More Shopping OptionsJapan's Asian Policy gives a timely, rich and balanced account of Japan’s renewed foreign policy toward its neighbors and of its neighbors’s responses. Japan’s diplomatic focus on the United States for the last half of a century and its difficulty with its own historical past has been a hindrance to its effort to construct a friendly and cooperative relationship with its Asian neighbors. Yet the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 led Japan to enhance its Asian links. Japan wanted to make best use of its steadily decreasing resources in order to help the region to recover and restore stability and vigor. The contributions in this collection explore Japan's decision to go Asian and the subsequent impact this shift has had on Japanese foreign policy in general.
Takashi Inoguchi is one of the most prolific and frequently cited writers on Japan and international affairs living in Japan. He appears regularly on BBC, Reuters and CNN.
Introduction—Takashi Inoguchi * Part I: Regional Contexts * America’s Liberal Grand Strategy in the Asia-Pacific—G. John Ikenberry * Beyond East Asia’s Economic Crisis: Development Paradise Lost?—Peter Drysdale * ASEAN and Japan’s Southeastern Regionalism— David Chee Meow Sheah * Part II: Japan’s Neighbors * Adjusting to “Strong-Strong” Relationship: China’s Calculus of Japan’s Asia Policy—Jianwei Wang * Responding to Japan’s Asia Policy: The Korean Calculus—Chung-In Moon and Jung-Hoon Kee * Russia’s Calculus and Japan’s Foreign Policy in Pacific Asia—Gilbert Rozman * Japan, Indonesia, and Policy Leadership in the Pacific: Economic Crisis and Foreign Policy Opportunities--Andrew MacIntyre * India’s Calculus of Japan’s Foreign Policy in PacificAsia—Purnendra Jain
