Japan and Vietnam: A Relation Under Influences

by Faure, Guy; Schwab, Laurent

• ISBN13: 9789971693893
• ISBN10: 9971693895
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

Japan, the reigning economic giant of East Asia, and Vietnam, an industrializing socialist country in Southeast Asia with strong links to China, occupy worlds that seem not to intersect. Yet historical connections between the two countries date back at least to the fourteenth century, when a Japanese merchant community flourished in the city of Hoi An.

Author Biography

Guy Faure is presently Director of the French Research Center on Contemporary Southeast Asia in Bangkok (IRASEC), and Research Fellow at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Table of Contents

List of Map, Graphs, Tables and Boxes
Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
Japan's Presence and Influences in the Past
Japan's Modernisation as seen from Hanoi	p. 7
The Pacific War and the Imperial Army in Vietnam	p. 19
Vietnam's Perceptions from War to Doi Moi
The Vietnam War as Seen from Tokyo	p. 37
From Reunification to doi moi	p. 50
A Time for Exchanges and Rediscovery
Development of Business Relations	p. 65
Mutual Rediscovery	p. 86
Strategy, Diplomacy and Official Development Aid	p. 103
Conclusion	p. 119
Fact Files: Vietnam and Japan	p. 126
Chronology	p. 128
Notes	p. 154
Glossary	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 166
Index	p. 174
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