2020 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Multi-Archival Analysis of Critical Junctures in Post-war Northeast Asia
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19H00575
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
Wolff David 北海道大学, スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター, 教授 (60435948)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
李 鍾元 早稲田大学, 国際学術院(アジア太平洋研究科), 教授 (20210809)
岩下 明裕 北海道大学, スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター, 教授 (20243876)
泉川 泰博 中央大学, 総合政策学部, 教授 (60352449)
楠 綾子 国際日本文化研究センター, 研究部, 准教授 (60531960)
井上 正也 成蹊大学, 法学部, 教授 (70550945)
松本 はる香 独立行政法人日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所, 地域研究センター東アジア研究グループ, 研究グループ長 (90450543)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Northeast Asia / International Relations / Conflict / Foreign Policy / Japan |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Kaken Buntansha presented cutting-edge research on Japan in the Cold War at the SRC 2020 Summer Symposium Newly declassified documents from Japanese ministries and agencies allowed significant progress in our historical knowledge of recent international relations in Northeast Asia.
Topics analyzed and discussed included the structure, evolution and turning points of key alliances and agreements; negotiations that succeeded and others that did not and were therefore rarely referred to, and the overall interactions and interconnections among the region’s main countries, including the ties between economic and political power.
Japan’s reestablishment of diplomatic relations with US, China, Russia and Korea after World War II was discussed, as was the unique role of Okinawa and the special meaning of nuclear weapons for Japan’s role in the Cold War.
A "practitioner" seminar was also held with retired Ambassador Togo Kazuhiko who explained as a participant how we should interpret the documents recently declassified on former Prime Minister Nakasone's July 1988 initiative in Moscow, giving a lecture at IMEMO and meeting with First Secretary Gorbachev.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Document collection and processing, paper preparation and preliminary presentations are proceeding on schedule, but international cooperation was negatively impacted in 2020, since buntansha could not travel abroad and international collaborators could not visit Japan. The arrival of zoom facilities allowed us to overcome some of these delays.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Buntansha will continue to revise papers originally presented and critiqued at the SRC Summer Symposium in 2020 in preparation for a conference on national security hosted in Japan. At that time we will also hold an uchiawase to plan the final stages of the Kaken. An additional event planned for this year is a two-day event on "Japan's Cold War in the Context of Japan's 20th Century Diplomatic History" to be held with the authors of a soon-to-be-published diplomatic history of Japan to discuss how some of the new perspectives on the Cold War being developed by our Kaken can already be incorporated into the coverage of Japan's postwar in volumes for wider dissemination. This will also be the last year for large-scale collection of documents. New FOIA materials should become available.
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