Hidetaka Yoshimatsu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 748643 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hidetaka Yoshimatsu |
| NOMBRES | Hidetaka |
| APELLIDO | Yoshimatsu |
| FIRMA | YOSHIMATSU H |
| AFILIACIONES | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9364-9551 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 142 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Policy emulation and vested interests
China’s growing technological power and the resulting US–China rivalry prompted various countries, including Japan, to adopt necessary countermeasures. This study examines Japan’s strategic approach to economic security and technology policy under the framework of policy emulation and vested interests. The US–China technology competition urged Japan to reformulate its technological strategies with the aim of reducing economic dependence on China.…
Japan’s critical mineral diplomacy
The Development of Japan's Indo‐Pacific Strategy
The Free and Open Indo‐Pacific (FOIP) has served as Japan's central diplomatic vision since its launch in 2016. This paper examines how and why Japan's FOIP has evolved in response to changing strategic environments since its inception. This paper addresses this question by examining the three versions of FOIP and analyzing the evolving positions of key components in terms of policy objectives and means, from its inception under the Abe administr…
Japan's Economic Security
The intensifying technological confrontation between the United States and China has compelled Japan to implement policies and measures to safeguard supply chain networks and sensitive technologies. This article analyzes the development of Japan's economic security strategy with a focus on domestic policymaking, aiming to identify its key characteristics and the domestic factors that have shaped them. The findings confirm that Japan's economic se…
Expanding the study of the EU-centred actorness
India and Japan in the Indo-Pacific
With China’s growing presence in the world, strategic rivalry between the US and China intensified after the 2010s. India is one of the representative states that have received significant impacts from the rise of China and the escalating Sino-US hegemonic competition in the emerging Indo-Pacific construct. This study seeks to enrich past research on India’s strategies for Indo-Pacific politics by adopting a comparative method. It analyzes Japan’…
Examining China and Japan’s Narratives as Diplomatic Tools
In the new millennium, China and Japan have become eager to use narratives and discourses as diplomatic tools to manage external relations and enhance their international profiles. Although these trends have prompted research into the discourses and narratives of China and Japan, previous studies have not fully explored the competitive characteristics of the two states' ideational visions. This article aims to unravel the nature and features of i…
Promoting the Rules-Based Regional Order
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Maintaining influence through economic statecraft
Australia has historically been a prominent diplomatic partner for the Pacific Island countries, providing development assistance to support their social and economic progress. China gradually heightened its political and economic influence in the Pacific area by integrating the region into its Belt and Road Initiative. This development has encouraged scholars to examine Australia's diplomatic engagements in the Pacific region in response to Chin…
Meanings, norms, and social constitution
This article examines the implications of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) centrality in East Asian regionalism. It seeks to address the question of how ASEAN created and maintained its central position in East Asian regionalism by managing regional cooperation in general and institution-building in particular. This article addresses the question by relying on the theoretical concept of productive power and tangible attributes a…
Rationality and Relationality
Since the 2010s, infrastructure investment has emerged as a critical field for Japan’s foreign policy and international relations. This article examines major characteristics of the development of Japan’s external engagement in infrastructure investment from a socio-cultural perspective. It argues that key political figures played a pivotal role in paving the way for Japan’s policy shift in infrastructure investment based on social relationality …
India's Response to China's Geoeconomic Rise
China's geoeconomic assertiveness through the Belt and Road Initiative and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has a significant impact on countries in various parts of the world, and India is one of the major countries that have received complicated influences from such assertiveness. This article aims to examine India's strategic response to China's increasing geoeconomic presence in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region. It argues that India…
Asean and Great Power Rivalry in Regionalism
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which serves as the linchpin of regionalism in East Asia, is facing a new challenge of great power politics. This article explores ASEAN's position in and strategy for taking cooperative regional initiatives by referring to the management of confrontational politics between rival states. It explains ASEAN's handling of great power politics theoretically by impartial enmeshment for managing great…
Indonesia's response to the Belt and Road Initiative and the Indo‐Pacific
Regional politics surrounding Southeast Asia has exhibited significant developments with China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and counter initiatives through the Indo‐Pacific concept. This article seeks to examine Indonesia's strategic reactions to such regional developments. It argues that Indonesia has exhibited policy responses to the BRI and the Indo‐Pacific concept by hedging against uncertainties created by China's economic prowess throug…
