1. GO256: Conflict in East Asia Professor Walter Hatch Colby College Lecture 16

2. Foreign Policy of Japan

3. The Post-WWII Settlement

4. Article Nine of Constitution (1947) Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.

5. US-Japan Security Treaty (1951) US vowed to defend Japan against enemy attack Japan agreed to let US station military troops on Japanese soil

6. Economic Superpower and Political Weakling How to explain the persistence of the post-WWII settlement?

7. Explanation I: The Yoshida Doctrine

8. Living the Yoshida Doctrine “Omni-directional Foreign Policy” “Separating Economics and Politics”

9. Explanation II: Japanese Pacifism

10. Bowing to Pacifism The Three Non-Nuke Principles (1968) No production No possession No introduction Limiting Defense Expenditures (1976) 1% of GDP Comprehensive Security (1980) Yen loans and tech assistance to Asia

11. Exceptions: LDP Hawks Kishi Nobusuke Nakasone Yasuhiro

12. Growing Military Expenditures

13. Big Defense

14. The First Persian Gulf War

15. PKO Law (1992)

16. Post-Cold War: New Directions? Embracing Asia Giving yen Going multilateral Seeking a seat Consolidating the bases? Revising the constitution? Getting stronger? Going nuclear?

17. Embracing Asia flying geese model

18. Giving Yen (I) Began as war reparations Yen loans for resource development and infrastructure Tied to use of Japanese contractors

19. Giving Yen (II)

20. Going multilateral

21. Seeking a Seat UN Security Council

22. Consolidating the Bases?

23. Revising the Constitution?

24. Going nuclear?

25. Rough Relations North Korea South Korea China

26. North Korea Taepodong Missile Launch

27. North Korea (continued) Yokota Megumi

28. South Korea Dokdo or Takeshima

29. South Korea (continued)

30. China Senkaku/Diaoyutai Islands Military China’s defense spending China’s nuclear testing (1995) Japan-US defense guidelines (1997) Japan’s support for theater missile defense Immigration “Criminal DNA?”

31. The Burden of History Yasukuni Shrine