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Japan in Asia: Post-cold-war diplomacy

Japan in Asia: Post-cold-war diplomacy CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 251 Japan in Asia: Post-cold-war diplomacy, 4450 JPY/Tanaka Akihiko. Translated by Jean Connell Hoff, Tokyo, Japan, Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2017, 439 pp., ISBN 978-4-916055-63-7 Japan in Asia: post-cold-war diplomacy is a newly published English version of Akihiko Tanaka’s Aji no naka no Nihon from 2007. Through the book’s 11 accessibly written chapters Tanaka targets a wide audience and offers a glimpse into Japan’s diplomatic efforts and ambitions as he guides the reader through the most prominent political and economic turn of events in East Asia from the Cold War until today. Starting with the fall of Saigon in 1975 and Japan’s immediate provision of development assistance to a unified Vietnam, the some- what reluctantly critical reaction to the Tiananmen Square incident, and onwards to the on- and-off relationships with its immediate neighbors – China, North and South Korea – the book tells a tale of a country trying to find its place in international politics by building bridges – literally through foreign aid, and figuratively through promoting regionalism in Asia. While the book links Japanese diplomatic and political dealings with allies and adver- saries, actions and reactions to events of contemporary Asian history, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Japan in Asia: Post-cold-war diplomacy

Asplund, André
Contemporary Japan , Volume 30 (2): 3 – Jul 3, 2018
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Japan in Asia: Post-cold-war diplomacy

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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 251 Japan in Asia: Post-cold-war diplomacy, 4450 JPY/Tanaka Akihiko. Translated by Jean Connell Hoff, Tokyo, Japan, Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2017, 439 pp., ISBN 978-4-916055-63-7 Japan in Asia: post-cold-war diplomacy is a newly published English version of Akihiko Tanaka’s Aji no naka no Nihon from 2007. Through the book’s 11 accessibly written chapters Tanaka targets a wide audience and offers a glimpse into...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2018 André Asplund
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1869-2737
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1869-2729
DOI
10.1080/18692729.2018.1449409
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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 251 Japan in Asia: Post-cold-war diplomacy, 4450 JPY/Tanaka Akihiko. Translated by Jean Connell Hoff, Tokyo, Japan, Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2017, 439 pp., ISBN 978-4-916055-63-7 Japan in Asia: post-cold-war diplomacy is a newly published English version of Akihiko Tanaka’s Aji no naka no Nihon from 2007. Through the book’s 11 accessibly written chapters Tanaka targets a wide audience and offers a glimpse into Japan’s diplomatic efforts and ambitions as he guides the reader through the most prominent political and economic turn of events in East Asia from the Cold War until today. Starting with the fall of Saigon in 1975 and Japan’s immediate provision of development assistance to a unified Vietnam, the some- what reluctantly critical reaction to the Tiananmen Square incident, and onwards to the on- and-off relationships with its immediate neighbors – China, North and South Korea – the book tells a tale of a country trying to find its place in international politics by building bridges – literally through foreign aid, and figuratively through promoting regionalism in Asia. While the book links Japanese diplomatic and political dealings with allies and adver- saries, actions and reactions to events of contemporary Asian history,

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Contemporary Japan – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jul 3, 2018

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