Japanese Foreign Policy and ASEAN

Author: Qiao Linsheng
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: The book primarily discusses several aspects, including war compensation and Japan's return to Southeast Asia, Japan's economic policies toward ASEAN, foreign policies, security policies, regional cooperation policies, and Japan-ASEAN relations in the East-West and North-South issues. Japan's policies toward ASEAN are a progressive and gradually enriched policy framework, with economic relations always being its core or foundation. However, at different stages of development, Japan's focus on ASEAN policies varies, evolving from emphasizing economic ties to highlighting political and security roles, and then strengthening regional cooperation. This reflects Japan's development strategy from an economic giant to a political giant in its ASEAN policies. The book employs an interdisciplinary approach combining international relations, history, economics, and political science, for the first time, to comprehensively and systematically analyze Japan's policies toward ASEAN over the past four decades. It systematically and comprehensively reviews and summarizes Japan's policies toward ASEAN, presenting some new perspectives and insights, to some extent filling the gaps and shortcomings in research on this field by domestic and international scholars.