Type of Credit: Elective
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Taught in English, this course is designed to explore the evolution of Japan's foreign policy as well as Japan's economic relations with the world through multi-dimensions, with a particular focus on the 21st century and Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). Contents: 1) Japan's perceptions of respective regions, 2) Japan's strategic, political and economic goals, 3) Japan's available strategic, political and economic means, 4) Japan's policy contents & priorities toward different countries and regions, 5) Those countries’responses to Japan's policy (implementation and evaluation), 6) Case Studies such as Japan's economic relations with the US, China, South Korea, ASEAN, Taiwan, Australia, India, Mongolia, Vietnam, the EU, NATO and so on, 7) implications for the regions and surrounding international environment.
Japan's foreign relations with a wide range of regions will be explored through student’s group debate and individual paper presentation. Those regions include Northeast Asia, ASEAN, NAFTA, EU and NATO, Indo-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, Russo-Central Asia, Africa etc. Contents are Japan's interactions with major actors in the region such as major issues, challenges and prospects as well as their economic, political and strategic implications for the region and the globe.
能力項目說明
Course Goals
* Help students verify sources and build a systemic framework of analysis linking theories of international relations to Japanese foreign policy, Japan's foreign economic relations and current foreign affairs relating to Japan.
* Assist in student's doing independent analysis based on primary sources and from Japan's perspective and policy priorities in addition to familiarity with features of Japan's foreign policy behavior.
Learning Outcomes
* Students will be able to independently explore and analyze Japan's foreign policy behavior from a systemic framework
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
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Week 1: Introduction: Approaches to studying Japan's foreign economic relations: a major characteristic of Japanese foreign policy
Week 2: Economic diplomacy: a major characteristic of Japanese foreign policy (ODA, FDI, EPA)
Reinhard Drifte, Japan's Foreign Policy for the Twenty First Century: From Economic Superpower to What Power? (St Antony's Series) Palgrave Macmillan, 1998.
Japan pivots away from peace as fear of China grow,” The Australian Financial Review, April 21, 2023, https://www.afr.com/world/asia/japan-pivots-from-away-peace-as-fear-of-china-grow-20230419-p5d1pb
Drifte, Chapter 6 Economic Power, pp. 65-75.
Philip J. Meeks, "Japan and Global Economic Hegemony," in Tsuneo Akaha and Frank Langdon (eds) Japan in the Posthegemonic World, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993, pp. 41-68.
Drifte, Chapter 7 Trilateral Economic Interdependence, pp. 76-91.
Juichi Inada, "Japan's Aid Diplomacy: Economic, Political or Strategic?," Kathleen Newland (ed.) The International Relations of Japan, London: Millennium Publishing Group, 1990, pp. 100-120.
Hidetaka Yoshimatsu, Dennis D. Trinidad, “Development Assistance, Strategic Interests, and the China Factor in Japan's Role in ASEAN Integration,” Japanese Journal of Political Science11. 2 (August 2010): 199-219.
Week 3: Japan's EPA and ODA Policy, China's Rise and Asian Economic Integration
Japan shakes up development aid to counter China's Belt and Road, Nikkei Asia, June 10, 2023, https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Japan-shakes-up-development-aid-to-counter-China-s-Belt-and-Road
Yul Sohn, “Japan's New Regionalism: China Shock, Values, and the East Asian Community," Asian Survey, May/Jun 2010. Vol. 50, Iss. 3; pp. 497-519.
Michael Auslin, “Japan's National Power in a Shifting Global Balance,”
Strategic Asia 2015–16: Foundations of National Power in the Asia-Pacific
Nov 2015
"Japan may be buffeted by China in digital field amid economic slump," Mainichi Shimbun, January 19, 2021,
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210119/p2g/00m/0bu/046000c
"Revisiting the Obama-Hatoyama Relationship," The Diplomat, January 12, 2021, https://thediplomat.com/2021/01/revisiting-the-obama-hatoyama-relationship/
Week 4: Japan-China Relations
How Will China’s Rare Earth Export Controls Impact Japan?, The Diplomat, August 18, 2023, https://thediplomat.com/2023/08/how-will-chinas-rare-earth-export-controls-impact-japan/
Japan Awards Kawasaki Heavy Industries $243 Million Contract for Homegrown Version of Tomahawk Missile, The Diplomat, June 7, 2023,https://thediplomat.com/2023/06/japan-awards-kawasaki-heavy-industries-243-million-contract-for-homegrown-version-of-tomahawk-missile/
Ted Galen Carpenter, “Washington Needs to Jettison Its Commitment to Defend the Senkakus,” January 9, 2020, This article appeared on China‐US Focus on January 9, 2020, https://www.cato.org/commentary/washington-needs-jettison-its-commitment-defend-senkakus
Timur Dadabaev, “Chinese and Japanese Foreign Policies towards Central Asia from a Comparative Perspective,” The Pacific Review, 2014 Vol. 27, No. 1, 123–145, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rpre20
Brendan Howe, “Between Normality and Uniqueness: Unwrapping the Enigma of Japanese Security Policy Decision-Making,” Modern Asian Studies 44.6 (Nov 2010): 1313-1336.
Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher W. Hughes and Hugo Dobson, Japan’s International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security, Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies, London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 164-173.
June Teufel Dreyer, “Sino-Japanese Rivalry and Its Implications for Developing Nations,” Asian Survey Aug 2006, Vol. 46, No. 4: 538-557.
Airiti Library 華藝線上圖書館: Taiwanese Journal of WTO Studies http://www.airitilibrary.com/IssueResult.aspx?PublicationID=18163092&IssueID=201012140024&IssueName=15%u671F
http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?rubrique82&lang=en
Week 5: Japan and NEA
Japan updates hydrogen plans, The Taipei Times , June 7, 2023, p.5, https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2023/06/07/2003801149
Japan-Taiwan Economic Relations: Officially Strangers, Unofficially Friends http://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/a02204/
Nojima Tsuyoshi, "A New Administration in Taiwan: Prospects for Relations with Japan,” 2016.7.1, http://www.nippon.com/en/column/g00372/
Bridges, Brian; Chan, Che-po, “Looking North: Taiwan's Relations with Japan under Chen Shui-bian,” Pacific Affairs 81.4 (Winter 2008/2009): 577-596,509-510.
Sun, Jing, Japan-Taiwan Relations: Unofficial in Name Only,” Asian Survey/Oct 2007): 790-810.
Japan–South Korea Economic Relations
Hook, Gilson, Hughes and Dobson, pp. 173-182.
Colbert, Evelyn, "Japan and the Republic of Korea: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," Asian Survey, Vol. XXVL, No. 3, March 1986, pp. 273-29.
Kim Hosupk, “Evaluation of President Roh Moo-hyun's Policy Toward Japan,” Korea Focus, November- December 2005, Vol. 13, No. 6, http://www.koreafocus.or.kr/essays.asp?vol=43&no=1229§ion=1
Week 6: Japan-ASEAN Economic Relations
Andrea Pressello, Japan and the shaping of post-Vietnam War Southeast Asia: Japanese diplomacy and the Cambodian conflict, 1978-1993, Routledge, 2017.
SUKEGAWA Seiya(助川成也), "Japan, ASEAN, and ‘De-risking’ Through Free Trade," The Diplomat, July 20, 2023,https://thediplomat.com/2023/07/japan-asean-and-de-risking-through-free-trade/
From Bangkok to Manila, Southeast Asia metro rail expands rapidly, Nikkei Asia, July 11, 2023,https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/From-Bangkok-to-Manila-Southeast-Asia-metro-rail-expands-rapidly
Mitsubishi receives $2bn order for Philippine commuter railway, Nikkei Asia, March 4, 2023,https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/Mitsubishi-receives-2bn-order-for-Philippine-commuter-railway
Manila debuts light rail cars built with Japanese tech, Nikkei Asia, July 20, 2023,https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/Manila-debuts-light-rail-cars-built-with-Japanese-tech?utm_campaign=GL_one_time&utm_medium=email&utm_source=NA_newsletter&utm_content=article_link&del_type=3&pub_date=20230723093000&seq_num=3&si=58556
Japan's MUFG to buy Indonesian car loan company, Nikkei Asia, June 26, 2023,https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-deals/Japan-s-MUFG-to-buy-Indonesian-car-loan-company
Sueo Sudo, "Japan's ASEAN Policy: Reactive or Proactive in the Face of A Rising China in East Asia? ," Asian Perspective33.1 (2009): 137-158.
Sueo Sudo, The Fukuda Doctrine and ASEAN: New Dimensions in Japanese Foreign Policy, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; 1992. [327.52S943; 697211]
Heinrich Kreft, "Japan's Links with East and Southeast Asia," Aussenpoitik, January 1996, pp. 71-81.
Ronald Bruce St John, "Japan's Moment in Indochina: Washington Initiative...Tokyo Success," Asian Survey, July 1995, pp.668-681.
To-hai Liou, "Japan's Responses to AEC and RCEP," International Conference on the Establishment of the AEC and RCEP: Challenges and Opportunities, July 29, 2015.
http://www.aseancenter.org.tw/upload/files/Liou_Paper.pdf
Tzu-Ting Huang, "Japan's FTA Strategy in the 21th Century: Leveraging between RCEP and TPP," Taiwanese Journal of WTO Studies（WTO研究）, Vol. 28, 2016, pp. 29-74.
