Japans Island Troubles with China and Korea
This book examines the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute between Japan and China and the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute between Japan and Korea, in order to offer new perspectives on the possible approaches towards amelioration and resolution of these conflicts.
Japans Island Troubles with China and Korea addresses the prospects of and challenges to achieving resolutions in the island disputes, rather than focusing solely on their origins and the political roles they play in the domestic politics of the three nations. Furthermore, in taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book transcends existing studies, which focus on the domestic contexts of the disputes, and therefore avoids the pitfalls of nationalistic narratives. Instead, this book fills a theoretical and methodological lacuna in the academic literature, exploring how the islands could become a point of co-operation, rather than contention.
Providing a fresh examination of Japans relations with its two closest neighbours, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of Asian politics and international relations, security studies, and Asia-Pacific studies more generally.
Victor Teo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the international relations of the Asia-Pacific, with emphasis on Japans relations with China and the United States. He is also interested in the illicit political economy of China, as well as North Koreas international relations and domestic politics.
Haruko Satoh is a Professor in the Osaka School of International Public Policy at Osaka University. Her research interests include JapanChina relations and Japans nation-state identity issues in East Asian international politics. She has previously worked at the Japan Institute of International Affairs and Chatham House.
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Japans Island Troubles with
China and Korea
Prospects and Challenges for Resolution
Edited by Victor Teo and
Haruko Satoh
First published 2019
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Jaewoo Choo is Professor of Chinese Foreign Policy in the Department of Chinese Studies at Kyung Hee University, Korea. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. (2014), and a Visiting Professor in Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology (20112012), where he taught inter-Korean relations and North Korean politics and foreign policy. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University (BA in Government) and Peking University (MA and PhD in International Relations). He has previously worked at a number of think tanks in Korea, such as the National Security Policy Institute and Institute for International Trade at the Korea International Trade Association. His research interests are Chinese foreign policy, multilateral security co-operation, USChina relations, and ChinaNorth Korea relations. He was also a contributor to Asia Times Online ( www.atimes.com ) from 2002 to 2005 and currently contributes to International Public Policy Review ( www.ippreview.com ) on Korean affairs. Publications include USChina Relations: From Korean War to THAAD Conflict (Kyung-In Culture Publishing, 2017, in Korean) and US and Chinas Strategy on the Korean Peninsula: Reading from the Facts (Paper and Tree, 2018, in Korean). He is currently working on a book manuscript, Chinas Diplomacy: Concepts, Strategies, and Diplomacy , and ChinaNorth Korea Relations during Kim Jong-ils Era (publisher TBD).
Edmund Frettingham is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leiden University. He has a PhD in International Relations from Aberystwyth University, for a thesis on liberal responses to religious violence and the construction of the concept of religion in international relations. His current research focuses on the background understandings implicit in contemporary critical approaches to security, the relationship between ethics and security practice, and discourses of security and religion in East Asia.
Yuji Hosaka is a Professor of Political Science at Sejong University, Seoul, the Republic of Korea, and also the head of the Dokdo Research Institute at Sejong University. He was a board member of the Independence Hall of Korea until February 2018. Professor Hosaka currently teaches the history between Korea and Japan, Dokdo issues from the viewpoints of history and international law, and the political economy. His main research mostly targets historical issues between Korea and Japan which still plague the relationship today, such as the Dokdo territorial issue, the return of Korean art objects looted by Japan in colonial era, and several issues in KoreaJapan talks from 1951 to 1965, etc. He is a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science. He became naturalized as a Korean citizen in 2003. His publications in Korean include: The Collection of Evidence of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Problems (2018); Dokdo, Its 1,500-Year History (2016); The Textbook of Dokdo in the Republic of Korea (2012); Dokdo, the Island of the Republic of Korea (2010); Dokdo in Korean History (2009); The Study of Joseon Seonbi and Japanese Samurai (2008); and The Women Who Moved the History of Japan (2006). He also wrote KoreaJapan History with Dokdo (2016, in Japanese), and released the SSCI paper Article 2 of the KoreaJapan Basic Treaty and Japans Repatriation of Korean Cultural Properties: Reviewing Travaux Prparatoires in 2017 and Is the So-called Rusk Letter Be [ sic ] a Critical Evidence of Japans Territorial Claim to Dokdo Island? in 2014. He manages the website Dokdo & East Asia, www.dokdoandeastasia.com .
