| Japan's Asian Policy: Revival and Response 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Inoguchi, Takashi (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0312294808 ISBN-13: 9780312294809 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $108.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: "Japan's Asian Policy" gives a timely, rich and balanced account of Japan' s renewed foreign policy toward its neighbors and of its neighbors' s responses. Japan' s diplomatic focus on the United States for the last half of a century and its difficulty with its own historical past has been a hindrance to its effort to construct a friendly and cooperative relationship with its Asian neighbors. Yet the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 led Japan to enhance its Asian links. Japan wanted to make best use of its steadily decreasing resources in order to help the region to recover and restore stability and vigor. The contributions in this collection explore Japan's decision to go Asian and the subsequent impact this shift has had on Japanese foreign policy in general. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Japan - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | World - Asian |
| Dewey: 327.520 |
| LCCN: 2002024610 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.88" W x 8.46" (0.93 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Crafting policy toward Asia is a difficult balancing act for Japan. Saddled by ill will in Asia left over from its militarist legacy of the first half of the twentieth century on the one hand and restrained by a United States eager to maintain its own position of power in Asia on the other, Japan has had to pick a narrow path. Its strong economic links to Asia have necessitated continuous and cordial relations with its Asian neighbors, and, as the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s revealed, those links keep Asia and Japan's fortunes tied closely together. This book gives a comprehensive account of Japan's Asian policy, its historical background and its current bilateral and regional interactions, as well as explores how those have changed or remained the same in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. |