Edwin Van De Haar, "Philippine Trade Policy and the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA)1," Contemporary Southeast Asia33.1 (Apr 2011): 113-139.
David Arase, "Japan's Foreign Aid to Thailand and the Philippines / The New Multilateralism in Japan's Foreign Policy, the American Political Science Review91.4 (Dec 1997): 1011-1012.
Fumitaka Furuoka, "Malaysia-Japan Relations under the Mahathir Administration: Case Studies of the ‘Look East’ Policy and Japanese Investment in Malaysia,” Asian Survey. May/Jun 2007. Vol. 47, No. 3; pp. 505-519.
Hook, Gilson, Hughes and Dobson, pp. 183-206.
Week 7: Japan's relations with Indo-Pacific
India and Japan: Connecting the Connectivities in the Bay of Bengal, The Diplomat, August 16, 2023, https://thediplomat.com/2023/08/india-and-japan-connecting-the-connectivities-in-the-bay-of-bengal/
The India-Japan-Bangladesh triangle is worth watching, Nikkei Asia, June 28, 2023,The India-Japan-Bangladesh triangle is worth watching, Nikkei Asia, June 28, 2023,https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/The-India-Japan-Bangladesh-triangle-is-worth-watching
Kishida pledges $75bn for Indo-Pacific infrastructure on India trip, Nikkei Asia, March 20, 2023,https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Kishida-pledges-75bn-for-Indo-Pacific-infrastructure-on-India-trip
India's Japan-backed bullet train project gathers speed, Nikkei Asia, April 7, 2023, https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/India-s-Japan-backed-bullet-train-project-gathers-speed
To-hai Liou, 2013, “India's Approach to Asian Economic Integration,” Chapter 7, The Rise of India《印度崛起》, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, pp. 154-186.
Henry Laurence, “Japan's Proactive Foreign Policy and the Rise of the BRICS,” Asian Perspective, 2007, Vol. 31, No. 4; pp. 177-203.
Lalima Varma, Japan-South Asia : security and economic perspectives, New Delhi : Lancer Books, c2000 327.5205 J35-III 國研四樓
Japan funding fuels development boom on Bangladesh coast, Nikkei Asia, June 26, 2023, https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Japan-funding-fuels-development-boom-on-Bangladesh-coast
Joshi Sanjana, “The Geopolitical Context of Changing Japan-India Relations ,” UNISCI Discussion Papers 32 (May 2013): 117-136.
Japan-Australia Economic Relations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93Japan_relations
The right lessons to take from Australia-Japan defense cooperation, Nikkei Asia, July 20, 2023,https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/The-right-lessons-to-take-from-Australia-Japan-defense-cooperation
A Look at Japan’s Latest Hydrogen Strategy, The Diplomat, July 7, 2023, https://thediplomat.com/2023/07/a-look-at-japans-latest-hydrogen-strategy/
Japan updates hydrogen plans, The Taipei Times , June 7, 2023, p.5, https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2023/06/07/2003801149
Australia no longer Japan’s ‘most trusted’ LNG supplier, The Australian Financial Review, July 5, 2023, https://www.afr.com/world/asia/australia-no-longer-japan-s-most-trusted-lng-supplier-20230704-p5dlpu
To-hai Liou, "Australia-Japanese Relations in the Post-Cold War Era," "Taiwanese Journal of Australian Studies（澳洲研究）, Vol. 1, 2000, pp. 153-178.
Andrew O'Neil, "Australia, Japan, and East Asia's Evolving Strategic Environment," Taiwanese Journal of Australian Studies, Vol. 7, 2006, pp. 81-107.
Malcolm Cook, The future of Australia-Japan Relations, Lowy Institute for International Policy, 2007, http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=707
Anno, Tadashi, “Japanese domestic politics and security cooperation with Australia: the limits of 'normalisation',” Australian Journal of International Affairs, Feb 2011, Vol. 65 Issue 1, p24-39
Wilkins, Thomas S.”Japan's alliance diversification: a comparative analysis of the Indian and Australian strategic partnerships,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Jan 2011, Vol. 11, Issue 1, 115-155
Week 8: Japan's Relations with NAFTA
T. David Mason and Abdul M. Turay (ed) Japan, NAFTA and Europe: Trilateral Cooperation or Confrontation? , 2016
Mireya Solís, Saori N Katada, "The Japan-Mexico FTA: A Cross-Regional Step in the Path towards Asian Regionalism," Pacific Affairs, Vancouver: Summer 2007. Vol. 80, No. 2; pp. 279-301.
