Japan's Foreign Policy, 1945-2003: The Quest for a Proactive Policy

Glossary......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
Maps......Page 23
1. From the Meiji Restoration to the Japan-Russia War......Page 25
2. WW I and the Washington Conference......Page 33
3. From the Manchurian Incident to the War in the Pacific......Page 44
1. The defeat and new values......Page 55
2. The American occupation......Page 59
3. The new constitution......Page 62
4. Political reforms and economic recovery......Page 67
5. The 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty......Page 70
6. Japanese security policy and the Japan-US Security Treaty......Page 76
1. The revision of the Security Treaty......Page 79
2. The reversion of Okinawa......Page 88
3. Host Nations Support and Guidelines for Defence Cooperation of 1978......Page 94
4. The Western Alliance under Nakasone and Reagan......Page 98
5. The end of the Cold War and \'Japan\'s Defeat\' in the 1991 Gulf War......Page 101
6. September Eleven and thereafter......Page 109
7. The revision of the constitution......Page 110
1. The situation until the end of the 1960\'s......Page 111
2. Japan-US economic relations in the 1970\'s......Page 113
3. Japan-US economic relations in the 1980\'s......Page 119
4. Trade conflicts from the end of the 1980\'s to the beginning of the 1990\'s......Page 127
5. Japan-US economic relations in the first half of the 1990\'s......Page 132
6. Japan\'s economic situation at the turn of the century......Page 138
1. Diplomatic relations with Taiwan and economic relations with mainland China......Page 143
2. Establishment of diplomatic relations with the People\'s Republic of China......Page 148
3. The conclusion of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship......Page 155
4. Relationships over the 1980\'s......Page 161
5. Relationships from the 1990\'s onwards......Page 170
6. Ways ahead......Page 179
1. Establishment of diplomatic relations with South Korea......Page 181
2. The first 30 years: economic relations developed but political relations were troubled......Page 187
3. The turn of the century: from the Murayama Statement to Prime Minister Koizumi......Page 193
4. The North Korean situation (until 2001)......Page 201
5. Japan-North Korea relations (until 2001)......Page 208
6. Prime Minister Koizumi\'s visit to North Korea and rising tension......Page 213
1. Beginning of relations: war reparations and early policy initiatives......Page 219
2. Strengthening the relationship: the Fukuda Doctrine and the establishment of PECC......Page 223
3. Development of the Asian economies and the creation of APEC......Page 229
4. Security cooperation after the Cold War: ARF and NEACD......Page 234
5. In search of new cooperation: ASEAN plus Three and FTA......Page 238
6. In the Eurasian continent: India and Silk Road countries......Page 243
7. To the Pacific: Australia and the Pacific Island countries......Page 247
1. The end of the Pacific War: beginning of the disconnection......Page 252
2. The San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951......Page 255
3. The Khrushchev period: the Joint Declaration of 1956 and the Memorandum of 1960......Page 257
4. The Brezhnev period: Detente and thereafter......Page 262
5. Gorbachev\'s Perestroika: a new overture......Page 267
6. Yeltsin\'s Russia: emergence of a new world......Page 272
7. President Putin and future perspectives......Page 280
1. A prolonged postwar period (1945–1969)......Page 285
2. Trade conflicts with Europe (1969–1991)......Page 288
3. A wide range of cooperation between Japan and Europe during the 1990\'s......Page 292
4. Asia-Europe cooperation......Page 298
5. Wounded feelings from the Pacific War: Great Britain and the Netherlands......Page 303
6. An action plan for EU-Japan cooperation......Page 309
1. Energy and oil diplomacy in Japan......Page 313
2. Relations with the Gulf countries and wars in the Persian Gulf......Page 324
3. Relations with the countries involved in the Middle Eastern peace process......Page 335
4. New endeavours to enlarge the scope of foreign policy......Page 337
1. Japan\'s Official Development Assistance (ODA) in perspective......Page 340
2. Postwar reconstruction and reparations......Page 342
3. Development in volume......Page 345
4. Qualitative improvement of yen loans......Page 348
5. Regional diversification......Page 349
6. Forms of ODA and international polemics......Page 352
7. Conceptualization efforts of ODA......Page 356
8. Current problems and future perspectives......Page 365
1. Postwar international economic organizations and Japan\'s accession......Page 368
2. Macroeconomic policy and international financial situation......Page 372
3. International trade......Page 375
4. Economic assistance through multilateral organizations......Page 388
5. New agenda: global environment, population and infectious diseases, and information technology......Page 392
1. Joining the United Nations......Page 397
2. The United Nations during the Cold War......Page 399
3. After the Cold War: UN reforms and Japan......Page 402
4. After the Cold War: multinational forces and peacekeeping operations......Page 408
5. September Eleven and Eastern Timor......Page 415
6. Japan\'s participation in Iraq reconstruction and further challenges......Page 420
7. New agenda: disarmament and non-proliferation, conflict prevention, and human security......Page 423
1. Past perspectives......Page 427
2. Seven agendas for the future......Page 439
3. Five unresolved issues from the past......Page 446
4. Epilogue: the flow of history and human efforts......Page 453
Bibliography......Page 457
Appendices......Page 463
Index......Page 495