rivalry between China and Japan will escalate into a full blown military conflict. The book concedes that the East China Sea will be the likely medium for Sino-Japanese military rivalry and cyclical tensions will persist; however, it makes the compelling case that cooperation will endure.