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...