2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

New Triangle Relations between US. China and Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number	12572010
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	海外学術
Research Field	Politics
Research Institution	Waseda University (2002) Aoyama Gakuin University (2000-2001)
Principal Investigator	AMAKO Satoshi Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies , Professor, アジア太平洋研究科, 教授 (70150555)
Project Period (FY)	2000 – 2002
Keywords	Image gaps / Constructive Strategic Partner / misunderstanding / Fragile relation / China threat / Competition and coexistence / Positive ambiguity / East Asian Community
Research Abstract	This research project has started from Apri 1 of 2000 and finished at March of 2003. The main purpose was to make clear the mutual recognition of decision makers and decision making process on the several political issues in 1990s among China, US, Taiwan and Japan. In the first year, I tried not only to visit to these places to collect some related documents and to interview some important persons who were concerned, but also to organize workshops with young researchers and graduate students. Through these researches, I deepened to understand the image to China of US, Taiwan and the image to US of China. In the second year, I tried to interview some brains of China and Taiwan in order to understand their recognition and strategy to US and Japan. In the third year, I had six times to attend the conferences of the 30^<th> anniversary of China-Japan normalization China and discussed on some important issues such as China-Japan, China-Taiwan China-US relations with many China's scholars. In addition, I had some chances to talk with famous US scholers on China Politics such as Ramon H.Myers(Professor of Stanford University) Harry Harding, Mike Mochizuki(Professors of George Washington University). I have just witten academic reports on the relations among US-China, Japan-China, Taiwan-China on the basis of these researches.