Japan's Economic Diplomacy With China, 1945-1978

by Soeya, Yoshihide

• ISBN13: 9780198292197
• ISBN10: 0198292198
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-15
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This book is a comprehensive study on Japan's postwar relations with China up until the end of the 1970s. The study is particularly strong on the detailed account of Japan's deep economic involvement with China initiated by a complex group of pro-China Japanese. It stands out in analytically placing the unique aspect of the postwar history of Sino-Japanese relations in an overall political context of Japanese diplomacy.

Author Biography

Yoshihide Soeya is Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Law at Keio University, Tokyo. He has previously been Visiting Fellow in the Program on International Economics and Politics at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Introduction	1	(19)
Purpose	1	(1)
Analytical Perspective	2	(3)
Three Foreign Policy Orientations	5	(8)
Collaboration with the United States	6	(2)
Autonomy vis-a-vis the US and `Autonomous Diplomacy'	8	(4)
Independence from Pax Americana	12	(1)
Structure and Motives of Japan's China Trade	13	(7)
Pluralistic Structure of Trade Relations with China	13	(2)
Reciprocity in Japan's China Trade	15	(5)
Japan-China Trade in the 1950s	20	(25)
Yoshida Doctrine and China	20	(4)
Japan's China Trade Organizations	24	(9)
Japan--China Trade Promotion Association	25	(2)
Japan Association for the Promotion of International Trade	27	(2)
Japan--China Importers and Exporters Association	29	(3)
Japan--China Trade Promotion Diet Members League	32	(1)
Japan--China Private Trade Agreements	33	(7)
First Agreement	33	(2)
Second Agreement	35	(1)
Third Agreement	36	(2)
Fourth Agreement	38	(2)
Structure of Japan--China Trade in the 1950s	40	(5)
Policy Orientations of the Japanese Government	41	(1)
Complexity at the Non-Government Level	42	(3)
Japan--China Relations in the 1960s	45	(15)
Issues and Questions	45	(2)
China Policies of Ikeda and Sato	47	(3)
The US Factor	50	(5)
The Taiwan Factor	55	(5)
Friendship Trade	60	(19)
Background	60	(3)
Institutionalization of Friendship Trade	63	(6)
Window Organizations	63	(4)
Friendly Firms	67	(2)
Transformation of Friendship Trade	69	(10)
Rift between JCP and CCP	70	(3)
Impact on Friendship Trade	73	(6)
LT/MT Trade	79	(27)
Genesis	80	(11)
The First Matsumura and Takasaki Missions	80	(2)
The Okazaki Plan	82	(1)
The Second Matsumura Mission	83	(2)
The Second Takasaki Mission and the Signing of the LT Agreement	85	(6)
Organizations	91	(3)
The Takasaki Office	91	(2)
The Beijing Liaison Office	93	(1)
Transformation to Memorandum Trade	94	(12)
Two Plant Facilities Contracts	94	(1)
Ikeda and Export Credits	95	(4)
Sato and the Yoshida Letter (1964)	99	(1)
Memorandum Trade	100	(6)
Diplomatic Normalization and Trade	106	(28)
Diplomatic Normalization: An Overview	107	(6)
Sino-American Rapprochement and Japan	107	(2)
Normalization as Autonomous Diplomacy	109	(4)
Zhou's Four Conditions and Japanese Firms	113	(6)
Developments in the Zaikai Community	119	(7)
A Delegation of Kansai Business Leaders	119	(2)
A Delegation of Tokyo Business Leaders	121	(5)
Transformation of Friendship Trade	126	(3)
Termination of the System	126	(1)
Friendly Firms and the JAPIT	127	(2)
Transformation of Memorandum Trade	129	(5)
China--Asia Trade Structure Research Center	129	(1)
Establishment of the JCAET	130	(4)
Japanese Diplomacy with China in the 1970s	134	(25)
Political Environment: An Overview	135	(8)
International Developments	135	(3)
Japan's Diplomatic Response (1): Fukuda Doctrine	138	(2)
Japan's Diplomatic Response (2): Japan--China Peace and Friendship Treaty	140	(3)
Trade Relations in the 1970s	143	(5)
Continuity and Change	143	(2)
The Old and the New	145	(3)
Long Term Trade Agreement	148	(11)
Japanese Actors	149	(2)
Process	151	(4)
Oil Imports and Plant Exports	155	(4)
Conclusion	159	(8)
Structural Pluralism in Japan--China Trade	159	(3)
The Japanese Government's Policy before Normalization	159	(2)
Non-Governmental Actors	161	(1)
Japanese Diplomacy and China	162	(5)
Bibliography	167	(16)
Memoirs and Personal Accounts	167	(4)
Other Primary Sources	171	(4)
Secondary Sources and Studies	175	(1)
Japanese	175	(3)
English	178	(5)
Index	183