1st Edition
Japan’s Cold War Policy and China Two Perceptions of Order, 1960-1972
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Research Questions and Analytical Framework
Section 1: Transformation of the Cold War Structure and Japanese Diplomacy in the 1960s
Section 2: Categorization of Two Order Frameworks and Leaders
2. Chapter 1: Resistance and the Failed Isolation of China: The Ikeda Administration’s Policies Toward China, 1960–1964
Section 1: Willingness to Deal with the China Problems
Section 2: Running in Opposite Directions: Japan and the United States on their policies toward China and the Soviet Union
Section 3: Rise of the Sino-US Confrontation and the Collapse of Ikeda Diplomacy
3. Chapter 2: Adaptation to, and Discord with, US-Soviet Cooperation: Japanese Policy toward China in the Early Sato Administration 1964–1968
Section 1 Sato Eisaku’s Personality in His Policy toward China
Section 2: Sino-US Conflicts and the Formation of the Japan-US-USSR Affiliation
Section 3: Debate over the Isolation of China
4. Chapter 3: Sino-US Rapprochement and the Japanese Diplomatic Choice – The Sato and Tanaka Administrations and the Normalization of Sino-Japanese Diplomatic Relations 1969-1972
Section 1: Emergence of US-China-Soviet Triple Axis and Alienation of the Sato Administration
Section 2: Sino-US Rapprochement and Sato’s Diplomatic Guidance
Section 3 Sino-Japanese Diplomatic Normalization and Anti-Soviet Resonance
5. Last Chapter: “Cold War” and “Asian Order”
Index
Biography
Yutaka Kanda is Associate Professor in the faculty of Law at Niigata University, Japan
