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E AST A SIA

H ISTORY , P OLITICS , S OCIOLOGY , C ULTURE

E DITED B Y
E DWARD B EAUCHAMP
U NIVERSITY OF H AWAII

A R OUTLEDGE S ERIES

E AST A SIA

H ISTORY , P OLITICS , S OCIOLOGY , C ULTURE

E DWARD B EAUCHAMP , General Editor

M ODERN E DUCATION , T EXTBOOKS , AND THE I MAGE OF THE N ATION

Politics and Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education: 18801910

Yoonmi Lee

P ROBLEMS OF D EMOCRATIZATION IN C HINA

Thomas G. Lum

T HE U NKNOWN C ULTURAL R EVOLUTION

Educational Reforms and Their Impact on Chinas Rural Development, 19661976

Dongping Han

M AOS P REY

The History of Chen Renbing, Liberal Intellectual

Jeanette Ford Fernandez

T HE R OOTS OF J APANS E NVIRONMENTAL P OLICIES

Amy Wong

T HE O RIGINS OF THE B ILATERAL O KINAWA P ROBLEM

Okinawa in Postwar US-1 a pan Relations, 19451952

Robert D. Eldridge

S OUTH -S OUTH T RANSFER

A Study of Sino-African Exchanges

Sandra Gillespie

S TUDYING THE E NEMY

Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity

Christiane I. Reinhold

S ELF -R ELIANCE OR S ELF -D ESTRUCTION ?

Success and Failure of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Koreas Development Strategy of Self-Reliance Juche

Phillip H. Park

T HIRD D ELIGHT

The Internationalization of Higher Education in China

Rui Yang

S TRUGGLE FOR N ATIONAL S URVIVAL

Eugenics in Sino-japanese Contexts, 18961945

Yuehtsen Juliette Chung

R ETHINKING J APANS I DENTITY AND I NTERNATIONAL R OLE

An Intercultural Perspective

Susanne Klien

J APANS F OREIGN P OLICY M ATURATION

A Quest for Normalcy

Kevin J. Cooney

V ILLAGE , M ARKET AND W ELL -B EING IN A R URAL C HINESE T OWNSHIP

Tamara Perkins

H ISTORY OF J APANESE P OLICIES IN E DUCATION A ID TO D EVELOPING C OUNTRIES , 1950S-1990s

The Role of the Subgovernmental Processes

Takao Kamibeppu

E NGINEERING THE S TATE

The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 19271937

David A. Pietz

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Copyright 2002 by Susanne Klien

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Klien, Susanne.

Rethinking Japans identity and international role : an intercultural

perspective / Susanne Klien.

p. cm. (East Asia)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-415-93438-9

1. JapanForeign relations1868- 2. JapanForeign relationsAsia.

3. AsiaForeign relationsJapan. 4. JapanHistoryPhilosophy. I. Title.

II. East Asia (New York, N.Y.)

DS881.96.K57 2002

327.52dc21

2002017788

For Matchan

C ONTENTS

C HAPTER O NE
T HEORETICAL I NTRODUCTION

C HAPTER T WO
J APANS I DENTITY D ILEMMA

C HAPTER T HREE
H ISTORICAL S URVEY OF THE E VOLUTION OF J APANS R OLE IN THE W ORLD

C HAPTER F OUR
T HE C ONTEMPORARY P OLITICAL D ISCOURSE IN J APAN ON J APAN S F OREIGN P OLICY

C HAPTER F IVE
C ONCLUSION

1. i
2. ii

Guide

Aims

T HIS THESIS PRESENTS A STUDY OF J APANS IDENTITY IN CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND historical terms and its implications for Japans foreign policy and international role from the mid-19th century until today. How the Japanese self-perception of the countrys role has changed throughout history is a particular focus of this study. While there have been numerous studies about these issues by Western scholars, few have taken Japans point of view into consideration. The Japanese domestic debate about Japans international role and international contribution has been intense and vivid; in other words there is an abundance of material. The problem, however, seems to be that a large part of this national debate has been carried out in the Japanese language and is, except for a few articles, not accessible in English. This is the reason why I have made an effort to base my analysis and reflections essentially on the Japanese self-perception and on Japanese materials. In other words, I have made a conscious effort in this study to overcome the Eurocentrist tradition and to present the Japanese perspective from an intercultural, universalist point of view.

Since this approach makes it necessary to incorporate knowledge from a wide range of academic disciplines besides political sciencefrom Japanese studies, philosophy, psychology, sociology and historyI would like to point out here that the aim of this thesis is neither to present a survey of the evolution of Japans international role in purely historical terms nor to pursue studies about Japans international role scenarios from an exclusively political science point of view. It goes without saying that such an interdisciplinary approach involves opportunities as well as problems.

Methods

The investigation presented here covers three main thematic areas: the above-mentioned identity issue, Japans relations with Asia and Japans foreign policy as a civilian power. Although each of these three pillars are individually complex in nature, they are all mutually related. Since Japan combines qualities that make it both Western as well as Asian, engaging in debates about Japans identity has become an essential need and a national pastime for the Japanese. The question how Japan defines itself in relation to its Asian neighbours is dealt with in the section about Japans identity issue as well as in the historical survey in . What makes Japans position in Asia so controversial is that on the one hand, Japan has managed to be seen as an economic role-model; on the other hand, however, due to the phenomenon of auto-Orientalism (Befu), Japan has not been accepted as a genuine member of the Asian community. In other words, since Japan has made a conscious effort after its successful modernization process to conceive itself as a Western nation, popular notions in Asia maintain that Japan does not belong to Asia (whatever the definition of Asia may be).

The civilian power concept was introduced by the German political scientist Hanns W. Maull at the beginning of the 1990s. This concept envisions a state which differs radically from the traditional Realist image of the state in the sense that power is no longer necessarily associated with military power. Due to its geographical and historical circumstances, Japan has often been seen as the ideal embodiment of such a civilian power. After tracing earlier instances when a purely mercantilist role was conceived for Japan, I investigate whether and to what extent the notion of Japan as a civilian power exists in Japans recent domestic debate throughout the 1990s. By means of a systematic qualitative content analysis of selected Japanese journals I conceptualize four different groups of thought in the contemporary domestic debate about what foreign policy Japan should pursue: Centrists, Independentists, Pragmatic Multilateralists and Pacifists. Although the unsettling and fluid conditions in which both Japans domestic politics and international politics find themselves since the end of the Cold War make a systematic categorization rather difficult, a clear picture of the individual groups of post-Cold War thought on Japans international role emerges in .

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