Japan’s Asian Diplomacy
Exploring the China factor in Japan’s foreign and security policy in outer space
In the new millennium, Japan's strategy for outer space has strengthened with growing concerns about North Korea's launching of ballistic missiles and China's enhanced space capabilities. The main aim of this research is to examine Japan's foreign and security policy in outer space and explore strategic implications in relation to China. The article argues that outer space has assumed an increasingly important position in the Japan-US alliance as…
Japan’s strategic response to China’s geo-economic presence
In the new millennium, Japan found a renewed interest in infrastructure investment and engaged in this policy issue with diplomatic initiatives and external partnerships with due attention to China’s geo-economic presence. In formulating strategies for infrastructure investment, Japan has presented and disseminated a specific idea of ‘quality infrastructure’ as a principal component of its external infrastructure push. This article seeks to trace…
High-Standard Rules and Political Leadership in Japan’s Mega-FTA Strategy
This article examines Japan’s trade policy on significant geo-economic developments by focusing on its engagement in three large free trade agreements: the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, and the Japan–EU Economic Partnership Agreement. Under the Abe administration, Japan has produced successful outcomes in mega-FTA strategy, concluding the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partn…
Japan's Asian Diplomacy
Partnership against the rising dragon? Japan’s foreign policy towards India
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has shown a keen interest in his country’s relationship with India with an intention to protect Japan’s stake in maritime affairs under the ‘Indo-Pacific’ concept. In evaluating Japan’s India strategy, a particularly important factor is China’s regional presence. This article, through an analysis of Japan’s India policy during 2013–18, seeks to address the following two questions. First, how has Japan’s India di…
The Indo-Pacific in Japan's strategy towards India
The partnership between Japan and India has steadily deepened since the formation of the second Abe administration. This article, through the analysis of Japan's India strategy, seeks to address how the Indo-Pacific idea has developed and what functions this policy idea has played in the development of Japan's India strategy. This article argues that the Indo-Pacific idea functioned as a linchpin to define goals the two countries would pursue and…
New Dynamics in Sino-Japanese Rivalry
While major arenas of Sino-Japanese struggle are maritime security affairs and political leadership in managing regional affairs, infrastructure development is emerging as a new source of rivalry. Given this new trend, this article highlights rivalry in the provision of regional institutions and programs to sustain infrastructure development and the winning of the Jakarta–Bandung high-speed railway project in Indonesia. It argues that in committi…
Japan’s role conception in multilateral initiatives
This article examines Japan’s role conception in its multilateral commitments to the Asia-Pacific after the global financial crisis in 2008. The Hatoyama government launched an East Asian Community initiative, which aimed to assume a kingmaker role in creating a new order in East Asia. However, the East Asian Community initiative did not develop due to stress on self-reliance and distance from partnership with the USA. The Abe government sought t…
Japan's export of infrastructure systems
This article focuses on the export of infrastructure systems as Japan's foreign economic policy that is unique in terms of diplomatic goals and means. It seeks to address how and why the Japanese government has strengthened commitments to expanding infrastructure exports to major Asian countries. This article argues that the Japanese government took advantage of developmental means of state-led initiative and institutionalised government-business…
Japan's Keidanren and Political Influence on Market Liberalization
Research Article| March 01 1998 Japan's Keidanren and Political Influence on Market Liberalization Hidetaka Yoshimatsu Hidetaka Yoshimatsu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (3): 328–345. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645431 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…
Japan's export of infrastructure systems
This article focuses on the export of infrastructure systems as Japan's foreign economic policy that is unique in terms of diplomatic goals and means. It seeks to address how and why the Japanese government has strengthened commitments to expanding infrastructure exports to major Asian countries. This article argues that the Japanese government took advantage of developmental means of state-led initiative and institutionalised government-business…
New Dynamics in Sino-Japanese Rivalry
While major arenas of Sino-Japanese struggle are maritime security affairs and political leadership in managing regional affairs, infrastructure development is emerging as a new source of rivalry. Given this new trend, this article highlights rivalry in the provision of regional institutions and programs to sustain infrastructure development and the winning of the Jakarta–Bandung high-speed railway project in Indonesia. It argues that in committi…
Preferences, interests, and regional integration
This article examines the development of regional economic integration in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region by highlighting preferences and activities of foreign multinational corporations (MNCs). The main hypothesis of this study is that as foreign MNCs operating in small local markets seek larger markets in order to achieve an efficient production level, they raise their preferences for regional economic arrangements, an…
The politics of Japan's free trade agreement
