1993 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Making of the Post-war Japanese Diplomacy
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05041043
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Institution | Rikkyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
KITAOKA Shin'ichi Rikkyo University, faculty of law, professor, 法学部, 教授 (80120880)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
AKANEYA Tatsuo Tsukuba University, institute of socio-economic planning, assistant professor, 社会工学系, 専任講師 (00212407)
李 鐘元 東北大学, 法学部, 助教授 (20210809)
MORIYAMA Shigenori Dokkyo University, faculty of law, professor, 法学部, 教授 (50107497)
ISHII Osamu Hitotsubashi University, faculty of law, professor, 法学部, 教授 (60116530)
LEE Jong Won Tohoku University, faculty of law, assistant professor
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| Project Period (FY) |
1993
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| Keywords | Japanese Diplomacy / Post-War / Cold War / US-Japan Relationship / US-Japan Security Treaty / Yoshida Shigeru / Hatoyama Ichiro / Kishi Nobusuke |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this project has been to collect in foreign countries basic materials on Japanese diplomacy since the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951 through the revision of the US-Japanese security treaty in 1960. Studies of Japan's diplomacy in this period have heavily relied upon the US diplomatic documents at the National Archives in Washington,D.C. These documents are huge in volume and rich in content. Taking into consideration the overwhelming importance of the US to Japan, it was natural that scholars first focused on these documents. However, Japanese diplomacy has to be studied from wider perspective. That is why we formed a team to do reserch in the countries which were close to the US but nonethleless had different viewpoints and interests from US's and in Presidential Libraries rather than National Archives in the US.
Our group of 5 made a careful coordination in Japan as to their division of labor and worked separately as follows.
Kitaoka did his research at the Public Record Office in London to study British documents with regard to their policy toward Japan, Asia, and US. Ishii mainly stayed in Ottawa to study Canadian diplomatic papers at the Canadian National Archives. Moriyama had been in Seoul to search for Korean material at the Seoul National University and Korean National Library but the result was not particularly fruitful. Li's effort at the Kennedy Library in Boston and the Johnson Library in Austin was most rewarding among 5. Akaneya was in Cambera, to work on Australian documents on foreign relations at the Australian National Archives and the Australian National University.
The aim of our project is too big to complete in a short period. Still, we are quite satisfied with the results of this project. We believe we have made a very good start toward a new study with this project.
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Research Products
(10 results)
