Hook Glenn D. - Regional risk and security in Japan whither the everyday

Japans unusual position in the realm of international politics encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia, both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst international relations theory offers a number of ways to analyse these relations, this book instead utilizes the concept of risk to provide an innovative perspective on Japans relations with China, North Korea and the US.

The book elucidates how risk, potential harm and actual harm are faced disproportionately by certain groups in society. This is demonstrated by providing an empirically rich analysis of the domestic implications of security relations with China, North Korea and the United States through the presence of US troops in Okinawa. Beginning with a theoretical discussion of risk, the book goes on to demonstrate how the concept of risk adds value to the study of international relations in three senses. First, the concept helps to break down the boundaries between the international and domestic. Second, the focus on risk and the everyday directs us to ask basic questions about the costs and benefits of a security policy meant to secure the national population. Third, what implications do these two points have for governance? The question is one of governance as Japans externally oriented security policy produces domestic insecurity shared disproportionately, not equally, as this volume makes clear.

Developing the theory of risk as a tool for understanding international relations, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, Japanese politics, international relations and security studies, as well as to policymakers and practitioners working in the field.

Glenn D. Hook is Toshiba International Foundation Anniversary Research Professor, School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK and director of the National Institute of Japanese Studies, part of the White Rose East Asia Centre, a collaboration between Sheffield and the University of Leeds, UK. His recent books include Japans International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security (co-author, Routledge, 2012, third edition).

Ra Mason is a lecturer in Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, special research fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the University of the Ryukyus (201415), Japan, and an honorary fellow of the White Rose East Asia Centre, University of Sheffield, UK. His recent publications include Japans Relations with North Korea and the Recalibration of Risk (Routledge, 2014).

Paul OShea is an assistant professor of Asian Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark and an honorary fellow of the White Rose East Asia Centre, University of Sheffield, UK. He has recently co-edited a volume entitled Risk State: Japans Foreign Policy in an Era of Uncertainty (2015).

Celebrating 50 Years of Japanese Studies at The University of Sheffield, 19632013

Series Editor: Glenn D. Hook

Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield

This series, published by Routledge in association with the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield, both makes available original research on a wide range of subjects dealing with Japan and provides introductory overviews of key topics in Japanese Studies.

1.The Internationalization of Japan

Edited by Glenn D. Hook and Michael Weiner

2.Race and Migration in Imperial Japan

Michael Weiner

3.Japan and the Pacific Free Trade Area

Pekka Korhonen

4.Greater China and Japan

Prospects for an economic partnership?

Robert Taylor

5.The Steel Industry in Japan

A comparison with the UK

Hasegawa Harukiyo

6.Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan

Richard Siddle

7.Japans Minorities

The illusion of homogeneity

Edited by Michael Weiner

8.Japanese Business Management

Restructuring for low growth and globalization

Edited by Hasegawa Harukiyo and Glenn D. Hook

9.Japan and Asia Pacific Integration

Pacific romances 19681996

Pekka Korhonen

10.Japans Economic Power and Security

Japan and North Korea

Christopher W. Hughes

11.Japans Contested Constitution

Documents and analysis

Glenn D. Hook and Gavan McCormack

12.Japans International Relations

Politics, economics and security

Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher W. Hughes and Hugo Dobson

13.Japanese Education Reform

Nakasones legacy

Christopher P. Hood

14.The Political Economy of Japanese Globalisation

Glenn D. Hook and Hasegawa Harukiyo

15.Japan and Okinawa

Structure and subjectivity

Edited by Glenn D. Hook and Richard Siddle

16.Japan and Britain in the Contemporary World

Responses to common issues

Edited by Hugo Dobson and Glenn D. Hook

17.Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping

New pressures, new responses

Hugo Dobson

18.Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era

Re-fabricating lifetime employment relations

Peter C. D. Matanle

19.Nikkeiren and Japanese Capitalism

John Crump

20.Production Networks in Asia and Europe

Skill formation and technology transfer in the automobile industry

Edited by Rogier Busser and Yuri Sadoi

21.Japan and the G7/8

19752002

Hugo Dobson

22.The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan

Between nation-state and everyday life

Takeda Hiroko

23.Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan

The rebirth of a nation

Mari Yamamoto

24.Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry

Ralph Paprzycki

25.Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce

Beverley Bishop

26.Contested Governance in Japan

Sites and issues

Edited by Glenn D. Hook

27.Japans International Relations

Politics, economics and security Second edition

Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher W. Hughes and Hugo Dobson

28.Japans Changing Role in Humanitarian Crises

Yukiko Nishikawa

29. Japans Subnational Governments in International Affairs

Purnendra Jain

30.Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism

Towards a proactive leadership role?

Shigeko Hayashi

31.Japans Relations with China

Facing a rising power

Lam Peng-Er

32.Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature

A critical approach

Edited by Rachael Hutchinson and Mark Williams

33.Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa

Miyume Tanji

34.Nationalisms in Japan

Edited by Naoko Shimazu

35.Japans Security Policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum

The search for multilateral security in the Asia-Pacific

Takeshi Yuzawa

36.Global Governance and Japan

The institutional architecture

Edited by Glenn D. Hook and Hugo Dobson

37.Japans Middle East Security Policy

Theory and cases

Yukiko Miyagi

38.Japans Minorities