Routledge Handbook of Japanese Foreign Policy

427 Pages·2018·4.145 MB·English

by  McCarthy, Mary M(Editor)

Routledge Handbook of
Japanese Foreign Policy
From a nuclear North Korea and territorial disputes in the East China Sea, to global climate
changeandAsia-Pacificfree-tradeagreements,Japanisatthecenterofsomeofthemostchal-
lenging issues that the world faces today. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, comprising
contributions from the fields of politics, sociology, history, and gender studies, this handbook
createsacomprehensiveandinnovativeoverviewofthefield,investigatingthewideningvariety
ofinterests,sometimescompeting,thatconstituteJapaneseforeignpolicy.
Organizedtopically,itisdividedintosections,including:
(cid:2) Japan’sevolvingforeignpolicylandscape
(cid:2) Globalenvironmentalandsustainabledevelopment
(cid:2) Internationalandnationalsecurity
(cid:2) Internationalpoliticaleconomy
(cid:2) Internationalnormsandcivilsociety.
Providinganevaluationofthekeyactors,institutions,andnetworksinfluencingJapaneseforeign
policy,theRoutledgeHandbookofJapaneseForeignPolicyisanessentialresourceforstudents and
scholarsofJapaneseandAsianPolitics,InternationalRelations,andForeignPolicy.
MaryM.McCarthyisanAssociateProfessorofPoliticsandInternationalRelationsatDrake
University in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. She specializes in exploring the impact of domestic
politicsonforeignpolicymaking.

Routledge Handbook of
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Contents
List of illustrations viii
List of contributors x
Acknowledgments xv
Acronyms xvi
Japanese terms xxi
Introduction 1
Mary M. McCarthy
PART I
The evolving landscape of Japanese foreign policy 7
1 Japanese international relations and national identity gaps 9
Gilbert Rozman
2 Japan’s 2015 security legislation: change rooted firmly in continuity 22
Jeffrey W. Hornung
3 Departing from the postwar regime: the revision of the
‘peace constitution’ and Japan’s national identity 41
Yongwook Ryu
4 The chrysanthemum and the cool: cultural diplomacy and
soft power in Japan’s foreign policy 55
Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin
PART II
The global environment and sustainable development 71
5 Global environmental problems and Japanese foreign
environmental policy 73
Miranda Schreurs
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Contents
6 Japanese foreign policies on global climate change: from Kyoto
to Paris 88
Takashi Hattori
7 Push and pull by Japan for regional environmental cooperation:
transboundary air pollution in East Asia 102
Inkyoung Kim
8 Toward a sound material-cycle society: history of Japanese
policy and its interaction with international norms 119
Wakana Takahashi
9 Sustainable ocean management and the role of the
Japan Coast Guard 136
Miko Maekawa, Hiroshi Terashima, and Eka Higuchi
PART III
International and national security 153
10 Japan as a maritime power: deterrence, diplomacy, and
maritime security 155
Alessio Patalano
11 Disarmament and the non-proliferation policy of Japan 173
Nobumasa Akiyama
12 Japan’s territorial-disputes policy: success or failure? 188
Alexander Bukh
13 Smart power and Japan’s trouble-shooting approach to Southeast Asia 202
Yee-Kuang Heng
14 Peacebuilding in Japan’s foreign policy 216
Tadashi Iwami
15 National security at the crossroads: security interdependence
and Japan’s arms trade ban policy 232
Kyoko Hatakeyama
PART IV
International political economy 249
16 Economic diplomacy 251
Maaike Okano-Heijmans and Takaaki Asano
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17 The evolution, politics, and prospect of Japanese trade policy 267
Hidetaka Yoshimatsu
18 Japanese foreign direct investment in Thailand: promoting an
‘interactive’ institutional approach 281
Sierk A. Horn, Bernhard H. Wittek, and Chie Iguchi
19 Japanese development assistance as a multipurpose political tool 306
Marie So¨derberg
PART V
International norms and global civil society 319
20 Japan as a norm entrepreneur for human security 321
Kaoru Kurusu
21 Gender equality in Japan: internal policy processes and impact,
and foreign implications under Prime Minister
Abe’s Womenomics 337
Joyce Gelb and Naoko Kumagai
22 Precarious balances: history and memory in Japan’s foreign relations 353
Thomas U. Berger
23 The power and limits of the transnational “comfort women”
movement 366
Mary M. McCarthy
24 Japan’s whaling diplomacy: science, morality, and
international norms 381
Michael Strausz
Index 391
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Illustrations
Figures
3.1 Constitutional revision attempts along the two dimensions of nationalism
and military role 46
3.2 Public approval rating of the Abe Cabinet in 2016 48
3.3 Chinese vessels identified within contiguous zones and territorial sea
(total/month) 51
4.1 Doraemon and Mao in a local media shop, Shanghai, August 2004 57
4.2 Doraemon (center) at his inauguration ceremony as cultural ambassador
with Masahiko Ko(cid:2)mura (left), Minister for Foreign Affairs, March 2008 62
4.3 “Cool Japan” events are organized worldwide in publicized
campaigns sponsored by METI – Singapore, October 2011 63
6.1 Japan’s energy efficiency efforts after the oil crisis 90
6.2 Breakdown of Japan’s GHG emissions 95
6.3 Japan’s GHG emissions by sector and CO emissions from power generation 97
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6.4 GHG emission share and coverage of Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement 99
8.1 Conceptual diagram of EPR formation and development (Europe and Asia) 122
8.2 Cumulative EPR adoption 122
8.3 Municipal household waste and treatment methods in Japan 126
8.4 Municipal waste treatment costs 127
9.1 Organization of the JCG as of April 1, 2016 139
9.2 Japan Coast Guard: number of referrals of marine environmental crime 142
16.1 The trinity economic diplomacy in Japanese context 255
18.1 Top ten net FDI flows to Thailand by country 282
18.2 Bilateral institutional matrix 284
18.3 Annual average foreign exchange rate JPY to THB, 1948–2015 294
18.4 New FDI cases from Japan to Thailand between 1945 and 2015 298
Tables
2.1 Bill for Development of Legislation for Peace and Security
(平和安全法制整備法): package of ten laws 25
6.1 Japan’s intended nationally determined contribution 98
6.2 The Plan for Global Warming Countermeasures 99
7.1 Number of pages of national assessments for the periodic report of EANET 109
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Illustrations
7.2 Relative contributions in percentage for total nitrate dry and wet deposition
from China to Korea and Japan 112
7.3 Contributions of each country to monitoring data 113
8.1 Major international events related to building a sound material-cycle society 121
8.2 Countries adopting EPR systems 123
8.3 Timeline of Japan’s waste management policies 125
9.1 Establishment of coast guard agencies in ASEAN countries 144
14.1 Japan’s three-tier approach to peacebuilding 222
14.2 Japan’s ODA disbursement in the field of peacebuilding 223
18.1 Overview of relevant institutional perspectives 287
18.2 Average new FDI cases per year by phases 299
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