For a long time, the Japanese government showed awkward and indecisive attitudes towards trade policy. There was strong opposition from the two political actors — bureaucrats at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) — to market opening in the agricultural sector. This article highlights private interests and the public interest of MAFF bureaucrats and LDP politician…
Japan’s strategic response to China’s geo-economic presence
In the new millennium, Japan found a renewed interest in infrastructure investment and engaged in this policy issue with diplomatic initiatives and external partnerships with due attention to China’s geo-economic presence. In formulating strategies for infrastructure investment, Japan has presented and disseminated a specific idea of ‘quality infrastructure’ as a principal component of its external infrastructure push. This article seeks to trace…
The Indo-Pacific in Japan's strategy towards India
The partnership between Japan and India has steadily deepened since the formation of the second Abe administration. This article, through the analysis of Japan's India strategy, seeks to address how the Indo-Pacific idea has developed and what functions this policy idea has played in the development of Japan's India strategy. This article argues that the Indo-Pacific idea functioned as a linchpin to define goals the two countries would pursue and…
The United States, China, and Geopolitics in the Mekong Region
The main objective of this study is to elucidate great power politics in the Mekong region by exploring how China and the United States have committed to the development of Mekong countries and what characteristics are found in the commitments. The argument that this study advances is three-fold. First, China's pragmatic policies and close linkages with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have contributed to raising economic linkag…
Asean and evolving power relations in East Asia
This article seeks to examine constraints and challenges that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) states are confronted with in formulating and implementing their strategies in response to evolving regional environments represented by the rise of China. It argues that China's southern neighbours have adopted purposeful strategies in order to mitigate potentially negative effects from China's growing capabilities in East Asia. These…
The state, MNCs, and the car industry in Asean
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHidetaka YoshimatsuThe author would like to thank Dr. William James for his comments on the draft of this article
Regional cooperation in Northeast Asia
Journal Article Regional cooperation in Northeast Asia: searching for the mode of governance Get access Hidetaka Yoshimatsu Hidetaka Yoshimatsu Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, 1-1 Jumonjibaru, Beppu, Oita, Japan E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Volume 10, Issue 2, May 2010, Pages 247–274, http…
The Mekong Region, Regional Integration, and Political Rivalry among Asean, China and Japan
Although the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, and Japan commonly recognize that development of the Mekong region is indispensable for achieving the smooth promotion of regional integration in East Asia, their approaches to this issue have been diverse and redundant. While ASEAN has exhibited interest in Mekong development since the mid-1990s, its members' commitments have showed significant disparity. The Chinese government …
Regional Integration and Business Interests
This article aims to articulate business representation in the process towards creating a unified market by comparing the regional integration process in Europe in the 1980s and in Southeast Asia in the new millennium. Both the European Community (EC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) adopted the creation of a single market as a feasible strategy to respond to an economic hardship. In this process, US business associations pl…
Political Leadership, Informality, and Regional Integration in East Asia
Since the late 1990s, moves towards regional integration and cooperation have gained momentum in East Asia. The regional countries have expanded and deepened integration initiatives under the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) framework that consists of ASEAN countries, China, Japan and South Korea. What factors have promoted the development of regional integration and economic cooperation in the region? This article addresses this question in terms of colle…
Japan's Keidanren and Free Trade Agreements
This article examines how societal actors' preferences and activities impinge on the evolution of a state's regional economic agreements in light of Keidanren's involvement in Japan's free trade agreements with Singapore, Mexico, and South Korea. The business federation has promoted the agreements by playing the role of a pressure group and information provider
Social demand, state capability and globalization
activities because of their interests in desirable relations with the agricultural groups. Keywords: Japan-CHINA Relations Trade Policy Safeguard Textile Industry Agricultural Sector
Development Assistance, Strategic Interests, and the China Factor in Japan's Role in Asean Integration
In this article, we have examined how Japan has supported ASEAN's economic integration through ODA and other diplomatic measures, and showed how Japan's engagements in ASEAN economic integration evolved over time. In addressing these issues, we took into account the growing influence of China's ascent in Southeast Asia, and assumed that Japan's China policy of mixed ‘accommodation and balance’ became explicit in Japan's ASEAN policy. The pronounc…
The Rise of China and the Vision for an East Asian Community
This article seeks to explore how stable regional order under the possible community formation can be created in East Asia in moves towards China's ascendancy. For this objective, it takes advantage of a framework assuming that the development of an East Asian community would be possible under conditions that the states in the region develop common identity and norms, as well as multilateral institutions that guarantee the long-term interest. Mor…
