Japan's Changing Role In Humanitarian Crises

by Nishikawa; Yukiko

• ISBN13: 9780415369022
• ISBN10: 0415369029
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this book Yukiko Nishikawa examines the evolution of Japan's response to humanitarian crises, placing the case of Japan with the context of global debates on humanitarianism. She traces developments from the Meiji era through to the present day, concluding that Japan's humanitarianism exhibits a combination of Western-derived universalist/cosmopolitan morals and ethics, fused in varying ways with more indigenous/relativist type Japanese values.

Author Biography

Yukiko Nishikawa is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asia Pacific Research Center, Kobe Gakuin University and a part-time lecturer at Kobe University in Japan.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	x
List of abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(1)
Global humanitarianism or Japanese humanitarianism?	2	(3)
Application of the East Timor case	5	(1)
Contribution of this book	6	(1)
Methodology	6	(1)
Limitations	7	(1)
Organization of the book	8	(2)
Discourse of humanitarianism in major political theories	10	(20)
Introduction	10	(1)
The concept of humanitarianism and humanitarian action	11	(2)
Theories and analysis of ethics and humanitarianism	13	(7)
New humanitarianism in the world	20	(5)
Politics in humanitarian action	25	(3)
Conclusion	28	(2)
Genesis of Japanese humanitarianism: ethics in Japanese society	30	(31)
Introduction	30	(1)
Genesis of Japanese ethics	31	(11)
Japanese ethical system	42	(11)
Contemporary Japanese ethical system	53	(5)
Conclusion	58	(3)
Japanese humanitarian assistance since the end of the Second World War	61	(41)
Introduction	61	(1)
Social condition and assistance in post-War Japan	62	(22)
The Cambodia Crisis	84	(9)
The nature of humanitarianism	93	(6)
Conclusion	99	(3)
Japanese humanitarian ideas and practice: a study through the East Timor case	102	(28)
Introduction	102	(1)
Humanitarian Crisis in East Timor: background	102	(6)
An overall picture of Japanese assistance to East Timor	108	(2)
Japanese humanitarianism: the East Timor case	110	(11)
Politics for action in the East Timor case	121	(7)
Conclusion	128	(2)
The political dimension of Japanese humanitarianism	130	(28)
Introduction	130	(1)
Japenese diplomacy and politics	130	(7)
Politics in the Official Development Assistance	137	(11)
Japan's role and international policies	148	(7)
Conclusion	155	(3)
Conclusion	158	(12)
The post-September 11 paradigm and Japanese humanitarianism	165	(5)
Appendices	170	(3)
Appendix A: Diet discussions on the issue of East Timor	170	(1)
Appendix B: Japan--Indonesia relations	171	(2)
Notes	173	(26)
Bibliography	199	(16)
Index	215