JAPAN IN THE WORLD POLITICAL ECONOMY

Reading List compiled by Christina Davis and Jennifer Oh (last updated July 2003)

 

 

Meiji Foreign Policy

Barnhart, Michael A. (1995). Japan and the World Since 1868. (New York: St. Martin's Press).

Chang, C.(1931). The Anglo-Japanese Alliance. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Jansen, Marius. (1968). “Modernization and Foreign Policy in Meiji Japan.” pp. 149-188 in Political Development in Modern Japan, edited by Ward (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

_____. (1980). Japan and Its World: Two Centuries of Change. (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Love, Robert W. (1995). “Pearl Harbor Revisited.”  (Basingstoke, Macmillan).

Nish, Ian. (1966). The Anglo-Japanese Alliance: the Diplomacy of Two Island Empires, 1894-1907. London, Athlone Press.

 

Imperialism and War

Barnhart, M. (1987). Japan Prepares for Total War: the Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.

Crowley, J. B. (1970). A New Deal for Japan and Asia: One Road to Pearl Harbor. Modern East Asia: Essays in Interpretation. J.B. Crowley. New York, Harcourt, Brace and World: 235-264.

Cumings, B. (1984). The Legacy of Japanese Colonialism in Korea. The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. R. Myers and M. Peattie. Princeton, Princeton University Press: 478-496.

Dower, John. (1979). Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954. Cambridge, MA, Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University.

_____. (1986). War Without Mercy. New York, Pantheon. pp. 122-49.

Duus, Peter, Ramon Myers, and Mark Peattie. (1996). “The Japanese Wartime Empire 1931-45.”  Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Gann, L. (1984). "Western and Japanese Colonialism: Some Preliminary Comparisons. The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. R. H. Myers and M. R. Peattie. Princeton, Princeton University Press: 42-69.

Hicks, George. (1994). The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War. (New York: W.W. Norton).

Iriye, Akira. (1970). Imperialism in East Asia. Modern East Asia: Essays in Interpretation. J. B. Crowley. New York, Harcourt, Brace, and World: 122-149.

_____. (1981). Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.

Russett, B. (1967). “Pearl Harbor: Deterrence Theory and Decision Theory.” Journal of Peace Research 4: 89-105.

Sakamoto, Y. (1988). The International Context of the Occupation of Japan. Democratizing Japan: the Allied Occupation. R. E. Ward and Y. Sakamoto. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press: 42-69.

Snyder, J. (1991). Myths of Empire. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press. pp. 112-152.

 

Foreign Policy-making Process and Diplomacy

Blaker, Michael. (1977). Japanese International Negotiating Style. New York, Columbia University Press.

_____. (1993). Evaluating Japan’s Diplomatic Performance.  Japan's Foreign Policy. Curtis, G.  New York, M.E. Sharpe.

Calder, Kent. (1997). “Domestic Constraints and Japan's emerging International Role.” pp. 193-206 in The Vitality of Japan: Sources of National Strength and Weakness, edited by Armand Clesse (New York: St. Martin's Press).

_____. (1997). “The Institutions of Japanese Foreign Policy.” pp. 1-24 in The Process of Japanese Foreign Policy, edited by Richard Grant (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs).

Cowhey, Peter. (1995). “The Politics of Foreign Policy in Japan and the U.S.” pp. 203-225 in Structure and Policy in Japan and the U.S., edited by Peter Cowhey and Mathew D. McCubbins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Drifte, R. (1990). Japan's Foreign Policy. London, Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Fingleton, Eammon. (1995). “Japan's Invisible Leviathan.” Foreign Affairs  vol.74, no.2: 69-85.

Hayao, Kenji. (1993). The Japanese Prime Minister and Public Policy. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press).

Igarashi, Takeshi. (1985). “Peace-Making and Party Politics: The Formation of the Domestic Foreign-Policy System in Postwar Japan.” Journal of Japanese Studies  vol.11, no.2: 323-356.

Johnson, Chalmers. (1995). Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company).

Mochizuki, M. (1995). Japan: Domestic Change and Foreign Policy. Santa Monica, CA, RAND  National Defense Research Institute.

Rosecrance, R. and J. Taw (1990). “Japan and the Theory of Leadership.” World Politics 42(2): 184-209.

Rosenbluth, Frances McCall. (1996). “Internationalization and Electoral Politics in Japan.” pp. 137-156 in Internationalization and Domestic Politics, edited by Robert Keohane and Helen V. Milner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Scalapino, R., Ed. (1977). The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Schoppa, L. (1997). Bargaining With Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do. New York, Columbia University Press.

_________ (1993). “Two-level Games and Bargaining Outcomes: Why Gaiatsu Succeeds in Japan in Some Cases but not Others.” International Organization 47(3): 353-386.

_________ (1996). Deconstructing Power: Explaining the Declining Effectiveness of U.S. Pressure on Japan,  Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Tamamoto, Masaru. (1993). “The Japan that wants to be liked.” pp. 37-54 in Japan's Emerging Global Role, edited by Danny Unger and Paul J. Blackburn (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers).

