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Based on extensive original research including interviews with key
participants, this book examines how, following Richard Nixon’s
famous visit to China in 1972, Japan established formal diplomatic
relations with China, doing so before the United States and other
Western countries. It considers the key personalities – Prime
Minister Tanaka and Foreign Minister Ōhira on the Japanese side,
and Zhou Enlai on the Chinese side, outlines how the discussions
unfolded, and discusses the key issues which divided the two sides
and how these issues were resolved: Japanese war reparations to
China, how the two countries perceived their past, how Taiwan
should be treated, and possession of the Senkaku Islands. The book
also shows how Tanaka and Ōhira sought to reconcile China–Japan
relations with the US–Japan Security Treaty and to continue
non-governmental exchanges with Taiwan following the severing of
relations. Overall, the book emphasises that the nature of the
relationship established in 1972 continues to be very important for
understanding present day China–Japan relations.
This book is a biography of Eisaku Sato (1901-75), who served as
prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister
Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The
book focuses on Sato's management of Japan's relations with the
United States and Japan's neighbours in East Asia, where Sato
worked to normalize relations with South Korea and China. It also
covers domestic Japanese politics, particularly factional politics
within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), where Sato, as
the founder of what would become the largest LDP faction, was at
the centre of LDP politics for decades. The book highlights Sato's
greatest achievement - the return of Okinawa from United States
occupation - for which, together with the establishment of the
non-nuclear principles, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the
only Japanese to receive the Prize.
Yasuhiro Nakasone, who served as prime minister for more than five
years in the 1980s, was one of Japan's leading postwar politicians.
This book is a biography of him but, by interweaving in
international politics and media appraisals of him, it also serves
as an examination of Japan's postwar politics. Nakasone was an
innovative conservative who actively criticized the conservative
mainstream, and this book reveals from both domestic and foreign
policy perspectives how the Liberal Democratic Party governed. The
Nakasone government served as not only the final phase of the Cold
War era of LDP factional politics but also as the starting point
for the general mainstream faction system that followed. With the
lengthy passage of time since the end of the Cold War and the
collapse of Japan's 1955 party system, there is a need to reassess
Nakasone, showing that there was much more to him than the popular
picture of him as a far-right hawk who loudly advocated for Japan
to engage in autonomous self-defense and as an opportunist leader
of a small faction, and to place the era in which Nakasone lived
its proper historical context.
This book is a biography of Eisaku Sato (1901-75), who served as
prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister
Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The
book focuses on Sato's management of Japan's relations with the
United States and Japan's neighbours in East Asia, where Sato
worked to normalize relations with South Korea and China. It also
covers domestic Japanese politics, particularly factional politics
within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), where Sato, as
the founder of what would become the largest LDP faction, was at
the centre of LDP politics for decades. The book highlights Sato's
greatest achievement - the return of Okinawa from United States
occupation - for which, together with the establishment of the
non-nuclear principles, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the
only Japanese to receive the Prize.
Based on extensive original research including interviews with key
participants, this book examines how, following Richard Nixon's
famous visit to China in 1972, Japan established formal diplomatic
relations with China, doing so before the United States and other
Western countries. It considers the key personalities - Prime
Minister Tanaka and Foreign Minister Ohira on the Japanese side,
and Zhou Enlai on the Chinese side, outlines how the discussions
unfolded, and discusses the key issues which divided the two sides
and how these issues were resolved: Japanese war reparations to
China, how the two countries perceived their past, how Taiwan
should be treated, and possession of the Senkaku Islands. The book
also shows how Tanaka and Ohira sought to reconcile China-Japan
relations with the US-Japan Security Treaty and to continue
non-governmental exchanges with Taiwan following the severing of
relations. Overall, the book emphasises that the nature of the
relationship established in 1972 continues to be very important for
understanding present day China-Japan relations.
This book analyzes Ohira's ideology, philosophy, and actions as a
politician and a minister, based on primary sources from Japan and
the USA, and makes a significant contribution to the field of
Japanese political and diplomatic history. This book is the first
critical biography to chart Masayoshi Ohira’s life and work, with
a focus on his political philosophy, and how he sought to create a
new order in the Asia-Pacific region, framing a plan for solidarity
across the Pacific Rim. If a statesman is a politician who has made
diplomacy their life's work, then Ohira can be regarded as the
first Japanese statesman of the modern era. While this ambition
remained unfulfilled, Ohira's involvement in foreign policy was
long and intensive—and highly influential—on the region. One of
only two postwar prime ministers to have served as foreign minister
for two terms, he attempted to balance the pursuit of a new order
in the Pacific Rim with Asian diplomacy and focused on cooperation
with the USA without becoming overly reliant on it. With the new
availability of original documents decades after his death, this
book has become possible, enabling the author to systematically
follow and record Ohira's diplomatic vision. Combining history,
political philosophy, political science, and international
relations, this book is of appeal to history scholars and students
of Japan, as well as of the foreign relations of countries such as
the USA, China, and Korea.
This book analyzes Ohira's ideology, philosophy, and actions as a
politician and a minister, based on primary sources from Japan and
the USA, and makes a significant contribution to the field of
Japanese political and diplomatic history. This book is the first
critical biography to chart Masayoshi Ohira's life and work, with a
focus on his political philosophy, and how he sought to create a
new order in the Asia-Pacific region, framing a plan for solidarity
across the Pacific Rim. If a statesman is a politician who has made
diplomacy their life's work, then Ohira can be regarded as the
first Japanese statesman of the modern era. While this ambition
remained unfulfilled, Ohira's involvement in foreign policy was
long and intensive-and highly influential-on the region. One of
only two postwar prime ministers to have served as foreign minister
for two terms, he attempted to balance the pursuit of a new order
in the Pacific Rim with Asian diplomacy and focused on cooperation
with the USA without becoming overly reliant on it. With the new
availability of original documents decades after his death, this
book has become possible, enabling the author to systematically
follow and record Ohira's diplomatic vision. Combining history,
political philosophy, political science, and international
relations, this book is of appeal to history scholars and students
of Japan, as well as of the foreign relations of countries such as
the USA, China, and Korea.
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