In 1910, Japan was able to officially annex Korea, which they had controlled de facto since 1905. During World War I the Japanese secured the German interests in Shandong (later restored to China) and received the German-owned islands in the Pacific as mandates. In 1915, Japan presented the...
As the so-called "history problem" began to surface as a diplomatic issue with Japan's immediate neighbors, China and South Korea, in the mid-1980s, however, Japan's public diplomacy has come to face a complex external environment in which an emotional vicious circle started to emerge, ...
China, South Korea and Japan held a three-way forum on public diplomacy here in Beijing today. The forum aimed to promote cooperation among the three nations. It had three sub-forums separately focusing on political, economic and cultural cooperation. The forum aimed to promote cooperation among ...
Foreign relations are treated in Hilary Conroy, The Japanese Seizure of Korea, 1868–1910: A Study of Realism and Idealism in International Relations (1960, reissued 1974); John Albert White, The Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War (1964, reissued 1984); and Shumpei Okamoto, The Japanese ...
North Korea. In the short term, the impetus for better relations has come from two regional crises: North Korea’s August 1998 launch of the Taepodong medium-range missile over Japan and the near-collapse of the South Korean economy in late 1997. ...
Japan's effort in creating the “Central Asia plus Japan” dialog is part of its multilateral diplomacy. At the same time there are some challenges and problems in Central Asia–Japan relations. However, there are potentialities for future bilateral and multilateral relations. Japan like Korea, In...
Experts say that the two countries will have to find an accommodation on history if this round of diplomacy is to achieve lasting results. Choi Eun-mi, an analyst at South Korea’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies, said the summit wouldn’t change South Korean public opinion if it’...
This paper describes these agencies' role in academic exchange programs between Japan and Indonesia. Considering that the Japanese agencies work to promote Japan's soft power through public diplomacy activities under transgovernmental networks model, I utilize concepts of public diplomacy and trans...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire)—With South Korea and the United States estranged from North Korea, cautious hopes are reemerging that Japan’s diplomatic outreach to Pyongyang could lead to an opening for the resumption of long-stalled diplomacy for peace with the recalcitrant regime. ...
The U.S., Japan, and South Korea closely coordinate and consult trilaterally on policy toward North Korea, and Japan participates in the Six-Party Talks to end North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions. Tokyo, however, refuses to provide assistance called for under the February 13, 2007 Six-...