Postwar Japan's Diplomacy toward China and the Soviet Union and its Leaders' Perceptions on the Sino-Soviet Relations: Focusing on the 1950s

• Project/Area Number: 25780118
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: Niigata University
• Principal Investigator: Kanda Yutaka 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 准教授 (70609099)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 日本外交 / 日中関係 / 日ソ関係 / 日本政治外交史 / 冷戦 / 政治学 / 国際関係論 / 国際政治史 / 日本外交史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Focusing not only on the bilateral relations between Japan and the United States but on Japan's broad response to the trilateral power politics among the United States, the Soviet Union and China, this project proposes a new framework to understand the foreign policy lines of the "Conservative Mainstream" and the "Anti-Yoshida" groups in Japanese political leaders. Namely, the "Conservative Mainstream" sought the "Japan-US-China" partnership against the Soviet Union, attaching importance on the "pro-China, anti-Soviet" tradition of Japanese diplomacy, whereas the "Anti-Yoshida" groups pursued the goal of the "Japan-US-China-USSR," accepting the international order centered by Washington and Moscow and attempting to approach both China and the Soviet Union. These two respective goals continued for a long time, from the prewar period through the entire Cold War era. Depending on which faction was ruling, there was a clear difference in Japan's diplomacy toward China and the Soviet Union.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] New Discoveries and Implications from the Records of the Historic Sino-Japanese Meetings in 1972 (2017)
  • Author(s): Yutaka Kanda
  • Journal Title: Sources and Methods: A blog of the History and Public Policy Program Volume: -
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Adapting to International Changes: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan's Observation Regarding the Sino-Soviet Split (1957-1971) (2017)
  • Author(s): Yutaka Kanda
  • Organizer: International Conference on China’s Relations with Neighboring Countries during the Cold War: New Sources and New Perspectives
  • Place of Presentation: 上海（中国）
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] 中ソ対立の発生をめぐる日本国内の論争――政府・論壇・メディア (2017)
  • Author(s): 神田豊隆
  • Organizer: 20世紀メディア研究所・第110回研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 早稲田大学（東京都新宿区）
  • Invited
• [Presentation] ’Japan-US-China’ or ‘Japan-US-China-USSR’: Two Different Goals in Postwar Japanese Conservatives (2016)
  • Author(s): Yutaka Kanda
  • Organizer: International Relations Seminar at Osaka University
  • Place of Presentation: Office for University-Industry Collaboration, Osaka University（大阪府吹田市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-01-09
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] アジアにおける冷戦変容と日ソ関係――緊張緩和から停滞へ (2016)
  • Author(s): 神田豊隆
  • Organizer: グローバル・ガバナンス学会第8回研究大会
  • Place of Presentation: 早稲田大学（東京都新宿区）
• [Presentation] Driving the Wedge or Approaching Both? Yoshida and Kishi Factions’ Rival Policies towards the Sino-Soviet Alliance (2015)
  • Author(s): Yutaka Kanda
  • Organizer: Guest Lecture Presented by European Research Council Project (The Dissolution of the Japanese Empire and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Postwar East Asia)
  • Place of Presentation: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge（英国ケンブリッジ）
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-29
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 日ソ関係のロー・ポリティクス――日ソ通商条約の締結と戦後日ソ関係の始動 (2015)
  • Author(s): 神田豊隆
  • Organizer: 華東師範大学歴史系・早稲田大学現代中国研究所広域史研究会主催、日中共同ワークショップ「戦後アジア広域史（1950-70年代）：多層的秩序への視点」
  • Place of Presentation: 華東師範大学歴史系（中国）
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-07
• [Presentation] 椎名悦三郎の外交構想の変遷――『岸的』路線から現実主義者との共鳴へ (2014)
  • Author(s): 神田豊隆
  • Organizer: Breakdown of the Japanese Empire and the Search for Legitimacy” Conference
  • Place of Presentation: University of Cambridge（英国）
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-20 – 2014-09-23
• [Presentation] 1960年代における冷戦変容と日本外交指導者の国際情勢認識 (2014)
  • Author(s): 神田豊隆
  • Organizer: 東京大学大学院情報学環現代韓国研究センター2013年度第3回研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京大学
  • Invited
• [Presentation] The ‘Three Pillars of the Free World’ and Trade Liberalization Negotiations: the Case of Japan in the 1960s (2014)
  • Author(s): Yutaka Kanda
  • Organizer: The 4th Joint International Seminar, Faculty of Law, Niigata University
  • Place of Presentation: 新潟大学
  • Invited
• [Presentation] The Sino-Soviet Split and Japan's China Policy in the 1960s (2013)
  • Author(s): Yutaka Kanda
  • Organizer: The International Conference of China's Relations with Neighboring Countries during the Cold War
  • Place of Presentation: Center for Cold War International History Studies, East China Normal University
• [Book] The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia: Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife (2017)
  • Author(s): Barak Kushner and Sherzod Muminov(eds.)
  • Total Pages: 334
  • Publisher: Routledge
• [Book] The End of Empire and Japan's Search for Legitimacy (2016)
  • Author(s): Araragi Shinzo, Michael Baskett, Erik Esselstrom, Kanda Yutaka, Kato Kiyofumi, Kawashima Shin, Sarah Kovner, Barak Kushner, Kerstin von Lingen, Sherzod Muminov, Park Jung Jin, Sato Takumi, Franziska Seraphim, Shirato Ken’ichiro, Sandra Wilson, Urs Matthias Zachmann
  • Publisher: Routledge
• [Book] 日本政府的兩岸政策 (2015)
  • Author(s): 池田維、黄偉修、蔡增家、何思慎、李恩民、王新生、神田豊隆、浅野和生、黄自進、川島真
  • Total Pages: 329
  • Publisher: 中央研究院人文社會科學研究中心