Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations

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Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations
Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Challenging International Law and Toward a Global IR?
	Chapter 1
	How Did Two Daos Perceive the International Differently?
		A Quasi Solidarity?
		Ethos and Social Imaginary
		Perceptions of the International in Japan and China
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 2
	Japan’s Early Challenge to Eurocentrism and the World Court
		The Japanese Government and the World Court
		Japan’s Turn to Civilizational Egocentrism
		Conclusion: The Legacy of Japan’s Early Attempt to Challenge Eurocentrism
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3
	Kōtarō Tanaka (1890–1974) and Global International Relations
		Prelude to Tanaka’s Latin American Informal Diplomacy
		National Diplomacy in Practice: Tanaka’s Intercultural Activities
		Tanaka’s Latin American–Based IR Theory
		Notes
		References
Empire-Building or in Search for Global Peace?
	Chapter 4
	Unlearning Asia
		Another Story of “Region”?
		Re-Contextualizing Datsu-A-Ron
		Past, Present, and Future
		Conclusion: Region as Alternative?
		Note
		References
	Chapter 5
	Pursuing a More Dynamic Concept of Peace
		Establishing the IPR
		The IPR in the 1920s: Peace as Preserving the Status Quo
		The IPR after the 1930s: Searching a Renewed Concept of Peace
		The IPR and the Contemporary World
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 6
	Rethinking the Liberal/Pluralist Vision of Japan’s Colonial Studies
		Colonial Studies in Japan
		Civilization and Global Civil Society
		Dehumanizing Effects of Colonization and Colonial Economic Development
		Autonomy of the Colonized
		Promoting Autonomy in the Liberal International Order
		Conclusion
		References
Local(ized) Japanese Political Concepts for Twenty-First Century International Relations
	Chapter 7
	Who Are the People?
		Kokumin, Minzoku, and Shimin: Communist Discourses, 1945–1955
		Differences in Party Platforms: 1945–1964
		The Rise of Shimin: 1960–1970
		Two Connotations of Shimin: 1970–1996
		Backlash against Shimin and the Return to Kokumin: 1996–2009
		And the Present: From 2009 to Today
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8
	Amae as Emotional Interdependence
		Dependence and Dependency in IR
		Amae: Emotional Interdependence
		Japan’s Nuclear Energy and the United States
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9
	The Pitfalls in the Project of Overcoming Western Modernity
		A Reversal of Superiority: The Emergence of Western “Universality”
		Overcoming Modernity and Pan-Asianism as a Rhetoric
		The Logic of Violent Paternalism in Asianism
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Forming an Imagined Community, yet Reaching People Globally?
	Chapter 10
	From Failure to Fame
		Part 1: Names, Vignettes, and Failure
		Part 2: “Shōin” Becomes a Hero
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11
	Hayao Miyazaki as a Political Thinker
		Culture as Power
		Japan’s Soft Power Diplomacy Values and Right Wing Kyoto School Philosophers’ Cultural Politics
		Culture and Self-Reflection in Tosaka’s Theory of Morality
		Hayao Miyazaki’s Anime and Moral Reflection
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12
	Who’s the Egg? Who’s the Wall?
		The Wall versus the Egg
		Hong Kong since the Umbrella Movement
		Egg as Food or as Life?
		An Egg, and so Much More
		Who’s the Wall?
		On to Ontology
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
		Unique, but in What Sense?
		The Self in the Japanese Formula
		In Lieu of Conclusion: A Dialogue without Boundary
		Notes
		References
	Index
	About the Contributors
	About the Editors