Christopher W. Hughes - Japans Economic Power and Security: Japan and North Korea

Japan's Economic Power
and Security

The world is faced with a diverse range of security challenges in the post-Cold War era. As globalisation continues apace, alternative options, other than the military, are needed to counter these challenges and ensure greater peace and stability.

This new book is concerned with the security policy of Japan and in particular how it can exert its economic strength to alleviate military tension on the Korean Peninsula and in surrounding region. It also provides a thorough analysis of new trends in Japanese security policy, the strengthening of its role in the region, and the changing nature of the alliance with the US.

Japan's Economic Power and Security is the first study to investigate, in depth, Japan's reaction to the diplomatic, military, and economic security crises generated by North Korea. Christopher W. Hughes reinterprets conventional views of Korean Peninsula security, Japanese foreign and security policy, and the function of economic power in ensuring peace and stability.

Christopher W. Hughes is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick.

Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series
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, will make available both original research on a wide range of subjects dealing with Japan and will provide introductory overviews of key topics in Japanese studies.

Greater China and Japan
Prospects for an economic partnership?
Robert Taylor

The Steel Industry in Japan
A comparison with the UK
Hasegawa Harukiyo

Japans Minorities
The illusion of homogeneity
Edited by Michael Weiner

Japanese Business Management
Restructuring for low growth and globalization
Edited by Hasegawa Harukiyo and Glenn D. Hook

Japan and Asia Pacific Integration
Pacific romances 19681996
Pekka Korhonen

Japans Economic Power and Security
Japan and North Korea
Christopher W. Hughes

Japan and North Korea

Christopher W. Hughes

First published 1999
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Hughes, Christopher W.

Japan's economic power and security : Japan and North Korea Christopher W. Hughes.
p. cm.

Includes bibliographic references and index.
1. JapanRelationsKorea (North) 2. Korea (North)RelationsJapan. 3. Security, International. 4. JapanMilitary policy.
5. Korea (North)Military policy. I. Title.

DS849.K7H85 1999 98-48298
303.4825205193dc21 CIP

ISBN 0-415-20183-7

The task of writing about JapanNorth Korea relations and Japanese security policy is one greatly complicated by the paucity of information concerning the former and the speed of change of contemporary events relating to both. I have been fortunate, though, to receive the active support of many friends and colleagues in Japan and the UK who have assisted me throughout the writing of this book.

In Japan, initial fieldwork for the doctoral dissertation upon which this book is based was carried out at the Graduate School of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo. I would like to thank all the academic staff and students of that institution for support during my stay there. Special thanks go to Takahashi Susumu for his wise and kind supervision, to Tanaka Akihiko for helping me to get some key interviews, and to Kimura Masatoshi for his patient tutoring and for helping me to navigate my way around the world of Japanese politics and scholarship. Hugo Dobson read drafts of the book manuscript and gave invaluable advice. The conversion of the dissertation into a book was carried out mostly at the Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University. I would like to express my gratitude to Matsuo Masatsugu, Ogashiwa Yko, and the other members of the institute for providing me with such an excellent research environment to finish the book. I am only sorry that I was unable to stay longer. I am also grateful to the many scholars, government officials, politicians, and businessmen who spared their time to talk to me about my research and the often rather delicate subject of JapanNorth Korea relations. In addition, Mark Aldred deserves thanks for his skill in helping in the preparation of maps.

On the UK side, although not involved directly in the dissertation or book, James Campbell and Harry Pitt have been constant intellectual influences. The dissertation was submitted in 1997 to the School of East Asian Studies, The University of Sheffield, and Reinhard Drifte, Julie Gilson, Richard Higgott, and Robert Taylor all took the trouble to read the original version and give incisive comments on how to change it into a monograph. I also want to thank Victoria Smith, James Whiting, and the anonymous referees at Routledge for giving me the opportunity to publish my work. However, the greatest share of thanks has to go to my former dissertation supervisor and the series editor, Glenn Hook, who read and commented on all drafts of the dissertation and book. If it were not for Glenn Hook's exceptional supervision and guidance, this project could never have been completed.

I have learned a great deal from all of those mentioned above, but I alone am responsible for any errors of fact or interpretation contained in this work.

Funding for research was kindly provided by the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Chb Electric Power Company, and the British Academy. Parts of first appeared in Survival (vol. 38, no. 2, 1996) and The Pacific Review (vol. 11, no. 3, 1998), and I thank the editors of these journals for allowing me to use the material here.

Finally, I wish to thank my parents for their unstinting support and faith in me during the whole process of the PhD, and my wife, Chiyako, for her love and patience in tolerating my preoccupation with this book.

C. W. Hughes
Hiroshima, September 1998