Gulliver in Lilliput: Japan and Asian economic regionalism

World Policy Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 13-26

  Pempel, T J ^a  

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References (36)

1. "A Survey of Asia," The Economist, October 30, 1993, p. 3.
2. Steven Schlossstein, Asia's New Little Dragons: The Dynamic Emergence of Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1991), pp. 281-87.
3. Thomas Kerschner, Japanese Foreign Trade (Lexington, Ma.: D. C. Heath, 1975), p. 22.
4. Keizai Koho Center, Japan 1987: An International Comparison (Tokyo: Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs, 1987), pp. 54, 56.
5. Ken Courtis's figures in James Fallows, Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System (New York: Pantheon, 1994), p. 264.
6. "Japanese Manufacturing: Asian Promise," The Economist, June 12, 1993, pp. 74-77.
7. In contrast, Japanese foreign direct investment in the United States and Europe has fallen from 46 percent to 40.5 percent, and from 25 percent to 21 percent, respectively, over the same period (Isao Kubota, "Economic Integration Is Increasing in Asia," Japan Times, June 20, 1994).
8. Richard P. Cronin, "Japan's Expanding Role and Influence in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for U.S. Interests and Policy" (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1990), p. CRS-2, as cited in Fallows, Looking at the Sun, p. 485.
9. Richard P. Cronin, "Japan's Expanding Role and Influence in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for U.S. Interests and Policy" (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1990), p. CRS-2, as cited in Fallows, Looking at the Sun, p. 485.
10. Mitchell Bernard and John Ravenhill, "Beyond Flying Geese and Product Cycles: Regionalization, Hierarchy, and the Industrialization of East Asia," World Politics 47 (January 1995), p. 182.
11. "Survey of Asia," The Economist, p. 11.
12. These figures are dollar-based and appear in Tsusho Hakusho, 1994 (White paper on trade, 1994), vol. 2 (Tokyo: Tsusho Sangyosho, 1994) pp. 6-7.
13. Ibid., vol. 1, p. 176.
14. These figures are based on data from Nihon Kokusei Zue: 1996/97, p. 357; Suji de miru Nihon no Hyakunen (100 years of Japanese statistics) [Tokyo: Nihon Kokuseisha, 1993], pp. 323-24; and Nihon Tokei Geppo (Japanese statistical monthly), December 1994, pp. 78-82.
15. These figures are based on data from Nihon Kokusei Zue: 1996/97, p. 357; Suji de miru Nihon no Hyakunen (100 years of Japanese statistics) [Tokyo: Nihon Kokuseisha, 1993], pp. 323-24; and Nihon Tokei Geppo (Japanese statistical monthly), December 1994, pp. 78-82.
16. These figures are based on data from Nihon Kokusei Zue: 1996/97, p. 357; Suji de miru Nihon no Hyakunen (100 years of Japanese statistics) [Tokyo: Nihon Kokuseisha, 1993], pp. 323-24; and Nihon Tokei Geppo (Japanese statistical monthly), December 1994, pp. 78-82.
17. Nihon Kokusei Zue: 1993, pp. 405-6.
18. James W. Morley, "Japan and the Asia Pacific: Defining a New Role," Asian Update, May 1993, p. 5.
19. "Japan Ties Up the Asian Market," The Economist, April 24, 1992, pp. 33-34.
20. Nihon Kokusei Zue: 1996/97, pp. 387-88.
21. Nihon Kokusei Zue: 1993, pp. 404-407; Tsusho Hakusho, 1994, vol. 2, passim.
22. Nihon Kokusei Zue: 1993, pp. 404-407; Tsusho Hakusho, 1994, vol. 2, passim.
23. Robert M. Orr, "The Rising Sum - What Makes Japan Give?" The International Economy (September-October 1989), p. 83.
24. Shafiqul Islam, "Foreign Aid and Burden Sharing: Is Japan Free Riding to a Co-Prosperity Sphere in Pacific Asia?" in Regionalism and Rivalry: Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia, ed. Jeffrey A. Frankel and Miles Kahler (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), pp. 338-39.
25. "Fortune's Global 500," Fortune, August 7, 1995, pp. 137-40.
26. As quoted in Sam Jameson, "Peace Brings Prosperity to Asia," Japan Times, July 16, 1992.
27. Leon Hollerman, "The Headquarters Nation," The National Interest 25 (fall 1991), p. 16.
28. Japan Times, February 9, 1991, p. 3; and Jetro, Nippon 1996 (Tokyo: Jetro, 1996), p. 155.
29. Japan Times, February 9, 1991, p. 3; and Jetro, Nippon 1996 (Tokyo: Jetro, 1996), p. 155.
30. Mark Borthwick, Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia (Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1992), p. 530.
31. Kent Calder, Japan's Changing Role in Asia: Emerging Co-Prosperity (New York: Japan Society, 1991), p. 9.
32. For the first half of 1994, Japan ran its largest Asian surpluses with Hong Kong ($21 billion), Singapore ($13 billion), and Taiwan ($13 billion). Its overall surplus with all Asian countries was $31 billion, exceeding its surplus with the United States of $27 billion (Nikkei Weekly, Japan Economic Almanac, 1995 [Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1995], p. 30).
33. Marcus Noland, Pacific Basin Developing Countries: Prospects for the Future (Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1990), p. 152.
34. Nihon Kokusei Zue: 1990, p. 404.
35. Anthony Rowley, "Slowly off the Trade Blocs," Far Eastern Economic Review, June 18, 1992, p. 44.
36. Ibid., p. 46.