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GO256: Conflict in East Asia

GO256: Conflict in East Asia . Professor Walter Hatch Colby College Lecture 16. Foreign Policy of Japan. The Post-WWII Settlement. Article Nine of Constitution (1947).

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GO256: Conflict in East Asia

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  1. GO256: Conflict in East Asia Professor Walter Hatch Colby College Lecture 16

  2. Foreign Policy of Japan

  3. The Post-WWII Settlement

  4. Article Nine of Constitution (1947) • Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. • In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.

  5. US-Japan Security Treaty (1951) • US vowed to defend Japan against enemy attack • Japan agreed to let US station military troops on Japanese soil

  6. Economic Superpowerand Political Weakling How to explain the persistence of the post-WWII settlement?

  7. Explanation I:The Yoshida Doctrine

  8. Living the Yoshida Doctrine • “Omni-directional Foreign Policy” • “Separating Economics and Politics”

  9. Explanation II:Japanese Pacifism

  10. Bowing to Pacifism • The Three Non-Nuke Principles (1968) • No production • No possession • No introduction • Limiting Defense Expenditures (1976) • 1% of GDP • Comprehensive Security (1980) • Yen loans and tech assistance to Asia

  11. Exceptions: LDP Hawks Kishi Nobusuke Nakasone Yasuhiro

  12. Growing Military Expenditures

  13. Big Defense

  14. The First Persian Gulf War

  15. PKO Law (1992)

  16. Post-Cold War: New Directions? • Embracing Asia • Giving yen • Going multilateral • Seeking a seat • Consolidating the bases? • Revising the constitution? • Getting stronger? • Going nuclear?

  17. Embracing Asia flying geese model

  18. Giving Yen (I) • Began as war reparations • Yen loans for resource development and infrastructure • Tied to use of Japanese contractors

  19. Giving Yen (II)

  20. Going multilateral

  21. Seeking a Seat UN Security Council

  22. Consolidating the Bases?

  23. Revising the Constitution?

  24. Going nuclear?

  25. Rough Relations • North Korea • South Korea • China

  26. North Korea Taepodong Missile Launch

  27. North Korea (continued) Yokota Megumi

  28. South Korea Dokdo or Takeshima

  29. South Korea (continued)

  30. China • Senkaku/Diaoyutai Islands • Military • China’s defense spending • China’s nuclear testing (1995) • Japan-US defense guidelines (1997) • Japan’s support for theater missile defense • Immigration • “Criminal DNA?”

  31. The Burden of History Yasukuni Shrine

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