Case Study ( International Politics )
Faculty
K. Fujiwara
Y. Funabashi
Description
Seminar Description
In North East Asia, where difficult pasts have not yet been reconciled, poignant historical issues have become not just moral issues but also strategic issues for Japan ’s foreign policy modus vivendi with its neighboring countries.
In looking at history issues as a foreign policy agenda, we will focus on thirteen major case studies in Japan over the last sixty years which are still very much relevant in contemporary political discourse.
Specifically, we will examine the following cases:
•1 The Far Eastern Military (1946)
•2 The San Francisco Peace Treaty (1951)
•3 The normalization of relations with South Korea (1965)
•4 The normalization of relations with China (1972)
•5 The Fukuda Doctrine (1978)
•6 Textbook issues (1982)
•7 Comfort women issues (1990)
•8 The Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibition (1995)
•9 The Okinawa cornerstone of peace (1995)
•10 The Kim Daejung – Obuchi “reconciliation summit” (1998)
•11 The Jiang Zemin – Obuchi “non-reconciliation summit” (1998)
•12 Abduction issues and Japan – North Korea normalization talks (1997-2006)
•13 Yasukuni shrine issues (2001-2006)
Throughout the seminar we will pay special attention to Japan’s relation to the world, particularly Asia , and establish suggestions for how a systematic and enduring public policy can overcome these history issues.