Toward a More Amicable Asia-Pacific Region

Yoneyuki Sugita is professor of history at Osaka University. He has been writing on US-Japan relations, Japanese foreign and security policies, and Japanese health insurance systems.

Sugita’s book presents many original and thought provoking new perspectives, as well as some genuinely interesting and potentially realizable routes towards improving peaceful and friendly co-existence in a region, which, despite free flowing economic links, is seen by many as having rocky political relations.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Yoneyuki Sugita, Professor, Osaka UniversityChapter 1: Yoneyuki Sugita Professor, Osaka UniversityU.S.–Japan Relations in Transition: From Cold War to Post-Cold WarChapter 2: Miyuki Daimaruya, Specially-appointed Research Fellow, Ochanomizu University,Experiences of Japanese AmericanSoldiersin the Korean War: Analyzingthe Case of a Nisei Woman’sMilitary Service and ResettlementChapter 3: Victor Teo, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong UniversityTowards a More Amicable Asia-Pacific: Rethinking Japan’s Relations with the US and ChinaChapter 4: Reinhard Drifte, Emeritus Professor, University of NewcastleApproaches to resolving the disputes in the East China SeaChapter 5: David Walton, Senior Lecturer, Western Sydney UniversityJuggling Triads: Australian Foreign Policy towards Japan and ChinaChapter 6: Emilian Kavalski, Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University Are There Normative Powers in the Asia-Pacific? An Inquiry into the Normative Power of China and JapanChapter 7: Bart Gaens, Senior Research Fellow, the Finnish Institute of International AffairsThe Asia-Europe Meeting ASEM: A Role for the European Union in Asia?About the ContributorsIndex