 

Security Policy

Bennett, Andrew, Joseph Lepgold, and Danny Unger. (1994). “Burden-sharing in the Persian Gulf War.” International Organization Winter: 39-75.

Berger, Thomas. (1996). Norms, Identity, and National Security in Germany and Japan. The Culture of National Security. P. Katzenstein. New York, Columbia University Press: 317-356.

_____. (1993). “From Sword to Chrysanthemum.” International Security  vol.17, no.4: 119-150.

Brown, Eugene. (1994). “Japanese Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: Threat Perceptions and State Options.” Asian Survey  vol.34, no.5: 430-446.

Christensen, Thomas.  “China, the U.S.-Japan Alliance, and the Security Dilemma in East Asia.”  International Security

      23:4 (Spring 1999): 49-80.

Drifte, Reinhard.  “An Old Architecture for Peace?  Reconfiguring Japan Among Unreconfigured Great Powers.”  The

      Pacific Review 12:3 (1999): 479-489.

Friedberg, Aaron L. (1993/94). “Ripe for Rivalry: Prospects for Peace in Multipolar Asia.” International Security  vol.18, no.3: 5-33.

Green, Michael. Arming Japan: Defense Production, Alliance Politics, and the Postwar 

        Search For Autonomy.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Green, Michael and Patrick Cronin., eds.  The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Past, Present, and Future.  New York: Council on 

       Foreign Relations Press, 1999.

Heginbotham, Eric and Richard Samuels.  “Mercantile Realism and Japanese Foreign Policy.”  International Security 22:4 (

       Spring 1998):171-203.

Heginbotham, Eric and Richard Samuels.  “Japan’s Duel Hedge.”  Foreign Affairs 81:5 ( Fall 2002):110-121.

Inoguchi, Takashi. (1991). “Japan's Response to the Gulf Crisis: An Analytic Overview.” The Journal of Japanese Studies  vol.17, no.2: 257-273.

Johnson, Chalmers, and E.B. Keehn. (1995). “The Pentagon's Ossified Strategy.” Foreign Affairs  vol.74, no.4: 103-114.

Johnson, Chalmers. (1993). “The State and Japanese Grand Strategy.” pp. 201-223 in The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy, edited by Richard Rosecrance and Arthur Stein

_____. (1995).  “Reflections on the Dilemma of Japanese Defense,” in Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company) pp. 264-280.

Katzenstein, Peter and N. Okawara (1993). “Japan's National Security: Structures, Norms, and Policies.” International Security 17(4): 84-118.

Katzenstein, Peter. (1996). Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Mochizuki, Mike. (1996). “Toward a New Japan-U.S. Alliance.” Japan Quarterly  vol.43, no.3: 4-16.

Mochizuki, Mike. (1983-84). “Japan's Search for Strategy.” International Security 8(Winter): 152-179.

Nye, Joseph. (1995). “The Case for Deep Engagement.” Foreign Affairs  vol.74, no.4: 103-114.

Nye, Joseph (2001).  “The ‘Nye Report’: Six Years Later.”  International Review of the Asia-Pacific 1: 95-103.

Ozawa, Ichiro. (1994). Blueprint for a New Japan. (Tokyo: Kodansha).

Pharr, S. (1993). Japan’s Defensive Foreign Policy and the Politics of Burden Sharing. Japan's Foreign Policy. Curtis, G.  New York, M.E. Sharpe.

Purrington, Courtney. (1992). “Tokyo's Policy Responses During the Gulf War and the Impact of the 'Iraqi Shock' on Japan.” Pacific Affairs  vol.65, no.2: 161-181.

Pyle, Kenneth. (1993). “Japan and the Future of Collective Security.” in Japan's Emerging Global Role, edited by Danny Unger and Paul J. Blackburn (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers) pp.99-117.

Renwick, Neil. (1995). Japan's Alliance Politics and Defence Production. (New York: St. Martin's Press).

Samuels, R. (1994). Rich Nation Strong Army: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.

Spruyt, Hendrik.  “A New Architecture for Peace?  Reconfiguring Japan Among Great Powers.”  The Pacific Review 11:3

      (1998): 364-388.

Swain, Michael, et al.  Japan and Ballistic Missile Defense.  Santa Monica: Rand, 2001.

Tanaka, Akihiko. (1994). “Japan's Security Policy in the 1990s.” pp. 28-56 in Japan's International Agenda, edited by Yoichi Funabashi (New York: New York University Press).

Unger, Danny, Andy Bennett, and Joe Lepgold. (1997). Burden Sharing in the Persian Gulf War. (New York: St. Martin's Press).

Weinstein, Martin. (1971). Japan's Postwar Defense Policy, 1947-1968. (New York: Columbia University Press).

Zeringue, Marshall, and Daniel Kritenbrink. (1994). “Japanese Security Policy in a Changing International Environment.” Defense Analysis  vol.10, no.2: 113-140.

