Ryoko Nakano
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryoko Nakano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryoko |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakano |
| SIGNATURE | NAKANO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kanazawa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9747-1743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Japan and the liberal international order: Rules-Based, Multilateral, Inclusive and Localized
This article examines Japan's security and foreign policy as an example of how a major power engages in the liberal international order (LIO) and what this implies for the future of that order. Facing China's increased power and influence in the past two decades, Japan has made strategic adjustments in response to regional and global power transitions while developing an idea of a wider geopolitical landscape on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's initia…
A Geocultural Power Competition in Unesco’s Silk Roads Project: China’s Initiatives and the Responses From Japan and South Korea
Since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, China has increasingly engaged in UNESCO’s Silk Roads project. China’s emphasis on its western routes signals its strategic interest in the reconstruction of its historical connections that matches China’s global networking in Eurasia, the Middle East, and Europe. However, whether China will successfully reformulate the international visions of the past, present, a…
Mobilizing Meiji Nostalgia and Intentional Forgetting in Japan's World Heritage Promotion
The language of shared heritage for humanity holds a central position within UNESCO's World Heritage. However, the “Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution” as World Heritage is primarily Japan's national project for globalizing a glorious historical narrative of Meiji Japan. While this national nostalgia matches the contemporary political discourse of overcoming domestic and international challenges in twenty-first century Japan, it also en…
Introduction: Mobilizing nostalgia in Asia
What is the role of nostalgia in our increasingly dynamic and interconnected world? This special issue, Mobilizing Nostalgia in Asia , assesses the mobilization of nostalgia in the changing international order, and within individuated socioeconomic and cultural spheres. Its four articles examine the political and social dynamics that evoke, utilize, amend, and manipulate nostalgia for collective present needs and demands. This Introduction connec…
The Unesco memory of the world programme: Key aspects and recent developments
The UNESCO memory of the world programme: key aspects and recent developments." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26(7), pp. 717–718
Heritage as soft power: Japan and China in international politics
The recent development of heritage industries and national heritage promotions in non-Western countries opens a new space for international cooperation and competition in ways that directly link to the power-political relations between states. What motivates these countries to accelerate their efforts to promote their cultural heritage internationally? Are such dynamics different from how cultural heritage is constructed and used in Western count…
Japan’s demands for reforms of Unesco’s Memory of the World: The search for mnemonical security
This study focuses on the policy response of the Abe government (2012–present) to UNESCO’s inscription of the ‘Documents of Nanjing Massacre’ to argue that the historical revisionists’ perspective is central to the thinking of Japan’s UNESCO diplomacy. The UNESCO’s inscription heightened a sense of shame from the viewpoint of Japanese historical revisionists, leading the Japanese government to the unprecedented step of using its economic power to…
Determinants of energy savings in Indonesia: The case of LED lighting in Bogor
The Politics of Norm Glocalisation: Limits in Applying r2p to Protecting Children
Two-thirds of the global child population lives in countries affected by violent and high-intensity conflict. International humanitarian law provides broad protection for children in the event of armed conflict. However, as the 2017 report of the un Secretary-General on children and armed conflict stresses, the scale and severity of grave violations has increased. This paper addresses the central puzzle of why the existing legal and normative fra…
The Wilsonian moment in Yanaihara Tadao's political thought
Albeit with little reference to Woodrow Wilson, Yanaihara Tadao, the Chair of Colonial Policy at Tokyo Imperial University in the 1920s and 1930s, and a pious Christian, adapted the core ideas of Wilsonian liberalism such as national self-determination, multilateralism, and democracy to the political and legal framework of imperial Japan. Yanaihara advocated the principle of autonomy for the Japanese empire to transform itself into the core of a …
A failure of global documentary heritage? Unesco's ‘memory of the world’ and heritage dissonance in East Asia
UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' Programme promotes the preservation, universal access and public awareness of the world's significant documents as the common heritage of all humankind. The inscription of the 'Documents of Nanjing Massacre' into the 'Memory of the World' Register in 2015 reflects an increasingly globalised concern in the post–Cold War era over the remembrance of war and atrocity. Yet it has reignited the tension between Japan and C…
