Japan's China policy: Implications for U.S.-Japan relations

Asian Survey

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1067-1082

  Johnstone, Christopher B ^a  

^a Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS;

JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032418411     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2645686     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. In an August 18 television interview, then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Kajiyama Seiroku stated, "[In case of a Taiwan-China military conflict] how could we flatly refuse a request from U.S. forces for support." The remark came in the context of public debate over revisions to the guidelines governing U.S.-Japan defense cooperation.
2. "Tainichi kanjo: Hageshisa fuyasu wakamonoso" [Sentiment toward Japan: Negative feelings among young people intensify], Yomiuri shinbun, September 22, 1997, p. 7.
3. Government of Japan, Prime Minister's Office, Gaiko ni kan suru seron chosa [Public opinion surveys concerning diplomacy], October 1997.
4. "Nichibei kyodo yoron chosa" [Japan-U.S. joint opinion survey], Yomiuri shinbun, November 4, 1997, p. 6.
5. See R. W. Apple, "Analysis: Plenty of Process, but Little Progress," New York Times (NYT), October 30, 1997.
6. Government of the United States, the White House, A National Security Strategy for a New Century, May 1997, pp. 16, 24.
7. Government of Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic Bluebook 1996, on the Internet at 〈http://www.mofa.go.jp〉.
8. Government of Japan, Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, "The Role of OECF Toward 2010: The Medium Term Prospects for OECF Operations," November 1996, p. 20.
9. "Hashimoto Spells Out New China Policy in YIES Speech," Daily Yomiuri, August 29, 1997, p. 3.
10. OECF, Annual Report 1997, p. 80.
11. Kent E. Calder, Pacific Defense: Arms, Energy, and America's Future in Asia (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1996), p. 50.
12. David Murphy and Tony Walker, "China Set to Open Far-West Field Further," Financial Times, April 4, 1997, p. 3.
13. Mark Valencia, "Energy and Insecurity in Asia," Survival 39:3 (Autumn 1997), pp. 85-106.
14. Geoffrey Murray, "Japan Expanding Role in China's Onshore Oil Exploration," Kyodo News Service, August 8, 1997.
15. "Lure of Oil Draws Japanese Companies," Nikkei Weekly, August 4, 1997, p. 18.
16. "Himotsuki enshakkan saikai" [Tying of yen loans to begin again], Yomiuri shinbun, September 14, 1997, p. 1.
17. Brian Mertens, "Japan Rides the Green Wave," Asian Business 32:21 (December 1996), pp. 54-56.
18. Export-Import Bank of the United States, Keeping America Competitive: Export-Import Bank of the United States 1996 Annual Report, pp. 33-35.
19. For an analysis of Japan's economic cooperation programs, see Christopher B. Johnstone, "Japan's Commercial Diplomacy in Asia: How Much Bang for the Buck?" in Council on Foreign Relations Study Group Papers Series: U.S. Commercial Diplomacy (New York: Council on Foreign Relations Books, 1998).
20. Michael J. Green and Benjamin L. Self, "Japan's Changing China Policy: From Commercial Liberalism to Reluctant Realism," Survival 38:2 (Summer 1996), pp. 50-53.
21. Government of Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, press conference by the press secretary. March 12, 1996, on the Internet at 〈http://www2.nttca.com:8010/infomofa/announce/press/ 1996/3/312.html#2〉.
22. "Tai-Chugoku, tai-Bei to narabu taisetsu" [Relations with China, America equally important], Asahi shinbun, November 13, 1996, p. 2.
23. Quoted in "Nation's Top China Hand Dealing Out Foreign Policy Losses," Mainichi Daily News, June 4, 1998, p. 14. Kato's comments drew criticism from elsewhere in the LDP for being too "soft" on China. Nevertheless, he remains a likely future candidate for prime minister.
24. See, for example, Stephen S. Roach, "China's Dynamism, Japan's Inertia," NYT, June 26, 1998.