 

Economic Relations

Akihiko, Tanaka (translated by Jean Connell Hoff).  The New Middle Ages: The World System in the 21st Century.  Tokyo: The International House of Japan, 2002.

Altman, Roger. (1994). “Why Pressure Tokyo?” Foreign Affairs May-June: 2-12.

Berger, S. and R. Dore, Eds. (1996). National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.

Bergsten, C. Fred, and Marcus Noland. (1993). Reconcilable Differences? United States-Japan Economic Conflict. (Washington D.C.: Institute for International Economics). 

Bhagwati, Jagdish. (1996). “The US-Japan Car Dispute: A Monumental Mistake.” International Affairs 72(2): 261-279.

Boonekamp, L. (1995). Agriculture in Japan: Current Issues and Possible Implications of the Uruguay Round Agreement. Tokyo, National Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

Calder, K. (1988). “Japanese Foreign Economic Policy Formation: Explaining the Reactive State.” World Politics 40(4): 517-541.

Destler, I. M. and H. Sato (1982). Coping with U.S.-Japan Economic Conflicts. Lexington, MA, D.C. Heath.

Destler, I.M. (1997). Has conflict passed its prime? : Japanese and American approaches to trade and economic policy. (College Park, MD: Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, School of Public Affairs) 35 pages.

Doner, Richard F. (1993). “Japanese Foreign Investment and the Creation of a Pacific Asian Region.” pp. 159-216 in Regionalism and Rivalry: Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia, edited by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Miles Kahler (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

_____. (1995). “Does Hegemony Matter?: the Reorganization of the Pacific Political Economy.” World Politics  vol.45, no.4: 501-525.

Flamm, Kenneth. (1996). Mismanaged Trade? Strategic Policy and the Semiconductor Industry. (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press).

Florida, Richard, and Martin Kenney. (1991). “Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the US: the Case of Automative Transplants.” pp. 91-114 in Japan and the Global Economy: Issues and Trends in the 1990s, edited by Jonathan Morris (London: Routledge).

George, Aurelia. (1988). Rice Politics in Japan, Australia-Japan Research Centre

Gilpin, Robert. (1997). “The Japan Problem: Economic challenge or strategic threat?” pp. 58-88 in The Vitality of Japan: Sources of National Strength and Weakness, edited by Armand Clesse (New York: St. Martin's Press).

Givens, W.L. (1995). “Economic Cocaine: The American Exchange Rate Addiction.” Foreign Affairs  vol.74, no.4: 17-21.

Green, Michael.  Japan’s Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy Challenges in an Era of Uncertain Power.  New York: Palgrave, 

       2001. (Ch. 8)

Grimes, William.  “Japan and Globalization: From Opportunity to Constraint.”  Asian Perspective 23:4 (1999): 167-198.

Grimes, William and Urike Schaede., eds.  Japan’s Managed Globalization: Adapting to the Twenty-First Century.  New

       York: M.E. Sharpe, INC., 2003. 

Hayami, Yujiro. (1988). Japanese Agriculture Under Siege: the Political Economy of Agricultural Policies. London, Macmillan Press.

Heginbotham, Eric and Richard Samuels.  “Mercantile Realism and Japanese Foreign Policy.”  International Security 22:4 

       (Spring 1998): 171-203.

Helleiner, Eric. (1989). “Money and Influence: Japanese Power in the International Monetary and Financial System.” Millenium: Journal of International Studies  vol.18, no.3: 343-358.

Inoguchi, T. and D. Okimoto, Eds. (1988). The Political Economy of Japan: The Changing International Context. Stanford, Stanford University Press.

Katz, Richard. (January 1998). “Kodak's Moment.” Oriental Economist. Pp. 7-9.

Kraus, Ellis. (1993). “U.S.-Japan Negotiations on Construction and Semiconductors, 1985-1988.” pp. 265-299 in Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics, edited by Peter Evans (Berkeley: University of California Press).

Kuroda, Makoto. (1990). “Super 301 and Japan.” pp. 232-252 in Aggressive Unilateralism: America's 301 Trade Policy and the World Trading System, edited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Hugh Patrick.

Lincoln, Edward.  Troubled Times: U.S.-Japan Trade Relations in the 1990s.  Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution,

       1999.  (Ch. 2,3,6)

Mastanduno, M. (1991). “Do Relative Gains Matter? America's Response to Japanese Industrial Policy.” International Security 16(1): 73-113.

Mikanagi, Yumiko. (1996). Japan's Trade Policy. (New York: Routledge).

Miyashita, Akitoshi and Yoichiro Sato., eds.  Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Domestic Interests, American

        Pressure, and Regional Integration.  New York: Palgrave, 2001. (Ch. 8-9)

Mizuma, F. (1996). The GATT Uruguay Round Agricultural Negotiations and Implications of the Final Agreement. Cambridge, US-Japan Program, Harvard University.

