Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism: Towards a Proactive Leadership Role?

by Shigeko Hayashi

Overview

Based on original fieldwork including interviews held with Japanese officials, this text provides important new insight into Japan and East Asian relations, principally through the close examination of changes in Japan’s regional policy. Furthering discussions on Japan’s new regional activism, Hayashi explores how Japan and East Asian relations have developed, how Japan’s regional policy has changed, and why.

In addition, the book challenges conventional views on Japanese foreign policy, arguing that it is not reactive but incrementally effective. The book incorporates three major case studies that provide detailed narratives and analysis of Japan and Washington’s diverging ideological approaches, Japan’s policies towards the East Asian financial crisis, and its policies towards East Asian regionalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415365581
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/22/2005
Series:	The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shigeko Hayashi gained her Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick in 2002.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction The Existing Debates on the Nature of Japanese Foreign Policy 2. Historical Review of Japan’s East Asian Policy in the Postwar Period 3. The Washington Consensus versus the Japanese Approach and Implications for the East Asian Financial Crisis 4. Japanese Policies Towards the East Asian Financial Crisis 5. Japanese Policy Towards East Asian Regionalism 6. The Style of Japanese Foreign Policy: A Low-Profile and Incremental Approach 7. Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

"Shigeko Hayashi's book on Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism examines the proactive initiatives taken by Japan in regional cooperation and finance." — Saori N. Katada, Journal of Japanese Studies

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