Japan and South East Asia: International Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415182072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 434 str.

Wolf Mendl

Opis

Japan's relations with Southeast Asia differ in quantity and quality from relations with its immediate neighbours in Northeast Asia. The region includes the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Since the opening of the country in the mid-19th century, Japan's interest in this area, which is both geographically and psychologically remote from itself, has varied over time. In the early years of the 20th century, Japan's interest was limited to trade and investment in some of the European colonies which could support its industry and export market. During the time of the Pacific War, the area grew to be of strategic economic and military interest to Japan, culminating in its brief hegemony in the early 1940s and resulting in a lingering mistrust which has continued to have a bearing on the region's relations with Japan. Through the Cold War years to the present day, the establishment of ASEAN as a regional entity has had a significant impact on Japan's relations with the area. This collection details Japan's relations with Southeast Asia from the Meiji era.

Spis treści

Volume I
Part 1: From the Meiji Restoration to 1945
Part 2: The Inter-War Years: 1918-1939
Part 3: The Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Pacific War, 1941-1945
Volume II
Part 1: The Cold War Era 1947-1989
Part 2: Issues in the 1990s