Dian The Evolution of the US-Japan Alliance

The Eagle and the Chrysanthemum
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78063-447-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 65, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Chandos Asian Studies Series

The US-Japan alliance has contributed significantly towards the development of the Japanese security strategy. The Evolution of the US-Japan Alliance explores developments in the alliance between the US and Japan and analyzes the transformation of the Japanese security strategy from 1960 to 2013. It also describes the rise and the decline of Japanese pacifism and of the Yoshida Doctrine, the post war security strategy. Moreover, this book highlights how the end of the Cold War forced Japan to rethink its security strategy and post war pacifism. Japan has abandoned its identity of 'peaceful nation, turning itself into a 'normal national, drawing closer to the United States. - Provides readers with a theoretical framework through which they can make sense of the evolutions of the US-Japan alliance and the evolution of the Japanese security strategy throughout post war history - Provides a comprehensive overview of the shifts in the Japanese security strategies and in the American foreign and security policies in the Asia Pacific region - Makes extensive use of primary sources - Addresses main debates on security alliances and security strategies - Incorporates the latest events such as the American Pivot to Asia

Dr. Matteo Dian is a Research Fellow at School of Political Sciences of the University of Bologna. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the Italian Institute of Human Sciences (Scuola Normale Superiore) in Florence. He held visiting positions at University of Oxford, London School of Economics, the Johns Hopkins SAIS (Bologna Center), and the European University Institute. He also taught at the University of Bologna, Ca' Foscari University in Venice, and at the overseas programs of the James Madison University, Kent State University and Vanderbilt University. He is also author of The Evolution Of The Us-Japan Alliance: The Eagle And The Chrysanthemum (Chandos Books, 2014) and co-editor of The Chinese Challenge To The Western Order (FBK Press, 2014)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dian, Matteo

