| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MINOHARA Toshihiro Kobe University, Graduate School of Legal Studies, Associate Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 助教授 (40314455)
IOKIBE Makoto Kobe University, Graduate School of Legal Studies, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (10033747)
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| Research Abstract |
As the result of multi-archival research and 5 intensive research workshops (including 3 Anglo-Japanese workshops), the project members were able to achieve multilateral and comprehensive analyses of Japanese diplomacy in the 1950s. Especially, project members were able to look at both Japanese diplomacy and the policies of the UK, the US and Asian countries towards Japan in a wider perspective of politics, security, economics, social conditions, and mentalities of decision-makers.
Thus we learned clearly that with the background of the Cold War, Asian Decolonisation and the growing solidarity of the Third World countries, Japanese diplomacy was formed as multiple combination of mutually-related policy decisions concerning not only US-Japan relations, but also Russo-Japanese normalization, the two Chinas, coordination with Britain's Asian policy. UN membership, accession to GATT and ECAFE, etc.
We also had a various new findings about the hitherto uncovered links between policy issues, links to Japan's domestic politics, use of informal channels, changes in American and British attitudes towards Japan in the mid-1950s, and perception gap between governments.
The project members are now preparing articles for a joint book publication in Britain.
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