Week 9: Japan-EU Economic Relations
Supply Chain Dynamics in the Japan-Europe Relationship, The Diplomat, Issue 105, August 2023,https://magazine.thediplomat.com/#/issues/-Na5hL5jCRKh5g9kAalh/preview/-Na5hNHs-lndgIL0eP64
Growing Japan-Italy Ties Emphasize Tokyo’s Pressing Need for Assistance, The Diplomat, August 14, 2023,https://thediplomat.com/2023/08/growing-japan-italy-ties-emphasize-tokyos-pressing-need-for-assistance/
"EU-Japan to upgrade security ties in Asia: summit statement draft," Nikkei Asia, July 4, 2023, https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/EU-Japan-to-upgrade-security-ties-in-Asia-summit-statement-draft
Mangantar Simon Hutagalung, "A NATO office in Japan would only bring trouble," Nikkei Asia, June 22, 2023, https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/A-NATO-office-in-Japan-would-only-bring-trouble
To-hai Liou, 2020, "EU-China Economic Relations in an Era of Uncertainty: Germany as an Example," Taiwanese Journal of WTO Studies, No. XXXIII, pp. 1-38.
Ryo Oshiba, “A Japanese View of the EU,”Perspectives 20.2 (2012): 103-128,142.
Week 10: Mid term Exam
Week 11: Japan-Middle East Economic Relations
Kishida’s Trip to Middle East Focuses on Energy, Defense Cooperation, The Diplomat, July 21, 2023,https://thediplomat.com/2023/07/kishidas-trip-to-middle-east-focuses-on-energy-defense-cooperation/
Japan seeks UAE investments in chips, batteries via new framework, Nikkei Asia, July 18, 2023,https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Japan-seeks-UAE-investments-in-chips-batteries-via-new-framework
Qatar 'prepared' to ensure stable LNG supply, emir tells Japan PM, Nikkei Asia, July 19, 2023,https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/Qatar-prepared-to-ensure-stable-LNG-supply-emir-tells-Japan-PM
Irina Ionela Pop, “China's Energy Strategy in Central Asia: Interactions with Russia, India and Japan,” UNISCI Discussion Papers, 24 (Oct 2010): 197-220.
Week 12: Japan-Turkey Economic Relations
Scott Morrison, Japan and Turkey: The Contours and Current Status of an Economic Partnership/Free Trade Agreement Insight Turkey 16.2 (Spring 2014): 183-195.
K Ali Akkemik, Is Turkey Turning Its Face Away From Japan to China and Korea? Evidence from Trade Relations Perceptions21.1 (Spring 2016): 45-62.
Selçuk Çolakoglu, Turkey's East Asian Policy: From Security Concerns to Trade Partnerships Perceptions17.4 (Winter 2012): 129-158.
Bahadir Pehlivanturk, “Turkish-Japanese Relations: Turning romanticism into rationality,” International Journal67.1 (Winter 2011/2012): 101-117.
Week 13:Japan- Central Asia Economic Relations
Lutfullah Mangi, “Dynamics of Japan-Central Asia Relations,” The Journal of Central Asian Studies 20.1 (2011): 125-134.
Michael Auslin, “Japan's National Power in a Shifting Global Balance,”
Strategic Asia 2015–16: Foundations of National Power in the Asia-Pacific
Week 14:Japan-Latin America Economic Relations
Ruben Berrios, “Japan's Economic Presence in Latin America,”Latin American Politics and Society43.2 (Summer 2001): 147-161
Week 15:Japan-Africa Economic Relations
Ilunga Tchoma Kitenge, “Japan-Africa Relations,” African Studies Quarterly 12.2 (Winter 2011): 89-91.
Howard Lehman, “Japan's Foreign Aid Policy to Africa Since the Tokyo International Conference on African DevelopmentJapan-Africa Relations,” Pacific Affairs 78.3 (Fall 2005): 423-442,347,352.
Week 16:Oral Presentation (20 minutes for each presenter, ten minutes for each presentation, 10 minutes for Q&A)
Week 17:Oral Presentation
Week 18:Oral Presentation
Students are required to prepare for group debate, individual paper oral presentation and written paper. As a result, in addition to attending lectures every week, they have to prepare for group debate themselves and group meetings at least two hours weekly in the first half of course. Then, they need to prepare for their individual oral presentation and written papers at least two hours weekly in the second half of course, in particular after the mid term exam.
Grade: midterm exam (30%); Group debate (20%); individual paper oral presentation (20%); paper (20%); class performance (10%)