Leseproben

Timeline of events
1945 Japan surrenders to the United States
Beginning of the occupation 1946 MacArthur orders the establishment of the Tokyo Tribunal, first
postwar election and first cabinet led by Shigeru Yoshida 1946 Beginning of the First Indochina War 1947 Enactment of the new Japanese constitution
George Kennan promotes the ‘reverse course’ 1948 Establishment of South Korea and North Korea 1949 Establishment of the People’s Republic of China
In Japan The Foreign Exchange and Trade Act limits the export of weapons abroad 1950 Outbreak of the Korean War
Establishment of the Japanese National Police Reserve Force 1951 Signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty and Security Treaty between Japan and the United States 1952 Yoshida Letter
The Japanese government pledges to recognize Taiwan
End of the American occupation of Japan 1953 End of the Korean War 1954 End of the first Indochina War
Creation of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces
Beginning of the First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1955 Beginning of the Second Indochina War
End of the First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1956 Japan becomes a member of the United Nations
JSDF promotes the first Defense Build Up Plan
Beginning of the Great Leap Forward in China 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1960 Signing of the Mutual Security Treaty between United States and Japan
Anti-treaty protests in Tokyo
Prime Minister Nobosuke Kishi resigns Hayato Ikeda becomes Prime Minister
Beginning of the Sino-Soviet split
Second Defense Build Up Plan 1963 Park Chung-hee elected President of South Korea 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Beginning of the US military presence in Vietnam
Eisaku Sato becomes Prime Minister of Japan
China detonates first atomic bomb 1965 Operation Rolling Thunder
Start of mass anti-war protests in Japan 1966 Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Shiina sent to Moscow in an attempt at mediation in the Vietnam War
First election of the Chief Executive in Okinawa
Beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China 1967 Sato–Johnson Communiqué
Japan endorses the American line in the Vietnam War
Three Principles of Arms Exports approved
Sato declares the Three Nuclear Principles 1968 Three Principles of Arms Exports approved by the Diet
Japan surpasses West Germany to become the second largest economic power in the world
Cabinet Legislative Bureau establishes the concept of defensive defense
Tet Offensive 1969 Nixon–Sato Communiqué
Nixon Doctrine announced in Guam
Sino-Soviet clashes on the Ussuri River
Nixon orders a major revision of China policy by issuing NSSM 14
Japan’s Diet approves basic law on the pacific use of space 1971 Kissinger’s secret trip to China
End of the Bretton Woods system (First Nixon Shock) 1972 Nixon visits China (Second Nixon Shock)
JSDF approves Fourth Build Up Plan
Okinawa returned to Japan
Kakuei Tanaka succeeds Eisaku Sato as new Japanese Prime Minister
Joint Statement between China and Japan
Park Chung-hee suspends the Korean constitution and declares himself President for Life 1973 US Congress approves the War Power Resolution Act
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sign ceasefire
Reestablishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan 1974 Restrictive interpretation of the Three Principles of Arms Exports
Eisaku Sato receives Nobel Prize for Peace
President Nixon resigns 1975 Fall of Saigon and end of the Vietnam War 1976 Death of Mao Zedong
Japan approves National Defense Plan Outline (NDPO)
Japan admitted to the G7
Three Principles of Arms Exports extended to all nations 1977 Fukuda Doctrine 1978 United States officially recognizes PRC
New guidelines for the US–Japan Alliance signed
Beginning of the Third Indochina War
Signing of Treaty of Peace and Friendship between China and Japan
Deng Xiaoping becomes paramount leader of China
Beginning of political and economic reforms in China 1979 Deng Xiaoping visits the United States 1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone named Prime Minister of Japan 1983 Hu Yaobang visits Japan 1984 Prime Minister Nakasone visits China 1985 Plaza Accord between United States and Japan
Revaluation of the yen 1987 Nakasone resigns
Civilian government replaces military rule in South Korea 1989 Suppression of Tiananmen Square protests
Emperor Hirohito dies and is succeeded by his son Akihito
End of the Showa era and beginning of the Heisei era
Fall of the Berlin Wall
End of the Cold War in Europe 1990 First Gulf War
Japanese chequebook diplomacy 1991 Demise of the USSR
End of the Cold War in Asia 1992 First Japanese peacekeeping operation (Timor East and Cambodia)
Deng Xiaoping retires from the political scene 1993 Ichiro Ozawa publishes a blueprint for a new Japan
Defeat of the Liberal Democratic Party at the general elections of 1993
Coalition government guided by Morihiro Hosokawa 1994 Signing of the Geneva Framework Agreement
Tomiichi Murayama is the first member of the Japanese Socialist
Party to be named Prime Minister of Japan after the occupation.
Another JSP member, Tetsu Katayama, was PM in 1947
Death of Kim Il-Sung 1995 Nye initiative
Approval of the National Defense Program Outline 1996 Third Taiwan Crisis
Clinton–Hashimoto Summit 1997 New guidelines for the alliance signed 1998 Taepodong Shock
North Korea launches a missile that flies over Japanese territory 2000 Release of the Nye–Armitage Report
Japan defined as the ‘UK of the Far East’
George Bush elected President of the United States 2001 Koizumi elected Prime Minister of Japan 2002 Jiang Zemin retires
Hu Jintao named new paramount leader of the PRC
Prime Minister Koizumi visits North Korea 2003 North Korea leaves the Non Proliferation Treaty and Nuclear
Safeguard Agreement stipulated with the IAEA
Beginning of the Six Party Talks
Japan approves participation in the Ballistic Missile Defence system 2004 Approval of Japan’s NDPG
Approval of the Araki Report
JSDF deployed in Sawaha, Iraq 2005 DPRK declares itself a nuclear state
US and Japan approve the ‘transformation initiatives’
JSDF deployed in Indonesia to contribute to the disaster relief mission 2006 First North Korean nuclear test
Yunichiro Koizumi resigns
Shinzo Abe succeeds as Prime Minister 2007 Shinzo Abe resigns
Taro Aso named Prime Minister
Japan Defense Agency transformed into Ministry of Defense 2008 Japan approves new space policy allowing use of space for defensive reasons
Barack Obama elected President of the United States 2009 Historic electoral success of the Democratic Party of Japan
Yukio Hatoyama elected Prime Minister of Japan
JMSDF participates in the Anti-Piracy Mission in the Gulf of Aden
Second North Korean nuclear test 2010 Hatoyama visits Beijing and proposes the creation of the ‘East Asia Community’
Hatoyama resigns after the Futenma crisis
Naoto Kan named Prime Minister of Japan
New National Defense Program Guidelines released
The Obama administration promotes the pivot to Asia
Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Crisis as a result of the collision between Japanese...