Summary Governments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are necessary to…
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Summary 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…
Summary The post-World War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness. The current generation has…
Summary Japan’s Economic Power and Security is the first study to investigate, in depth, Japan’s reaction to the recent diplomatic, military, and economic security crisis…
Summary Japan’s Security Policy and Ballistic Missile Defence provides an analysis of a very topical and controversial subject: Japan’s participation in the American ‘Star Wars’ missile…
Summary Long constrained as a security actor by constitutional as well as external factors, Japan now increasingly is called to play a greater role in…
Summary Is Japan re-emerging as a normal, or even a great, military power in regional and global security affairs? This Adelphi Paper assesses the overall…
Abstract Japan and China’s ability to manage their bilateral relationship is crucial for the stability of the East Asian region. It also has a global…
Summary Is Japan on a path towards assuming a greater military role internationally, or has the recent military normalisation ground to a halt since the…
Summary Has Japanese foreign policy changed in the post-Cold War era? On the surface, it appears to have been quite consistent since the end of…
Abstract How can Japan put its past behind? Scholars, journalists, and activists frequently argue that Japan cannot solve its “history problem” unless it follows West…
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Summary Japan’s Security Relations with China since 1989 raises the crucial question of whether Japan’s political leadership which is still preoccupied with finding a new political…
Abstract Over the past decade, the US-Japan alliance has been strengthened and subtly but substantively transformed. In response to a range of domestic changes and…
Abstract For almost four decades, China has disputed Japan’s sovereignty of several small rocky islands in the East China Sea. Despite a June 2008 joint…
Abstract The East China Sea is one of the last unexpected high-potential resource areas located near large markets. But the development of oil and gas…