Mulgan, Aurelia George. (1997). “The Role of Foreign Pressure (gaiatsu) in Japan's Agricultural Trade Liberalization.” The Pacific Review  vol.10, no.2: 165-209.

Pempel, TJ.  “Structural Gaiatsu-International Finance and Political Change in Japan.”  Comparative Political Studies 32:8

       (December 1999): 907-932.

Prestowitz, C. (1990). Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan and How to Reclaim It. New York, Basic Books.

Reich, M., Y. Endo, et al. (1986). Agriculture: the Political Economy of Structural Change". America Versus Japan. T. K. McCraw. Boston, Harvard Business School Press.

Samuels, Richard. (1996). “Japan as a technological superpower.”  Japan Policy Research Institute working paper.

Sato, Yoichiro. (1996). “Sticky Efforts: Japan's Rice Market Opening and U.S.-Japan Transnational Lobbying.” in Japan Engaging the World: A Century of International Encounter, edited by Harumi Befu (Denver: Center for Japan Studies, Teikyo Loretto Heights University).

Saxonhouse, Gary. (1994). “The economics of the U.S.-Japan framework talks.”  (Stanford: Hoover Institution) 15 pages.

Stallings, Barbara, and Wolfgang Streeck. (1995). “Capitalisms in Conflict? The US, Europe, and Japan in the post-cold war world.” pp. 67-99 in Global Change, Regional Response: The New International Context of Development, edited by Barbara Stallings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Stern, Robert ed. Issues and Options for U.S.-Japan Trade Policies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

Steven, Rob. (1995). Japan and the New World Order: Global Investments, Trade, and Finance. (Basingstoke, London: MacMillan).

Todd, Jeanmarie. (1997). “Making Trade Talks Work: Lessons From Recent History.”  (Tokyo: The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan).

Wade, Robert. (1995). “Japan, the World Bank, and the Art of Paradigm Maintenance: The East Asian Miracle in Political Perspective.” New Left Review. 3-36.

Wan, Ming. (1995). “Spending Strategies in World Politics: How Japan Has Used Its Economic Power in the Past Decade.” International Studies Quarterly  vol.39: 85-108.

Yamamura, K. (1986). Caveat Emptor: The Industrial Policy of Japan. Strategic Trade Policy and the New International Economics. P. Krugman. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press: 169-209.

Yamamura, K., Ed. (1990). Japan's Economic Structure: Should it Change? Seattle, WA, Society for Japanese Studies.

 

Japan’s Future Economic Prospects

Asher, David. (1996). “What Became of the Japanese "Miracle"?” Orbis Spring: 215-234.

Helweg, Diana.  “Japan: A Rising Sun?”  Foreign Affairs 79:4 (2000): 26-34.

Hirsh, Michael, and E. Keith Henry. (1997). “The Unraveling of Japan Inc.” Foreign Affairs  vol.76, no.2: 11-16.

Katz, Richard. (1997). “Japan's Self-Defeating Trade Policy: Mainframe Economics in a PC World.” The Washington Quarterly  vol.20, no.2: 153-181.

Morris, Jonathan. (1991). “Japan and the Global Economy: Issues and Trends in the 1990s.”  (London: Routledge).

Mulgan, Aurelia.  “Japan: A Setting Sun?”  Foreign Affairs 79:4 (2000): 40-47.

Murphy, R. Taggart. (1996). “Making Sense of Japan: A Reassessment of Revisionism.” The National Interest.  Spring: 50-63.

Yamamura, Kozo. (1997). “The Japanese Political Economy After the Bubble.” Journal of Japanese Studies  Summer: 291-331.

 

US-Japan Relations

Note: Many readings in the economic and security policy categories address US-Japan relations, but are not listed here.

Akaha, Tsuneo.  “Beyond Self-defense: Japan’s Elusive Security Role Under the New Guidelines for US-Japan Defense

       Cooperation.”  The Pacific Review 11:4 (1998): 461-483.

Armacost, Michael H. (1996). Friends or Rivals? The Insider's Account of U.S.-Japan Relations. (New York: Columbia University Press).

Campbell, J. (1993). Japan and the United States: Games That Work.  Japan's Foreign Policy. Curtis, G.  New York, M.E. Sharpe.

Cummings. Bruce.  Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.  (Ch.2)

Curtis, Gerald., ed.  New Perspectives on U.S.-Japan Relations.  New York: Japan Center for International Exchange, 2000.

Davis, Christina. (1997) “Japan: Trade and Security Interdependence,” in Foreign Policy in Focus (Albuquerque, New Mexico: Interhemispheric Resource Center).

Destler, I. M. and M. Nacht (1990). “Beyond Mutual Recrimination: Building a Solid U.S.-Japan Relationship in the 1990s.” International Security 15(3): 92-119.

Green, Michael and Patrick Cronin., eds.  The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Past, Present, and Future.  New York: Council on

       Foreign Relations Press, 1999.

