Snow on the pine : Japan's quest for a leadership role in Asia
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Snow on the pine : Japan's quest for a leadership role in Asia
World Scientific, c2010
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Japan's quest for a leadership role in Asia
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Snow on the Pine presents a compelling view of the Japanese foreign policy that runs counter to the common wisdom reducing Japan's post-war efforts to the pursuit of purely commercial interests. This book takes a new approach - the eventual Japanese defeat in the Second World War did not transform Japan into an "exceptional state" seeking only economic interests. Like any other nations, economic issues have always played a crucial role in policy decisions. However, this is but only one amongst the many interweaving threads determining foreign policy decisions.In the authors' eyes, Japan's foreign policy is characterized by the drive to dominate and influence the East Asia region, which has been a consistent motivation since the days of the Meiji restoration. Thus, the post-war period in this analysis provides a continuation rather than a break with the country's previous history. Tactics, and even strategies, may have changed over time to meet the challenges of the ever evolving economic and political environments but the overall objective has essentially remained constant. The snow melts, but the pine endures.
Table of Contents
- Unpacking Japanese Foreign Policy: The Case Against Conventional Wisdom
- A Modern Historical Background: Tumultuous Japan: Regional Diplomacy: 1868-1965
- A Junior Partner: Japanese Entanglements with the US and Asia 1965-1980
- Rising Power: Attempts to Recapture Its Role in the Eighties
- The 1990s - Case Studies in Diplomacy: Becoming a Full Fledged Power in the Nineties: The Purpose behind Peacekeeping Operations
- More Peacekeeping Operations: The Case of East Timor
- Hampered Diplomacy: Japanese Overtures to North Korea
- Using Economic Diplomacy: Japan and the Asian Meltdown
- Intellectual Leadership: Japan's Relationship with Vietnam
- The Meaning of Japanese Diplomacy
- The Economic and Political Context of Japanese Foreign Policy: Tatamae and Honne: Understanding the Post-War Japanese Economy
- The Long Arm of the Japanese Economy: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Post-War Japan.
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