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Japans Changing Role in Humanitarian Crises

Extensive news coverage of humanitarian crises, especially on television, has led to a strong public awareness of the importance of humanitarian activities. This is the first book to comprehensively examine the evolution of Japans response to humanitarian crises, placing it in the context of global debates on humanitarianism. Tracing developments from the Meiji period through to the present day, the book explores the broader cultural and historical framework within which Japanese humanitarian ideas and attitudes to human rights have developed.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach the book analyses Japans humanitarian ideas, values and social practices, exploring the changing perceptions and attitudes to overseas assistance. Based on primary research including interview material, it provides a deeper understanding of the upsurge in Japanese involvement in humanitarian crises, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s. The book includes a variety of case studies with a detailed consideration of Japans assistance in East Timor. Nishikawa analyses the case from historical, geographical and political perspectives, illustrating the strategic and political considerations that have influenced the shape of Japans humanitarian activities.

There has been remarkably little in-depth scholarly writing on humanitarianism and human rights issues in Japan. Japans Changing Role in Humanitarian Crises fills this gap, allowing us to understand humanitarianism in Japan from the comprehensive standpoint of its historically and culturally distinctive settings.

Yukiko Nishikawa is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asia Pacific Research Center, Kobe Gakuin University and a part-time lecturer at Kobe University in Japan.

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, makes available original research on a wide range of subjects dealing with Japan and provides introductory overviews of key topics in Japanese Studies.

The Internationalization of Japan
Edited by Glenn D. Hook and Michael Weiner

Race and Migration in Imperial Japan
Michael Weiner

Japan and the Pacific Free Trade Area
Pekka Korhonen

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

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

Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan
Richard Siddle

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

Japans Contested Constitution
Documents and analysis
Glenn D. Hook and Gavan McCormack

Japans International Relations
Politics, economics and security
Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher Hughes and Hugo Dobson

Japanese Education Reform
Nakasones legacy
Christopher P. Hood

The Political Economy of Japanese Globalisation
Glenn D. Hook and Hasegawa Harukiyo

Japan and Okinawa
Structure and subjectivity
Edited by Glenn D. Hook and Richard Siddle

Japan and Britain in the Contemporary World
Responses to common issues
Edited by Hugo Dobson and Glenn D. Hook

Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping
New pressures, new responses
Hugo Dobson

Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era
Re-fabricating lifetime employment relations
Peter C. D. Matanle

Nikkeiren and Japanese Capitalism
John Crump

Production Networks in Asia and Europe
Skill formation and technology transfer in the automobile industry
Edited by Rogier Busser and Yuri Sadoi

Japan and the G7/8
19752002
Hugo Dobson

The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan
Between nation-state and everyday life
Takeda Hiroko

Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan
The rebirth of a nation
Mari Yamamoto

Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry
Ralph Paprzycki

Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce
Beverley Bishop

Contested Governance in Japan
Sites and issues
Edited by Glenn D. Hook

Japans International Relations
Politics, economics and security Second edition
Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher Hughes and Hugo Dobson

Japans Changing Role in Humanitarian Crises
Yukiko Nishikawa

First published 2005
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

2005 Yukiko Nishikawa

Typeset in Times New Roman by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised 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 publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Nishikawa, Yukiko.

Japans changing role in humanitarian crises / by Yukiko Nishikawa.

p. cm. (Sheffield Centre for Japanese studies/Routledge series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Humanitarian assistance, Japanese. 2. Humanitarianism Japan.

I. Title. II. Series

HV555.J3N58 2005
361.6 0952dc22

2005002935

ISBN 0415369029

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Acknowledgements

This book results from study over a number of years. It is impossible to adequately acknowledge and thank all those who have influenced this volume. In its preparation, I received invaluable help from a number of people. I single out here only a few for special attention yet each has my heartfelt gratitude.

I am deeply grateful to have been offered an opportunity to publish this book as part of the Routledge series, Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series. I greatly appreciated the in-depth and valuable comments from the series editor, Professor Glenn D. Hook. I have benefited enormously from the comment that he offered on revising the manuscript.

I would like to express my gratitude to Dr Peter van den Dungen and Professor Oliver Ramsbotham who supervised me while writing the original thesis. I thank them for their instructions, valuable comments, generous support and encouragement. I appreciate advice from Dr Peter van den Dungen at the preparation stage of this book.

I thank all the interviewees who offered me valuable comments and opinions to write this book. I also thank Richard and Adam for their patient proofreading.

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