Japan's Post-War Asianism: Seeking Independent Diplomacy in the Framework of Cooperation with the United States

Japan's Post-War Asianism: Seeking Independent Diplomacy in the Framework of Cooperation with the United States

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Japan's Post-War Asianism: Seeking Independent Diplomacy in the Framework of Cooperation with the United States

 JAPAN SPACE

 2019, (25), pp.75-103

 DOI : 10.35506/jspace.2019..25.001

 Publisher : The Institute of Japanese Studies Research Area : Area Studies

 Received : April 30, 2019 Accepted : June 24, 2019 Published : June 30, 2019

Nameun Kim 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

열림/닫힘 버튼

Japanese diplomacy during the Cold War period was incorporated into the framework of the Cold War strategy of the United States, and there was a very limited room for Japan to pursue ‘independent diplomacy’. Nevertheless, Japan has sought to strengthen its own influence in the region, providing economic support and cooperation to the Southeast Asia. As for China, it tried to seek a gradual strengthening of its relation with China, emphasizing Japan's diplomacy is not necessarily following the policy of blockade based on the “separation of political and economic” consideration. It was, so to speak, a ‘2nd Back-to-Asia Policy Line’. However, Yoshida abandoned the normalization of diplomatic relations with China for the early realization of the San Francisco Peace Treaty, and Kishi, whose key task was the revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty, cut off further approach to China. Sato also emphasized economic assistance to Taiwan rather than further approach to China by fully implementing the US-Japan Cooperation Policy in order to realize the return of Okinawa. This can be regarded as a case of ‘cooperation’ with the United States in that it abandoned the restoration of diplomatic relations with China, and it can be seen as part of ‘independent diplomacy’ in that it got what it wanted. This study evaluates this approach of Japanese diplomacy as the manifestation of “seeking independent diplomacy within the framework of cooperation with the United States”. In this respect, it can be seen that Japan's diplomatic cooperation with the United States is not contradictory but complementary, and has the attributes of being two sides of the same act.

KEYWORDS

열림/닫힘 버튼

Post-war Japan, Asianism, post-war Asianism, cooperation diplomacy with the United States, independent diplomacy vis-a-vis the United States