Japan's Historical Disputes with Neighboring States
Russian Perspectives
- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book examines Japan's relationships with China, Russia, the states of the Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan. Analyzing key points of conflict, their roots, and current relations, it highlights their significance for each country. Avoiding a focus on sensitive issues of the historical past per se, it provides a Russian perspective on their impact in Japan and neighboring states, their place in the domestic political discourse, the image of modern Japan in the eyes of political elites and the public and assesses the prospects for improving unfavorable mutual perceptions.
Problems of the historical past remain a significant factor in the deterioration of Japan's relations with China, South Korea, and Russia. Notions of national prestige and historical disputes appear with increasing frequency on the international political agenda in East Asia, driven largely by the economic and military rise of China and the changing military-political balance of power in the region.
The book will be of interest to scholars and students of area studies and international relations, especially those specializing in East Asian Studies, Japanese studies, the politics of memory in IR, and problems of national identity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Unresolved Issues of History in Japan’s Relations With Its Neighbours: Mutual Perceptions and Attitudes
- 1 Identity and Historical Memory
- 2 Historical Memory in the Foreign Policy Discourse of Contemporary Japan
- 3 Issues of the Historical Past on the Agenda of Modern Japan–China Relations
- 4 The Japanese Colonial Heritage in Taiwan as a Problem of the Historical Past
- 5 Issues of the Historical Past in Current Relations Between Japan and the Countries of the Korean Peninsula
- 6 “Apology Diplomacy” in Japan’s Relations With East Asian Countries
- 7 Mutual Images and Thorny Issues of Historical Past in the Socio-Political Discourse of Russia and Japan
- 8 The Japanese Presence on Sakhalin (1905–1945) as an Issue of Historical Memory
- 9 Japanese Prisoners of War in the USSR, the Legal, Social and Humanitarian Aspects of “Siberian Captivity”
- Index