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10. Japan: Working to Shape the Regional Order

Author : T. J. Pempel

Published in: Japan and Asia’s Contested Order

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

This chapter analyzes Japan’s ongoing efforts to shape the regional order in the Asia-Pacific as competition accelerates between the regionally integrative forces of economics and the fragmenting forces of hard security. The election of Donald Trump has increased regional as well as Japanese uncertainties. In response, Prime Minister Abe has sought to develop a closer personal relationship with Trump to ensure America’s security commitment while advancing a revised Trans-Pacific Partnership, absent the US, as a way to stabilize the liberal regional trade order.

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3
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4
Prime Minister Koizumi took a number of steps to boostJapan’s military posture. He raised the status of the Defense Agency, provided Japanese military forces for US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, enrolled Japan as the first foreign participant in America’s missile defense system, and enhanced interoperability of Japanese and US equipment. Also changed was a new military outline in 2004 that broke precedent by explicitly identifying China and the DPRK as potential security concerns to Japan. See: Christopher W. Hughes, “Japanese military modernization: in search of a “normal” security role.” Population (m) 127 (2005): 127–3. T. J. Pempel, “Japan: divided government, diminished resources.” Strategic Asia 9 (2008): 106–33, Richard J. Samuels, Securing Japan: Tokyo’s grand strategy and the future of East Asia. Cornell University Press, 2008.
 
5
Martin Fackler, “In Japan, U.S. losing Diplomatic Ground to China,” at http://​www.​nytimes.​com/​2010/​01/​24/​world/​asia/​24japan.​html
 
6
See Yoshida Soeya, “An East Asia Community and Japan-China Relations,” East Asia Forum, 17 May 2010 at http://​www.​eastasiaforum.​org/​2010/​05/​17/​an-east-asian-community-and-japan-china-relations; also Aurelia George Mulgan, “Hatoyama’s East Asia Community and Regional Leadership Rivalries,” East Asia Forum, 13 October, 2009, at http://​www.​eastasiaforum.​org/​2009/​10/​13/​hatoyamas-east-asia-community
 
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10
G. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Order and Power in International Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
 
11
Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions. Ithaca, Cornel University Press, 2005.
 
12
For details see T.J. Pempel, “Trans-Pacific Torii: Japan and the Emerging Asian Regionalism,” in Peter J. Katzenstein, and Takashi Shiraishi, eds. Network Power: Japan in Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997): pp. 47–82.
 
13
William H. Overholt, Asia, America, and the transformation of Geopolitics. Cambridge University Press, 2007. pp. 18–19.
 
14
Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982. T.J. Pempel. “The developmental regime in a changing world economy.” Meredith Woo-Cumings (ed.) The developmental state, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1999: 137–81.
 
17
Kurlantzick, Joshua. Charm offensive: How China’s soft power is transforming the world. Yale University Press, 2007.
 
19
T.J. Pempel, “Regional Ups, Regional Downs,” in T.J. Pempel (ed.) The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis. (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1999). p. 67.
 
20
T.J. Pempel, “Japan: Dealing with Global Forces: Multilateralism, Regionalism, Bilateralism,” in Dag Harald Claes and Carl Henrik Knutsen (eds.) Governing the Global Economy: Politics, Institutions and Economic Development (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), p. 213–14. See also Kuniko P. Ashizawa, “Japan, the United States and Multilateral Institution Building in the Asia-Pacific,” In Ellis J. Krauss and T.J. Pempel (eds.) Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004): 248–271.
 
21
For example, G. John Ikenberry, “America in East Asia: Power, Markets, and Grand Strategy,” and Mike M. Mochizuki, “Terms of Engagement: The U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Rise of China,” both in Ellis S. Krauss and T.J. Pempel (eds.) Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004, pp. 37–54 and 87–114.
 
22
Ellis J. Krauss, “The United States and Japan in APEC’s EVSL Negotiations: Regional Multilateralism,” in Krauss and Pempel (eds.) Beyond bilateralism: 272–295.
 
23
Saadia Pekkanen (ed.) Asian Designs: Governance in the Global World Order. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016); David C. Kang, Arms Races, Costly Signals and American Grand Strategy to East Asia. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018 forthcoming).
 
24
Takashi Inoguchi, S. Okada, A. Tanaka, T. Dadaev. (2006). Human Beliefs and Values in Striding Asia. Tokyo Akashi Shoten, pp. 482–485.
 
25
Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic Blue Book, 2016. Tokyo, MOFA, 2016, p. 76; 152–53. Available at http://​www.​mofa.​go.​jp/​fp/​pp/​page24e_​000157.​html
 
26
Ibid, p. 85.
 
29
I do not wish to discuss here the apparent institutional contestation between the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). As of this writing, even though Japan and the US have not joined AIIB it is clear that the ADB and AIIB are joining forces in a number of projects and that early US opposition to AIIB has begun to wane.
 
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Ikenberry, G. John. “America in East Asia: Power, markets, and grand strategy,” in Ellis S. Krauss and T.J. Pempel (eds.) Beyond bilateralism: U.S.-Japan relations in the New Asia-Pacific. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004: 37–54.
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Inoguchi, Takashi, S. Okada, A. Tanaka, T. Dadaev. Human beliefs and values in striding Asia. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2006.
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Kurlantzick, Joshua. Charm offensive: How China’s soft power is transforming the world. Yale University Press, 2007.
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Pekkanen, Saadia (ed.) Asian designs: Governance in the global world order. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.
Pempel, T.J. “The developmental regime in a changing world economy,” in Meredith Woo-Cumings (ed.) The developmental state. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999a: 137–181.
Pempel, T.J. “Trans-Pacific Torii: Japan and the emerging Asian regionalism,” in Peter J. Katzenstein, and Takashi Shiraishi (eds.) Network power: Japan in Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997: 47–62.
Pempel, T.J. “Regional ups, regional downs,” in T.J. Pempel (ed.) The politics of the Asian economic crisis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999b: 62–78.
Pempel, T. J. “Japan: Divided government, diminished resources.” Strategic Asia 9 (2008): 106–33.
Pempel, T.J. “Japan: Dealing with global forces: Multilateralism, regionalism, bilateralism,” in Dag Harald Claes and Carl Henrik Knutsen (eds.) Governing the global economy: Politics, institutions and economic development. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
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Samuels, Richard J. Securing Japan: Tokyo’s grand strategy and the future of East Asia. Cornell University Press, 2008.
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Metadata
Title
Japan: Working to Shape the Regional Order
Author
T. J. Pempel
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Book
Japan and Asia’s Contested Order

Print ISBN: 978-981-13-0255-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-13-0256-5

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0256-5_10

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