Inoguchi, T. (1995). Human Rights and Democracy in Pacific Asia: Contention and Collaboration between the U.S. and Japan. United States-Japan Relations and International Institutions After the Cold War. P. Gourevitch, and T. Inoguchi, et al. (La Jolla, CA: Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies University of California, San Diego).

Johnson, Chalmers.  Blowback: The Costs and Consquences of American Empire.  New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000. 

       Pp. 34-64.

Judis, John. (1994). “The Japanese Megaphone: Foreign Influences on Foreign Policymaking.” pp. 95-105 in Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy, edited by Eugene R. Wittkopf (New York: St. Martin's Press).

Katzenstein, Peter, and Yutaka Tsujinaka. (1995). “"Bullying," "Buying," and "Binding." U.S.-Japan Transnational and Domestic Structures.” pp. 79-111 in Bringing Transnational Relations Back In, edited by Thomas Risse-Kappen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Landon, Frank. (1985). Japan and North America.  Japan's Foreign Relations. R.S. Ozaki,   and W. Arnold. Boulder, CO, Westview Press.

Lincoln, Edward.  Troubled Times: U.S.-Japan Trade Relations in the 1990s.  Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution,

       1999.  (Ch. 3,4)

Murphy, R. Taggart. (1996). The Weight of the Yen: How Denial Imperils America's Future and Ruins an Alliance. (New York: W.W. Norton).

Sato, H. and I. M. Destler, Eds. (1996). Leadership Sharing in the New International System: Japan and the United States. Tsukuba, Special Research Project on the New International System, University of Tsukuba.

Stokes, B. (1996). “Divergent Paths: US-Japan Relations Towards the Twenty-first Century.” International Affairs 72(2): 281-291.

Vogel, Steven. (1997). The "Inverse" Relationship: the United States and Japan at the End of the Century. Eagle Adrift: American Foreign Policy at the End of the Century. R. J.

Vogel, Steven K.  U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World.  Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002.

 

Sino-Japanese Relations

Gallager, Michael. (1996). “China's Illusory Threat.” pp. 133-158 in East Asian Security: An International Security Reader, edited by Michael Brown et al.

Green, Michael, and Benjamin Self. (1996). “Japan's Changing China Policy.” Survival  Summer: 35-58.

Green, Michael.  Japan’s Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy Challenges in an Era of Uncertain Power.  New York: Palgrave,

       2001. (Ch. 3)

Harris, Stuart. (1997). “The China-Japan Relationship and Asia Pacific Regional Security.” The Journal of East Asian Affairs  vol.11, no.1: 121-148.

Howe, Christopher. (1996). “China and Japan.”  (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Johnson, Chalmers. (1986). “The Pattern of Japanese Relations with China, 1952-1982.” Pacific Affairs  vol.59, no.3: 402-428.

Johnstone, Christopher.  “Japan’s China Policy: Implications For U.S.-Japan Relations.”  Asian Survey 38:11 (November

       1998): 1067-1085. 

Manning, Robert A. (1994). “Burdens of the Past, Dilemmas of the Future: Sino-Japanese Relations in the Emerging International System.” Washington Quarterly  vol.17, no.1: 45-58.

Roy, Denny. (1996). “Hegemon on the Horizon? China's Threat to East Asian Security.” pp. 133-158 in East Asian Security: An International Security Reader, edited by Michael Brown et al.

Taylor, Robert. (1996). Greater China and Japan: Prospects for an Economic Partnership in East Asia. (London: Routledge).

 

Japan’s Relations with the Asia-Pacific Region

Akaha, Tsuneo. (1996). “Japanese-Russian Economic Relations and Their Implications for Asia-Pacific Security.” pp. 197-212 in Power and Prosperity: The Links between Economics and Security in Asia-Pacific, edited by Susan Shirk and Christopher Twomey (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers).

Altbach, Eric. (December 19, 1997). “The Asian Monetary Fund Proposal: A Case Study of Japanese Regional Leadership.” JEI Report. pp. 1-14.

Bridges, Brian. (1992). “Japan and Korea: Closer Neighbors?” Asian Affairs  vol.79, no.June: 153-160.

Calder, K. (1996). “Asia's Empty Tank.” Foreign Affairs 75(2): 55-69.

Cha, Victor. Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Kim, Samuel. The International Relations of Northeast Asia.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003.

Field, Norma. (1995). “The Stakes of Apology.” Japan Quarterly.  October-December: 405-418.

Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Miles Kahler. (1993). “Regionalism and Rivalry: Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia.”  (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

Funabashi, Yoichi. ( 1995). Asia-Pacific Fusion: Japan's Role in APEC. (Washington D.C.: Institute for International Economics). Pp.223-43.   

Grant, Richard. (1997). “The Process of Japanese Foreign Policy: Focus on Asia.”  (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs).

Green, Michael.  Japan’s Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy Challenges in an Era of Uncertain Power.  New York: Palgrave,

       2001. (Ch. 4, 6, 7)

Hatch, Walter, and Kozo Yamamura. (1996). “Asia in Japan's embrace : building a regional production alliance.”  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Hughes, Christopher. Japan’s Economic Power and Security: Japan and North Korea. Routledge, 1999.

