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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 253 Yamamoto, R. (2017). The securitization of Japan’s ODA: New strategies in changing regional and domestic contexts. In A. Asplund & M. Söderberg (Eds.), Japanese development cooperation: The making of an aid architecture pivoting to Asia (pp. 72—89). London, UK and New York NY: Routledge. André Asplund Stockholm School of Economics, European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS), Stockholm, Sweden andre.asplund@gmail.com © 2018 André Asplund https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1449409 edited by Sven Saaler, Kudō Akira and Tajima Nobuo, London, Brill, 2017, EUR €109/ USD $126 (hardback) 437 pages ISBN: 978-90-04-34542-3 Generally speaking, Asian–German relation is a growing field, which can be shown by the number of panels devoted to related topics at the annual German Studies Association (GSA) conferences in the USA every year since 2009. Also, similar panels were staged at the last International Association of German Studies (IVG) convention at Shanghai. Furthermore, recently the new ‘Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies’ was launched. In this sense, the volume reviewed here is a welcome contribution to a very dynamic field of study. Similar to various other recent edited volumes dealing with Asian–German relations like Shen and Rosentock (2015), Beyond Alterity: German Encounters with Modern East Asia, or Cho, Roberts, and