Japan Debates the Korean Peninsula: Implications for Future Policy and U.S.-Japan Relations
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Japan’s debate about South and North Korea grew livelier in 20072008. As the strategic environment changed, right-wing opposition to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s supposed ‘‘Asianism’’ and center/left renewed hope for regional reconciliation produced a sharp exchange centering on the Korean peninsula, in which the U.S. figured importantly. Anxieties about national identity deeply rooted in history were compounded by the triple shock of the U.S. delisting the North as a terror-sponsoring state, the U.S.-caused global financial crisis, and Barack Obama’s election victory. Troubled by George W. Bush’s second-term foreign policy shifts, many Japanese people were unprepared for a new president more sympathetic to multilateralism. On North Korea, conservatives warned that U.S. policy was isolating Japan, but instead of refocusing on broad national interests, they pointed to the abductions issue as justification for a more independent foreign policy. On South Korea they welcomed the election of Lee Myung-bak, but that did not stand in the way of renewed stress on the territorial dispute at the expense of strategic thinking. Above all, ultra-conservatives cast doubt on U.S.Japanese relations without adequate resistance from others who articulated the rationale and values behind U.S. policies. As they awaited Obama’s initiatives, the Japanese were alert to Korea’s importance for a region in flux, but they were too absorbed in their own narrow agenda to prepare for a strategic response.
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Japan’s debate about South and North Korea grew livelier in 20072008. As the strategic environment changed, right-wing opposition to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s supposed ‘‘Asianism’’ and center/left renewed hope for regional reconciliation produced a sharp exchange centering on the Korean peninsula, in which the U.S. figured importantly. Anxieties about national identity deeply rooted in history were compounded by the triple shock of the U.S. delisting the North as a terror-sponsoring state, the U.S.-caused global financial crisis, and Barack Obama’s election victory. Troubled by George W. Bush’s second-term foreign policy shifts, many Japanese people were unprepared for a new president more sympathetic to multilateralism. On North Korea, conservatives warned that U.S. policy was isolating Japan, but instead of refocusing on broad national interests, they pointed to the abductions issue as justification for a more independent foreign policy. On South Korea they welcomed the election of Lee Myung-bak, but that did not stand in the way of renewed stress on the territorial dispute at the expense of strategic thinking. Above all, ultra-conservatives cast doubt on U.S.Japanese relations without adequate resistance from others who articulated the rationale and values behind U.S. policies. As they awaited Obama’s initiatives, the Japanese were alert to Korea’s importance for a region in flux, but they were too absorbed in their own narrow agenda to prepare for a strategic response.
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