Introduction Part I: The China Problem in Postwar Japan 1945-1970 Chapter 1: The China Problem in Postwar Japanese Foreign Policy Chapter 2: The China Problem and Postwar Japanese National Identity Part II: The Nixon Shock and the Normalization of Relations 1971-1972 Chapter 3: The Politics of the Nixon Shock and the Normalization of Relations Chapter 4: The China Problem in a New Era Part III: The Anti-Hegemony Issue 1973-1976 Chapter 5: The Anti-Hegemony Issue: Japan and the Sino-Soviet Cold War Chapter 6: The China Problem in a Time of Crisis and Adaptation Part IV: From the Peace Treaty to Economic Cooperation 1977-1979 Chapter 7: The Diplomacy of Peace and Cooperation Chapter 8: Conservative Triumphalism and the China Problem Epilogue: Toward the "History Problem" Conclusion Bibliography Index

The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations

A territorial dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands has gained a high profile in Sino–Japanese relations. Since the 2012 escalation of the territorial dispute, there is no sign of any de-escalation despite economic interdependence, which previously helped ease the tension. Drawing on the constructivist understanding of threat perception and power transition theory, this article analyzes the way in which the deepening of threat perceptions associated with a perceived regional power transition prevents Japan and China from working beyond their subjective conceptions of justice associated with boarders and history. Since 2012, the Sino–Japanese territorial dispute has increasingly fitted into a larger picture of power-political conflict taking place in a power transition in which both Japan and China aim to return to ‘normality’ by propagating their territorial claims, strengthening their military capabilities, and strategic realignment. To that end, this article first introduces a theoretical fram...

The Sino–Japanese territorial dispute and threat perception in power transition

This article explores Sino-Japanese relations by looking at how negative sentiments towards Japan among the Chinese population are deployed as a form of political capital in struggles among the Chinese Communist Party elite. It gains insights into this process by looking at how such sentiments have been deployed to challenge the legitimacy of three CCP leaders since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, resulting in the downfall of two. The conclusions from these case studies are then used to understand how the current Chinese leadership has engineered the ‘new starting point’ in the relationship with Japan in the context of the movement from a ‘winner takes all’ type of factional politics into one characterized by ‘power balancing’ among the elite.

http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/19809/1/Japan_in_the_politics_of_Chinese_leadership_legitimacy_(LSERO_version).pdf

Japan in the politics of Chinese leadership legitimacy: recent developments in historical perspective

................................................................................................................. III ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................................. V CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................1 1. OBJECTIVE AND PREVIEW OF SHADOWING/AVOIDING THEORY ........................9 2. STRUCTURE OF THE DISSERTATION ....................................................................12 3. CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE STUDY .........................................................................13 CHAPTER 2: EXPLAINING VARIATION IN THE MILITARY TRAJECTORIES OF RISING POWERS ........................................................................................................19 1. MOTIVATING PUZZLES........................................................................................19 2. TOWARD AN EXPLANATION OF VARIATION IN MILITARY TRAJECTORIES OF RISING POWERS ......................................................................................................................31 3. ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS TO SHADOWING/AVOIDING THEORY ...............64 4. OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH DESIGN .....................................................................74 5. CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................87 CHAPTER 3: MEIJI JAPAN ......................................................................................89 CHAPTER 4: LATE 20 TH -CENTURY JAPAN .......................................................177 CHAPTER 5: CONTEMPORARY CHINA ............................................................285

Shadowing the Hegemon? Great Power Norms, Socialization, and the Military Trajectories of Rising Powers

This article highlights the parallels between Japan’s leveraging of foreign aid to secure access to strategic natural resources in the post-World War II period, and China’s similar use of foreign aid since the early 1990s. It then shows how both countries have applied similar strategies in their aid programs in Myanmar, and points out how dramatic shifts in Myanmar’s domestic politics have shaped their opportunities for economic engagement. China seized upon Myanmar’s political transition in 1988 to expand its aid program, while Japan has responded to Myanmar’s reform measures since 2010 by resuming its aid efforts. The article concludes by considering the potential for China–Japan cooperation through their aid programs in Myanmar.

China and Japan in Myanmar: Aid, Natural Resources and Influence

Japanese – Chinese territorial disputes in the East China Sea – between military confrontation and economic cooperation

Sino-Japanese relations: Interaction, logic, and transformation

The territorial dispute between Japan and China over the sovereignty of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands is framed by economic interests, domestic circumstances, national identity issues, requirements of international law and historical grievances. The article provides an analysis of these issues which are indicative of the bilateral relationship in general. The analysis of the 1972-2010 period traces the reasons for the erosion of the implicit agreement in 1972 and 1978 between the two countries to shelve the territorial dispute, using Constructivist as well as Realist approaches. The second part contains a case study of the 2010 and the 2012/13 Senkaku incidents, the latter and most serious one started by Ishihara Shintaro, the right-wing Governor of Tokyo, when he declared in April 2012 his intention to have his local government buy some of the contested islands from its private owner which prompted the national government of Prime Minister Noda to buy them instead. The ensuing Chinese reaction has led to a crisis in the bilateral relationship which has political, military and economic implications of considerable importance for the future of Japan and China but also for the stability of the whole East Asian region.

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/UNIS/article/download/44789/42208

The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Territorial Dispute between Japan and China: Between the Materialization of the `China Threat` and Japan `Reversing the Outcome of World War II`?

Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs

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Reinhard Drifte

Papers

Japanese – Chinese territorial disputes in the East China Sea – between military confrontation and economic cooperation

Sino-Japanese relations: Interaction, logic, and transformation

The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Territorial Dispute between Japan and China: Between the Materialization of the `China Threat` and Japan `Reversing the Outcome of World War II`?

Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs

The end of Japan's Yen loan programme to China in 2008 and its repercussions