The Courteous Power

The Courteous Power
Author: John D. Ciorciari
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2021-11-08
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 047205497X

Examining the pivotal relationship between Japan and Southeast Asia, as it has changed and endured into the Indo-Pacific Era

Tensions of Empire

Tensions of Empire
Author: Ken'ichi Gotō
Publisher: NUS Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2003
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789971692810

Japan's Relations with Southeast Asia

Japan's Relations with Southeast Asia
Author: Peng Er Lam
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0415809665

The Fukuda Doctrine has been the official blueprint to Japan's foreign policy towards Southeast Asia since 1977. This book examines the Fukuda Doctrine in the context of Japan-Southeast Asia relations, and discusses the possibility of a non-realist approach in the imagining and conduct of international relations in East Asia. The collapse of 54 years of Liberal Democratic Party rule and the advent of a new Democratic Party of Japan raises the question of whether the Fukuda Doctrine is still relevant as a framework to analyse Tokyo's policy and behaviour towards Southeast Asia. Looking at its origins and norms amidst three decades of change, the book argues that the Fukuda Doctrine is still relevant to Japan-Southeast Asian relations, and should be extended to relations between China and Japan if an East Asian Community is to be built. The book goes on to discuss the Fukuda Doctrine in relation to the power shift in Asia, including the revitalization of Japan's security role. By providing a detailed understanding of a non-western perspective of Japan's relationship with Southeast Asia, this book is a useful contribution for students and scholars of Asian Studies, Politics and International Relations.

Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia

Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia
Author: Taizo Miyagi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351592467

More than any other region in the world, Asia has witnessed tremendous change in the post-war era. A continent once engulfed by independence and revolution, and later by the Cold War and civil war, has now been transformed into the world’s most economically dynamic region. What caused this change in Asia? The key to answering this question lies in the post-war history of maritime Asia and, in particular, the path taken by the maritime nation of Japan. Analysing the importance of Japan’s relationship with Southeast Asia, this book therefore aims to illustrate the hidden trail left by Japan during the period of upheaval that has shaped Asia today—an era marked by the American Cold War strategy, the dissolution of the British Empire in Asia, and the rise of China. It provides a comprehensive account of post-war maritime Asia, making use of internationally sourced primary materials, as well as declassified Japanese government papers. As such, Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese Politics, Asian Politics and Asian History.

Seeking Sakyamuni

Seeking Sakyamuni
Author: Richard M. Jaffe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0226391159

Though fascinated with the land of their tradition’s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking Śākyamuni, Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first Japanese Buddhists who traveled to South Asia in search of Buddhist knowledge beginning in 1873. Analyzing the impact of these voyages on Japanese conceptions of Buddhism, he argues that South Asia developed into a pivotal nexus for the development of twentieth-century Japanese Buddhism. Jaffe shows that Japan’s growing economic ties to the subcontinent following World War I fostered even more Japanese pilgrimage and study at Buddhism’s foundational sites. Tracking the Japanese travelers who returned home, as well as South Asians who visited Japan, Jaffe describes how the resulting flows of knowledge, personal connections, linguistic expertise, and material artifacts of South and Southeast Asian Buddhism instantiated the growing popular consciousness of Buddhism as a pan-Asian tradition—in the heart of Japan.

Japanese Foreign Policy Today

Japanese Foreign Policy Today
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781349625314

The US remains the leading world power, but across the Pacific, Japan has the world s second largest economy and great international economic clout. Some voices in the international arena have urged Japan to play more constructive and politically active roles in the international arena. This volume collects essays analyzing the key issues in Japan s international relations as it heads toward a new world order: the pressing global and regional issues and their domestic implications, the actors, and the major policy directions.

The Japanese in Colonial Southeast Asia

The Japanese in Colonial Southeast Asia
Author: Takashi Shiraishi
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501718932

This collection of essays by Japanese scholars deals with the role played by the Japanese in colonial Southeast Asia, particularly the economic impact of Japan on these nations before and after World War II. The introductory essay provides an overview of the Japanese presence in this region.

The International Relations of Japan and South East Asia

The International Relations of Japan and South East Asia
Author: Sueo Sudō
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780415255813

The International Relations of Japan and South East Asia asks three main questions: how and when has a new South East Asian regionalism been set in motion? what is the nature of Japanese leadership and networking in maintaining and promoting that new regionalism?; and, given the current economic and political crisis, what will happen to regionalism in the future? This work is an invaluable resource for students and scholars as it gives a complete overview of Japanese foreign policy and Japan-South East Asian relations.

World War II and Southeast Asia

World War II and Southeast Asia
Author: Gregg Huff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781107492011

From December 1941, Japan, as part of its plan to build an East Asian empire and secure oil supplies essential for war in the Pacific, swiftly took control of Southeast Asia. Japanese occupation had a devastating economic impact on the region. Japan imposed country and later regional autarky on Southeast Asia, dictated that the region finance its own occupation, and sent almost no consumer goods. GDP fell by half everywhere in Southeast Asia except Thailand. Famine and forced labour accounted for most of the 4.4 million Southeast Asian civilian deaths under Japanese occupation. In this ground-breaking new study, Gregg Huff provides the first comprehensive account of the economies and societies of Southeast Asia during the 1941-1945 Japanese occupation. Drawing on materials from 25 archives over three continents, his economic, social and historical analysis presents a new understanding of Southeast Asian history and development before, during and after the Pacific War.

Network Power

Network Power
Author: Peter J. Katzenstein
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801483738

This collection of scholarly papers examines the influence of Japanese dominance on the politics, economies, and cultures of Southeast Asia. A major question probed is whether Japan has now attained, through economic power, the predominance it once sought through military means. Japan's hegemonic system is not the first to work over the area--before it were those from China, from Britain, from the United States. This collection's comparative perspective acknowledges the distinctiveness of Asian regionalism and Japan's changing role with it. As the subtitle of this book indicates, it is concerned with Japan and Asia and not with Japan in Asia, thus suggesting a complex and at the same time problematical regional identity for Japan.