Inoguchi, Takashi. (1992). “Japan's Foreign Policy in East Asia.” Current History 91(569): 407-412.

_____. (1997). “Missions, Mechanisms, and Modalities of Fledgling Cooperative regimes in the Pacific.” pp. 207-223 in The Vitality of Japan: Sources of National Strength and Weakness, edited by Armand Clesse (New York: St. Martin's Press).

Katzenstein, Peter, and Takashi Shiraishi. (1997). “Network Power: Japan and Asia.”  (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Katzenstein, Peter. (1996). “Regionalism in Comparative Perspective.” Conflict and Cooperation  vol.31, no.2: 123-159.

Kim, Hong-nak. “Japanese-Korean Relations in the 1980s.” Asian Survey 27 no. 2 (May 1987): 497-514.

MacIntyre, Andrew.  “Can Japan Ever Take Leadership?  The View From Indonesia.”  Asian Perspective 24.4 (2000): 299-      

       314.

Manning, Robert A., and Paula Stern. (1994). “The Myth of the Pacific Community.” Foreign Affairs November/December. pp 79-93.

Masumi, Fukatsu. (1995). “The Eclipse of Showa Taboos and the Apology Resolution.” Japan Quarterly.  October-December: 419-425.

Mendl, Wolf. (1995). Japan's Asia Policy: Regional Security and Global Interests. (New York: Routledge).

Miyashita, Akitoshi and Yoichiro Sato., eds.  Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Domestic Interests, American             

       Pressure, and Regional Integration.  New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Pempel, T. J. (1997). Transpacific Torii: Japan and the Emerging Asian Regionalism. Network Power: Japan and Asia. P. Katzenstein and T. Shiraishi. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.

Richard Doner. “Japan in East Asia: Institutions and Regional Leadership.” Pp.197-233 in Katzenstein and Shiraishi.

Seki, Hiromoto. (1996). “APEC: New paradigm for Asia-Pacific relations.” Asia-Pacific Review  vol.3, no.1: 131-136.

Shibusawa, Masahide. (1997). “Japan's Historical Legacies: Implications for its Relations with Asia.” pp. 25-36 in The Process of Japanese Foreign Policy, edited by Richard Grant (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs).

Sudo, S. (1988). “Japan-ASEAN Relations.” Asian Survey 28(5): 509-525.

Taplin, Ruth. (1997). “Japan's Foreign Policy Towards Southeast Asia.” pp. 72-106 in The Process of Japanese Foreign Policy, edited by Richard Grant (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs).

Taylor, Mark. (1995). “Dominance Through Technology: Is Japan Creating a Yen Bloc in Southeast Asia?” Foreign Affairs  vol.74, no.6: 14-20.

Tsuyoshi Kawasaki. (1997) “Between Realism and Idealism in Japanese Security Policy: the Case of the ASEAN Regional Forum.”  The Pacific Review. Pp.480-501.

The World Bank. (1993). The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Yamakage, Susumu. (1997). “Japan's National Security and Asia-Pacific's Regional Institutions in the Post-Cold War Era.” pp. 275-305 in Network Power: Japan and Asia, edited by Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

 

Russo-Japanese Relations

Akaha, Tsuneo. (1996). “Japanese-Russian Economic Relations and Their Implications for Asia-Pacific Security.” pp. 197-212 in Power and Prosperity: The Links between Economics and Security in Asia-Pacific, edited by Susan Shirk and Christopher Twomey (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers).

Falkenheim, Peggy Levine. (1993). “Moscow's Relations with Tokyo.” Asian Survey  vol.23, no.10: 953-967.

Green, Michael.  Japan’s Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy Challenges in an Era of Uncertain Power.  New York: Palgrave,

       2001. (Ch 5)

Hara, Kimie.  Japanese-Soviet/Russian Relations Since 1945: A Difficult Peace.  New York: Routledge, 1998.

____.  “50 Years From San Francisco : Re-examining the Peace Treaty and Japan’s Territorial Problems.”  Pacific      

       Affairs 74:3 (2001): 361-382.

Kimura, H. (1991). “Gorbachev's Japan Policy: the Northern Territories Issue.” Asian Survey 31(September): 798-815.

Zagorsky, Alexei. (1993). “Soviet-Japanese Relations Under Perestroika.” pp. 137-59 in Japan in the Posthegemonic World, edited by Tsuneo Akaha and Frank Langdon (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers).

Zagorsky, Alexei.  “Three Years on a Path to Nowhere.”  Pacific Affairs 74:1 (2001): 75-93.

 

European-Japanese Relations

De Bettignies, Henri-Claude. (1994). “Japan and E.C. '92.” pp. 79-100 in Japan: A New Kind of Superpower?, edited by Craig Garby and Mary Brown (Princeton: Woodrow Wilson Center Press).

