2017/08/30 by Jude Woodward · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies #Japanese History and Culture #International Relations and Foreign Policy
paper · doi:10.7228/manchester/9781526121998.003.0006
openalex publication_date 2017/08/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This chapter appraises Japan’s crucial role in the US ‘pivot’ to Asia, against the background of the evolution of post-war relations between Japan, the US and China. It argues that the rise of Japanese nationalism has encouraged it to challenge China, reorienting its military priorities towards China and becoming more assertive in the East China Sea. But while this has suited the US’s aims in the region, Japan’s nationalists are not it in its control. Their over-assertiveness and apparent revanchism has created problems between Japan and South Korea and an obstacle to the US’s goal of creating a northeast Asian bloc of the US, Japan and South Korea to contain China