Asia's odd men out
Australia and Japan have frequently had difficult relationships with their neighbours. This paper suggests that when seen in their specific historical contexts, the fact that Australia and Japan have become ‘Asia's odd men out’ is unsurprising. The central argument of this paper is that the consolidation and institutionalisation of regions is in large part a political exercise that reflects, and is informed by, discrete national conversations. Un…
Asean and Great Power Rivalry in Regionalism
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which serves as the linchpin of regionalism in East Asia, is facing a new challenge of great power politics. This article explores ASEAN's position in and strategy for taking cooperative regional initiatives by referring to the management of confrontational politics between rival states. It explains ASEAN's handling of great power politics theoretically by impartial enmeshment for managing great…
Indonesia's response to the Belt and Road Initiative and the Indo‐Pacific
Regional politics surrounding Southeast Asia has exhibited significant developments with China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and counter initiatives through the Indo‐Pacific concept. This article seeks to examine Indonesia's strategic reactions to such regional developments. It argues that Indonesia has exhibited policy responses to the BRI and the Indo‐Pacific concept by hedging against uncertainties created by China's economic prowess throug…
Political Leaders' Preferences and Trade Policy
This article examines Japan's and South Korea's free trade agreement (FTA) policies in the new millennium, seeking to address the question of why significant differences in FTA commitments emerged by 2010 in the two countries. In addressing the question, it highlights, as an independent variable, executive leaders' policy preferences and concrete actions to realize them. Japanese chief executives had weak preferences for promoting FTAs and thereb…
Domestic Political Institutions, Diplomatic Style and Trade Agreements
Through an analysis of the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs), this article seeks to examine the factors that caused the gap in Japan and China's relationship with Southeast Asia to emerge and expand in the new millennium. In order to address this question, the article focuses on China and Japan's diplomatic styles and domestic political institutions and examines how these two elements influenced negotiations on the formation of FTAs, as w…
Understanding Regulatory Governance in Northeast Asia
After the early 1990s, the wave of regionalism covered broader areas in the world, and Northeast Asia, which had weak regional cohesion largely due to history-oriented animosity, gradually developed initiatives for regional cooperation since the late 1990s. This article seeks to address why and how China, Japan, and South Korea have pursued regional cooperation by relying on the concept of ‘regional governance’. It advances two arguments. First, …
Japan's policy on steel trade disputes with the United States
This article examines interactions among the United States, Japan and the European Union over steel trade disputes with particular interest in Japan's reactions to the disputes. For this objective, this paper establishes an analytical framework that takes into account bilateral, international, and domestic factors in formulating a state's external policy and relations. It was found that the special relationship with the United States still imping…
Examining China and Japan’s Narratives as Diplomatic Tools
In the new millennium, China and Japan have become eager to use narratives and discourses as diplomatic tools to manage external relations and enhance their international profiles. Although these trends have prompted research into the discourses and narratives of China and Japan, previous studies have not fully explored the competitive characteristics of the two states' ideational visions. This article aims to unravel the nature and features of i…
Regimes, International Society, and Regional Cooperation in East Asia
Economic interdependence and the making of trade policy
The central question of this article is how the internationalization of corporate activity has changed the trade policy preferences of Japanese corporations. Using case studies of the automobile and textile industries, the paper tests the hypothesis that as firms strengthen multinational operations, they become more committed to trade liberalization of their home market. Growing multinational operations are one of the major reasons why internatio…
Japan's Keidanren and Political Influence on Market Liberalization
Research Article| March 01 1998 Japan's Keidanren and Political Influence on Market Liberalization Hidetaka Yoshimatsu Hidetaka Yoshimatsu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (3): 328–345. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645431 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sear…
Market Globalization and State Intervention
The state, MNCs, and the car industry in Asean
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHidetaka YoshimatsuThe author would like to thank Dr. William James for his comments on the draft of this article
State-Market relations in East Asia and institution-building in the Asia-Pacific
Trade Policy in Transition? Political Economy of Antidumping in Japan
This article examines antidumping policy and politics in Japan. on detailed analysis of the institutional system regarding antidumping and the filed dumping cases, I explore how evolving trade policy preferences of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) have antidumping policy and politics, and what has altered MITI policy In the 1980s, MITI bureaucrats sought to settle dumping issues by encouraging the industries concerned to ho…
Preferences, interests, and regional integration
