The US-Japan alliance is confronting its most critical test since its inception in 1951. It is facing a new evolutionary stage in a radically-changed context, with the rise of China, Asia's economic crisis, and Japan's economic deadline and political immobility. This is an overview of the process of "redefining" the US-Japan alliance. It presents four specific case studies: the impact of macroeconomic and trade frictions on the alliance; the effect on the functions of the alliance of the suspicions about North Korea's nuclear programme; the vehement protests against the alliance triggered by the rape of an Okinawan schoolgirl by US servicemen in 1995; and the challenges to the alliance posed by the straining of sino-American relations over Taiwan and the Chinese missile tests in 1996, which prompted America's decision to dispatch an aircraft carrier to the region. These events were all part of the "redefining" process, a process which continues.
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A leading journalist in the area of Japanese foreign policy, Yoichi Funabashi is a columnist and chief diplomatic correspondent of the Asahi Shimbun and a contributing editor of Foreign Policy. This book was originally published in 1997 in Japan, and was the recipient of the Shincho Arts and Sciences Award for work in the field of humanities.
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rambling journalistic account of US-Japan relations,
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It is unclear to me for whom this book is intended. It is a chatty account of US-Japan relations -- sort of the great man approach to history -- at its worst. (We learn, for example, that Dr. Kurt Campbell, the deputy assistant secretary of defense, plays the violin and once lost a tennis doubles match to John McEnroe. Really. I'm not making this up.) Despite the fact that it is published by the Council of Foreign Relations, it is too rambling and journalistic to appeal to foreign policy analysts. On the other hand, at 500 pages, I can't imagine it appealing to a broad audience of people interested in Japan. Probably, its main appeal will be to the Washington and Tokyo insiders whose names appear in the index.
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