Gilson, Julie.  Japan and the European Union: A Partnership for the Twenty-First Century?  New York: St. Martin’s Press,

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Leitch, Richard, Akira Kato, and Martin Weinstein. (1995). “Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Japan.” pp. 111-124 in  Japan's Role in the Post-Cold War World. (Westport: Greenwood Press).

Loukas, T. and M. White, Eds. (1982). Japan and Western Europe. New York, St. Martin's Press.

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Scharrer, Hans-Eckart. (1994). “Economic and monetary policy cooperation : the EC and Japan.”  (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft).

 

Middle East-Japan

Rynhold, Jonathan.  “Japan’s Cautious New Activism in the Middle East: A Qualitative Change or More of the Same?” 

       International Relations of the Asia-Pacific vol2 (2002): 245-263.

 

Japan’s World Role

Akaha, Tsuneo, and Frank Langdon. (1993). “Japan in the Posthegemonic World.”  (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers).

Curtis, Gerald. (1993). “Japan's foreign policy after the Cold War.”  (New York: M.E. Sharpe).

Drifte, Reinhard.  Japan’s Foreign Policy for the 21^st Century: From Economic Superpower to What Power?.  London:

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Drifte, Reinhard.  Japan’s Quest for a Permanent Security Council Seat: A Matter of Pride or Justice.  New York: St.

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Garby, Craig C., and Mary Brown Bullock. (1994). “Japan: A New Kind of Superpower?”  (Princeton: Woodrow Wilson Center Press).

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Hashimoto, Ryutaro. (1994). Vision of Japan : a realistic direction for the 21st century. (Tokyo: Bestsellers Co.).

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Inoguchi, T. (1988/89). “Four Japanese Scenarios for the Future.” International Affairs 65(1): 15-28.

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Leitch, R., A. Kato, M. Weinstein. (1995). Japan's Role in the Post-Cold War World. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press.

Lincoln, Edward. (1993). Japan's New Global Role. (Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution).

Pyle, Kenneth B. (1996). The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era. (Washington, D.C.: The AEI Press).

Saito, S. (1990). Japan at the Summit: Its Role in the Western Alliance and Asian Pacific Co-operation. London, Routledge.

Tamamoto, Masaru. (1990). “Japan's Search for a World Role.” World Policy Journal  vol.7, no.3: 493-520.

Terry, Edith.  “The World Bank and Japan.”  Asian Perspective 24: 4 (2000): 273-298.

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Wolferen, Karel. Van. (1986/87). “The Japan Problem.” Foreign Affairs 64(Winter): 288-303.

 

Development Assistance

Arase, David. (1995). Buying Power: The Political Economy of Japan's Foreign Aid. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers).

_____. (1997). “Japan's Contributions to International Society: the Limits Imposed by Domestic Structures.” pp. 151-179 in The Vitality of Japan: Sources of National Strength and Weakness, edited by Armand Clesse (New York: St. Martin's Press).

Bobrow, Davis, and Mark Boyer. (1996). “Bilateral and Multilateral Foreign Aid: Japan's Approach in Comparative Perspective.” Review of International Political Economy  vol.3: 94-121.

Brooks, W. and R. Orr (1985). “Japan's Foreign Economic Assistance.” Asian Survey 25(March): 322-340.

Fujisaki, Tomoko. (1996). “Japan as Top Donor: The Challenge of Implementing Software Aid Policy.” Pacific Affairs  vol.69, 4: 519-539.

Hirata, Keiko.  “New Challenges to Japan’s Aid: An Analysis of Aid Policy-Making.”  Pacific Affairs 23:2 (1998): 311-

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Islam, Shafiqul. (1993). “Foreign Aid and Burdensharing: Is Japan Free Riding to a Coprosperity Sphere in Pacific Asia?” pp. 321-390 in Regionalism and Rivalry: Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia, edited by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Miles Kahler (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).  Comments by Krasner and Inoguchi.

Miyashita, Akitoshi and Yoichiro Sato., eds.  Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Domestic Interests, American   

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Orr, Robert. (1989/90). “Collaboration or Conflict? Foreign Aid and U.S.-Japan Relations.” Pacific Affairs 62(Winter): 476-489.

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Pharr, Susan. (1994). “Japanese Aid in the the New World Order.” pp. 159-180 in Japan: A New Kind of Superpower?, edited by Craig Garby and Mary Brown (Princeton: Woodrow Wilson Center Press).

Rix, A. (1989/90). “Japan's Foreign Aid Policy: A Capacity for Leadership?” Pacific Affairs 62(Winter): 461-475.

Saori, Katada.  “Japan’s Two-Track Aid Approach.”  Asian Survey 42:2 (March/April 2002): 320-42.

Yasutomo, Dennis. (1986). The Manner of Giving: Strategic Aid and Japanese Foreign Policy. Lexington, MA, Lexington Books.

