The Future of Korea--Japan Relations: Proceedings of the Hudson Institute/East Asician Security Study Group Conference, 1997

by Hudson Institute; East Asian Security Study Group Conference; Dujarric, Robert; Dujarric, Robert; Kokusai Koryu Kikin Nichi-Bei Senta

• ISBN13: 9781558130807
• ISBN10: 1558130802
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Brookings Inst Pr

Summary

On December 5, 1997, Hudson Institute and the East Asian Security Study Group held a conference on Japan and Korea's future. The focus of the conference was to survey the state of Japanese-Korean relations and analyze how they would evolve in the future. In the two and a half years since the symposium took place the pace of the improvement of Korean-Japanese relations has been dramatic. Very few observers in late 1997, even the most optimistic ones, would have predicted that relations between the two nations would improve as rapidly as they did. Though much remains to be done, the trend line has been very impressive.Funded by the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation, these essays will help scholars and policy makers gain a better understanding of the issues surrounding ties between Japan and Korea.Contributors include Gary L.Geipel (Hudson Institute) Han Taejoon and Kim Taehyun (Chung-Ang University, Seoul), Hattori Tamio (Doshisha University, Kyoto), Kohari Sususmu (University of Shizuoka), Lee Sook-Jong (Sejong Institute, Sungnam City), Murooka Tetsuo (National Institute of Defense Studies, Tokyo), Nagashima Akihisa, (Council on Foreign Relations and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies), Otsuka Umio (Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces), and Yamaguchi Noboru, (Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces and current military attaché in Washington, DC).

Table of Contents

List of Acronyms	vi
Introduction	1	(2)
Security of Northeast Asia Following Korean Unification	3	(10)
Yamaguchi Noboru
International Politics of Korean Reunification: Reunification Process and Post-Reunification Regional Order in Northeast Asia	13	(28)
Kim Taehyun
Prospects for Japan-Korea Defense Cooperation: Partners or Rivals	41	(24)
Otsuka Umio
Searching for a Korean-Japanese Strategic Partnership: Beyond Maritime Confidence Building Measures	65	(16)
Akihisa Nagashima
Japan and the Korean Peninsula: The Economy of South Korea and Economic Cooperation After Unification	81	(14)
Hattori Tamio
Korea and Japan: Engaged, but Distant	95	(18)
Lee Sook-Jong
Mutual Understanding and Confidence-Building in the Internet Era	113	(2)
Murooka Tetsuo
Unification and the Social and Cultural Heterogeneity of North and South	115	(18)
Kohari Susumu
The Cost of Korean Unification and the Role of Foreign Investment	133	(16)
Han Taejon
The Diplomacy of German Unification: Lessons for Northeast Asia	149	(4)
Gary L. Geipel
About Hudson Institute	153	(1)
About the Contributors	154	(1)
About the East Asian Security Group	155