Japanese and Korean Politics

Yuki Asaba, University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan Seung-chan Boo, Yonsei University, South Korea Yutaka Harada, Waseda University Takashi Inoguchi, University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan Won-Teak Kang, Seoul National University. South Korea Satoru Miyamoto, Seigakuin University, Japan Jongryn Mo, Yonsei University, South Korea Chung-In Moon. Yonsei University, South Korea, Ambassador for International Security Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Republic of Korea Cheol Hee Park, Seoul National University. South Korea Seung-won Suh, Korea University in Seoul, South Korea Kazuhiko Togo, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan

"The book is insightful for emphasizing how party politics and macroeconomic/monetary policies-two areas that many security-focused books overlook-are closely linked to bilateral interactions. ... The book's greatest strength is the way that it highlights Japan and South Korea's diverging strategies in facing the United States-China rivalry, and explaining this as one of the most serious sources of bilateral deadlock." (Seung Hyok Lee, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 89 (2), June, 2016)

• Introduction: Are Japan and Korea Alone and Apart Each Other?; Takashi Inoguchi? JAPANESE POLITICS 1. Abenomics and Abegeopolitics; Takashi Inoguchi 2. Expansionary Monetary Policy Revised; Yutaka Harada 3. Return to the Liberal Democratic Party Dominance?; Cheol Hee Park 4. Japanese Realignment Impacting Korean-Japanese Relations; Seung-won Suh KOREAN POLITICS 5. South Korea's 2012 Presidential Election; Wan-Taek Kang 6. Transformation of Korean Developmental Capitalism; Jongryn Mo 7. Park Geun Hye's policy toward North Korea and Beyond; Satoru Miyamoto 8. Korean Parliamentary Politics; Yuki Asaba FOREIGN POLICY: JAPAN AND KOREA 9. Japanese Foreign Policy : Abe II and Beyond; Kazuhiko Togo 10. Korean Foreign Policy: Geun-hye Park Looks at China and North Korea; Chung-In Moon and Seung-Chan Boo 11. The Korea Peninsula and Japan: Global Money Flows as Framing International Relations; Takashi Inoguchi