"First book-length investigation of modern Japanese political thought and IR with a focus on non-western and indigenous Asian practices of IR"--.

• Cover
• Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations
• Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Challenging International Law and Toward a Global IR?
  • Chapter 1
  • How Did Two Daos Perceive the International Differently?
    • A Quasi Solidarity?
    • Ethos and Social Imaginary
    • Perceptions of the International in Japan and China
    • Conclusion
    • References
  • Chapter 2
  • Japan’s Early Challenge to Eurocentrism and the World Court
    • The Japanese Government and the World Court
    • Japan’s Turn to Civilizational Egocentrism
    • Conclusion: The Legacy of Japan’s Early Attempt to Challenge Eurocentrism
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 3
  • Kōtarō Tanaka (1890–1974) and Global International Relations
    • Prelude to Tanaka’s Latin American Informal Diplomacy
    • National Diplomacy in Practice: Tanaka’s Intercultural Activities
    • Tanaka’s Latin American–Based IR Theory
    • Notes
    • References
• Empire-Building or in Search for Global Peace?
  • Chapter 4
  • Unlearning Asia
    • Another Story of “Region”?
    • Re-Contextualizing Datsu-A-Ron
    • Past, Present, and Future
    • Conclusion: Region as Alternative?
    • Note
    • References
  • Chapter 5
  • Pursuing a More Dynamic Concept of Peace
    • Establishing the IPR
    • The IPR in the 1920s: Peace as Preserving the Status Quo
    • The IPR after the 1930s: Searching a Renewed Concept of Peace
    • The IPR and the Contemporary World
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 6
  • Rethinking the Liberal/Pluralist Vision of Japan’s Colonial Studies
    • Colonial Studies in Japan
    • Civilization and Global Civil Society
    • Dehumanizing Effects of Colonization and Colonial Economic Development
    • Autonomy of the Colonized
    • Promoting Autonomy in the Liberal International Order
    • Conclusion
    • References
• Local(ized) Japanese Political Concepts for Twenty-First Century International Relations
  • Chapter 7
  • Who Are the People?
    • Kokumin, Minzoku, and Shimin: Communist Discourses, 1945–1955
    • Differences in Party Platforms: 1945–1964
    • The Rise of Shimin: 1960–1970
    • Two Connotations of Shimin: 1970–1996
    • Backlash against Shimin and the Return to Kokumin: 1996–2009
    • And the Present: From 2009 to Today
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 8
  • Amae as Emotional Interdependence
    • Dependence and Dependency in IR
    • Amae: Emotional Interdependence
    • Japan’s Nuclear Energy and the United States
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 9
  • The Pitfalls in the Project of Overcoming Western Modernity
    • A Reversal of Superiority: The Emergence of Western “Universality”
    • Overcoming Modernity and Pan-Asianism as a Rhetoric
    • The Logic of Violent Paternalism in Asianism
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • References
• Forming an Imagined Community, yet Reaching People Globally?
  • Chapter 10
  • From Failure to Fame
    • Part 1: Names, Vignettes, and Failure
    • Part 2: “Shōin” Becomes a Hero
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 11
  • Hayao Miyazaki as a Political Thinker
    • Culture as Power
    • Japan’s Soft Power Diplomacy Values and Right Wing Kyoto School Philosophers’ Cultural Politics
    • Culture and Self-Reflection in Tosaka’s Theory of Morality
    • Hayao Miyazaki’s Anime and Moral Reflection
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 12
  • Who’s the Egg? Who’s the Wall?
    • The Wall versus the Egg
    • Hong Kong since the Umbrella Movement
    • Egg as Food or as Life?
    • An Egg, and so Much More
    • Who’s the Wall?
    • On to Ontology
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • References
    • Unique, but in What Sense?
    • The Self in the Japanese Formula
    • In Lieu of Conclusion: A Dialogue without Boundary
    • Notes
    • References
  • Index
  • About the Contributors
  • About the Editors