Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations

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Cover Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Challenging International Law and Toward a Global IR? Chapter 1 How Did Two Daos Perceive the International Differently? A Quasi Solidarity? Ethos and Social Imaginary Perceptions of the International in Japan and China Conclusion References Chapter 2 Japan’s Early Challenge to Eurocentrism and the World Court The Japanese Government and the World Court Japan’s Turn to Civilizational Egocentrism Conclusion: The Legacy of Japan’s Early Attempt to Challenge Eurocentrism Notes References Chapter 3 Kōtarō Tanaka (1890–1974) and Global International Relations Prelude to Tanaka’s Latin American Informal Diplomacy National Diplomacy in Practice: Tanaka’s Intercultural Activities Tanaka’s Latin American–Based IR Theory Notes References Empire-Building or in Search for Global Peace? Chapter 4 Unlearning Asia Another Story of “Region”? Re-Contextualizing Datsu-A-Ron Past, Present, and Future Conclusion: Region as Alternative? Note References Chapter 5 Pursuing a More Dynamic Concept of Peace Establishing the IPR The IPR in the 1920s: Peace as Preserving the Status Quo The IPR after the 1930s: Searching a Renewed Concept of Peace The IPR and the Contemporary World Notes References Chapter 6 Rethinking the Liberal/Pluralist Vision of Japan’s Colonial Studies Colonial Studies in Japan Civilization and Global Civil Society Dehumanizing Effects of Colonization and Colonial Economic Development Autonomy of the Colonized Promoting Autonomy in the Liberal International Order Conclusion References Local(ized) Japanese Political Concepts for Twenty-First Century International Relations Chapter 7 Who Are the People? Kokumin, Minzoku, and Shimin: Communist Discourses, 1945–1955 Differences in Party Platforms: 1945–1964 The Rise of Shimin: 1960–1970 Two Connotations of Shimin: 1970–1996 Backlash against Shimin and the Return to Kokumin: 1996–2009 And the Present: From 2009 to Today Notes References Chapter 8 Amae as Emotional Interdependence Dependence and Dependency in IR Amae: Emotional Interdependence Japan’s Nuclear Energy and the United States Conclusion Notes References Chapter 9 The Pitfalls in the Project of Overcoming Western Modernity A Reversal of Superiority: The Emergence of Western “Universality” Overcoming Modernity and Pan-Asianism as a Rhetoric The Logic of Violent Paternalism in Asianism Conclusion Notes References Forming an Imagined Community, yet Reaching People Globally? Chapter 10 From Failure to Fame Part 1: Names, Vignettes, and Failure Part 2: “Shōin” Becomes a Hero Conclusion Notes References Chapter 11 Hayao Miyazaki as a Political Thinker Culture as Power Japan’s Soft Power Diplomacy Values and Right Wing Kyoto School Philosophers’ Cultural Politics Culture and Self-Reflection in Tosaka’s Theory of Morality Hayao Miyazaki’s Anime and Moral Reflection Conclusion Notes References Chapter 12 Who’s the Egg? Who’s the Wall? The Wall versus the Egg Hong Kong since the Umbrella Movement Egg as Food or as Life? An Egg, and so Much More Who’s the Wall? On to Ontology Conclusion Notes References Unique, but in What Sense? The Self in the Japanese Formula In Lieu of Conclusion: A Dialogue without Boundary Notes References Index About the Contributors About the Editors