_____. (1995). The New Multilateralism in Japan's Foreign Policy. (New York: St. Martin's Press).

 

 

Global Cooperation for the Environment

Akaha, Tsuneo.  “Restructuring Environmental Policy in Japan: The 1990s and Beyond.”  The Journal of East Asian Studies

        l:4 (2001): 121-159.

Fermann, Gunnar. (1992). Japan in the Greenhouse: Responsibilities, Policies and Prospects for Combating Global Warming. (Lysaker, Norway: The Fridtjof Nansen Institute).

Maull, Hanns W. (1991). “Japan's Global Environmental Policies.” The Pacific Review  vol.4, no.3: 254-262.

Pharr, Susan, and Ming Wan. (1996). “Japan's Leadership: Shaping a New Asia.” pp. 133-171 in Leadership Sharing in the New International System: Japan and the United States, edited by Hideo Sato and I.M. Destler (Tsukuba, Japan: University of Tsukuba).

_____. (1998). “Yen for the Earth: Japan's Pro-active China Environmental Policy.” in Energizing China, edited by McElroy, Nielson, and Lydon ).

Schreurs, Miranda.  Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States.  Cambridge: Cambridge University  

       Press, 2002.

 

Diplomacy in the United Nations

Drifte, Reinhard.  Japan’s Quest for a Permanent Security Council Seat: A Matter of Pride or Justice.  New York: St.

       Martin’s Press, INC, 2000.

Hiroshi, Fujita. (1995). “UN Reform and Japan's Permanent Security Council Seat.” Japan Quarterly  , no.October-December: 436-442.

Immerman, Robert. (1994). “Japan in the United Nations.” pp. 181-192 in Japan: A New Kind of Superpower?, edited by Craig Garby and Mary Brown (Princeton: Woodrow Wilson Center Press).

Itoh, Mayumi. (1995). “Expanding Japan's Role in the United Nations.” The Pacific Review  vol.8, no.2: 283-302.

Mulgan, Aurelia George. (1995). “International Peacekeeping and Japan's Role.” Asian Survey  vol.35, no.12: 1102-1117.

Ogata, S. (1985). The Changing Role of Japan in the United Nations. Japan's New World Role. J. Katz and T. Friedman-Lichtscheing. Boulder, CO, Westview Press.

Saito, S. (1987). “The Evolution of Japan's United Nations Policy.” Japan Review of International Affairs(Fall/Winter): 186-206.

Shibata, Akiho. (1994). “Japanese Peacekeeping Legislation and Recent Developments in U.N. Operations.” Yale International Law Journal  vol.19, no.2: 307-348.

Tanaka, A.(1995). UN Peace Operations and Japan-US Relations. United States-Japan Relations and International Institutions After the Cold War. P. Gourevitch, and T. Inoguchi, et al.  La Jolla, CA, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies University of California, San Diego.

Ueki, Yasuhiro. (1993). “Japan's UN Diplomacy: Sources of Passivism and Activism.” pp. 347-370 in Japan's Foreign Policy After the Cold War, edited by Gerald Curtis (New York: M.E. Sharpe).

 

Nuclear Policy and Arms Control

Calder, Kent. (1996). “Asia's Empty Tank.” Foreign Affairs  vol.75, no.2: 55-69.

DiFilippo, Anthony.  “Can Japan Craft an International Nuclear Disarmament Policy?” paper presented at the International

        Studies Association on February 1999 www.ciaonet.org/conf/dia02

Drifte, Reinhard. (1989). “Japan and Nuclear Proliferation in East Asia.” Japan Forum  vol.1, no.1: 43-55.

Harrison, Selig S. (1996). “Japan's Nuclear Future.”  (Washington D.C.:  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace). Pp.1-86.

Purrington, C. (1995). U.S.-Japan Relations and International Arms Control After the Cold War. United States-Japan Relations and International Institutions After the Cold War. P. Gourevitch, and T. Inoguchi, et al. La Jolla, CA, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies University of California, San Diego.

Spector, Leonard. (1994). “Nuclear nonproliferation : the contributions of Germany and Japan.”  Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University) 30 pages.

 

Internationalization and Japanese society

Itoh, Mayumi. (1996). “Japan's Abiding Sakoku Mentality.” Orbis  Spring: 235-245.

Owada, Sadako. (1992). “Interdependence and Internationalization.” pp. 63-71 in The Internationalization of Japan, edited by Glenn Hook and Michael Weiner (London: Routledge).

Sellek, Yoko, and Michael Weiner. (1992). “Migrant Workers: The Japanese Case in International Perspective.” pp. 205-228 in The Internationalization of Japan, edited by Glenn D. Hook and Michael Weiner (London: Routledge).

 

Japan/IR Reader

Note: Covers wide range of topics.

Hook, Glenn, Julie Gilson, Christopher Hughes, and Hugo Dobson.  Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security.  New York: Routledge, 2001.

Takashi, Inoguchi and Purnendra Jain., eds.  Japanese Foreign Policy Today: A Reader.  New York: Palgrave, 2000.