This article examines the development of regional economic integration in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region by highlighting preferences and activities of foreign multinational corporations (MNCs). The main hypothesis of this study is that as foreign MNCs operating in small local markets seek larger markets in order to achieve an efficient production level, they raise their preferences for regional economic arrangements, an…
Social demand, state capability and globalization
activities because of their interests in desirable relations with the agricultural groups. Keywords: Japan-CHINA Relations Trade Policy Safeguard Textile Industry Agricultural Sector
Internationalization, Corporate Preferences and Commercial Policy in Japan
Japan and Industrial Adjustment in Asia
he Japanese economy increasingly strengthened linkages with East Asian countries after the late 1980s.1 Major manufacturing firms have established production bases in almost every key East Asian country, and linked them systematically. Such intensive production networks strengthened trade linkages between Japan and East Asia. While the U.S. has been the primary trade partner forJapan, East Asia as a group surpassed the U.S. in trade in 1992 and h…
Japan and East Asia in Transition
Japan and East Asia in Transition
This book examines how Japan has changed its economic relationship with East Asia since the mid 1990s by looking at its commitments to import relief, regional financial and industrial transformations
Japanese policy in the Asian economic crises and the developmental state concept
This article examines Japan’s commitments to the developmental state concept after the Asian economic and currency crises. Some aspects of the concept have been regarded as the causes of the crises, and Japan was seen as failing to defend effectively its own developmental model. However, the Japanese government has strengthened policies and institutions for industrial cooperation toward East Asia after the crises, stressing the elements of the de…
U.S.-East Asian Trade Friction
T he steel industry remains one of the major industrial sectors for Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. Japan became the primary country of steel production in the late 1960s. South Korea followed Japan in the 1980s with the success of Poland Iron and Steel Company (POSCO), which became the world's largest steel producer in 1998. In the 1990s, China developed its steel industry to become the primary producer country of crude steel in 1996. The…
From distrust to mutual interests
Political Leadership, Informality, and Regional Integration in East Asia
Since the late 1990s, moves towards regional integration and cooperation have gained momentum in East Asia. The regional countries have expanded and deepened integration initiatives under the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) framework that consists of ASEAN countries, China, Japan and South Korea. What factors have promoted the development of regional integration and economic cooperation in the region? This article addresses this question in terms of colle…
The State and Industrial Evolution
Japan's Keidanren and Free Trade Agreements
This article examines how societal actors' preferences and activities impinge on the evolution of a state's regional economic agreements in light of Keidanren's involvement in Japan's free trade agreements with Singapore, Mexico, and South Korea. The business federation has promoted the agreements by playing the role of a pressure group and information provider
Asia's odd men out
Australia and Japan have frequently had difficult relationships with their neighbours. This paper suggests that when seen in their specific historical contexts, the fact that Australia and Japan have become ‘Asia's odd men out’ is unsurprising. The central argument of this paper is that the consolidation and institutionalisation of regions is in large part a political exercise that reflects, and is informed by, discrete national conversations. Un…
Collective Action Problems and Regional Integration in Asean
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 28, Number 1, April 2006
The politics of Japan's free trade agreement
For a long time, the Japanese government showed awkward and indecisive attitudes towards trade policy. There was strong opposition from the two political actors — bureaucrats at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) — to market opening in the agricultural sector. This article highlights private interests and the public interest of MAFF bureaucrats and LDP politician…
Global Competition and Technology Standards
This article examines Japan's evolving commitments to technology development and technology diffusion in Asia. It explores Japan's technology strategies in three areas—Internet protocol, open source software, and horology—focusing on the importance of technology standards. The development and diffusion of technology standards has become one of the core elements in establishing industrial competitiveness. The importance of technology standards enc…
Regional Integration and Business Interests
This article aims to articulate business representation in the process towards creating a unified market by comparing the regional integration process in Europe in the 1980s and in Southeast Asia in the new millennium. Both the European Community (EC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) adopted the creation of a single market as a feasible strategy to respond to an economic hardship. In this process, US business associations pl…
Japan's policy on steel trade disputes with the United States
This article examines interactions among the United States, Japan and the European Union over steel trade disputes with particular interest in Japan's reactions to the disputes. For this objective, this paper establishes an analytical framework that takes into account bilateral, international, and domestic factors in formulating a state's external policy and relations. It was found that the special relationship with the United States still imping…
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