The Sino–Japanese territorial dispute and threat perception in power transition
A territorial dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands has gained a high profile in Sino–Japanese relations. Since the 2012 escalation of the territorial dispute, there is no sign of any de-escalation despite economic interdependence, which previously helped ease the tension. Drawing on the constructivist understanding of threat perception and power transition theory, this article analyzes the way in which the deepening of threat perceptions assoc…
Between Self-Esteem and Self-Respect: Vulnerability in Japanese Foreign Policy
When one reads international relations (IR) books and journals discussing Japanese foreign policy, it is noticeable that many authors focus on the vulnerability of the state against external (and sometimes internal) threats. Realist and liberal scholars in traditional security studies use classical approaches of IR which rely upon rational choice theories of strategic calculation and the limitation of the scope of security measures to a specific …
Development and Dependency
In the nineteenth century, modernization and industrialization in colonies occurred side by side with the increase of dependency relationships. By utilizing their military forces, political and legal codes, and trade and investment, European imperial powers extended their control over lands and the people outside the national territories. For better or worse, imperial authorities had a direct influence on the material and psychological conditions…
Beyond the Western Liberal Order: Yanaihara Tadao and Empire as Society
This book introduces the political thought of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961), the most prominent Japanese social scientist working on empire, population migration and colonial policy, and uses it as a pl
Global Norm Diffusion in East Asia: How China and Japan Implement the Responsibility to Protect
This article addresses the problem of global norm diffusion in international relations with particular reference to the implementation of 'the responsibility to protect' (R2P) in East Asia. Exposing the limits of previous work on norm localization, we develop the framework of the norm diffusion loop. Rather than understanding norm diffusion as a linear top-down process, we demonstrate that the reception of R2P has evolved in a far more dynamic wa…
Pre-History' of International Relations in Japan: Yanaihara Tadao's Dual Perspective of Empire
This article seeks to locate the work and contribution of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961) within a distinct tradition of International Relations in Japan. It challenges the conventional view that Japanese International Relations originates in the US academic discipline. Yanaihara's view of empire was influenced by two academic traditions in Japan: the Staatslehre and Marxism, and by his humanist, moral view derived from a Christian faith. According t…
Uncovering Shokumin: Yanaihara Tadao’s Concept of Global Civil Society
This article develops the argument that Yanaihara Tadao (1893–1961), a Japanese social scientist at Tokyo Imperial University, embraced the concept of global civil society in which culturally distinct groups would voluntarily cooperate for the benefit of the whole. This important aspect of his work is much less explored than his critique of Japanese colonial policy in Taiwan and Korea. In the period of imperial Japan, Yanaihara reinterpreted the …
The Sino–Japanese territorial dispute and threat perception in power transition
A territorial dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands has gained a high profile in Sino–Japanese relations. Since the 2012 escalation of the territorial dispute, there is no sign of any de-escalation despite economic interdependence, which previously helped ease the tension. Drawing on the constructivist understanding of threat perception and power transition theory, this article analyzes the way in which the deepening of threat perceptions assoc…
Global Norm Diffusion in East Asia: How China and Japan Implement the Responsibility to Protect
This article addresses the problem of global norm diffusion in international relations with particular reference to the implementation of 'the responsibility to protect' (R2P) in East Asia. Exposing the limits of previous work on norm localization, we develop the framework of the norm diffusion loop. Rather than understanding norm diffusion as a linear top-down process, we demonstrate that the reception of R2P has evolved in a far more dynamic wa…
Heritage as soft power: Japan and China in international politics
The recent development of heritage industries and national heritage promotions in non-Western countries opens a new space for international cooperation and competition in ways that directly link to the power-political relations between states. What motivates these countries to accelerate their efforts to promote their cultural heritage internationally? Are such dynamics different from how cultural heritage is constructed and used in Western count…
A failure of global documentary heritage? Unesco's ‘memory of the world’ and heritage dissonance in East Asia
UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' Programme promotes the preservation, universal access and public awareness of the world's significant documents as the common heritage of all humankind. The inscription of the 'Documents of Nanjing Massacre' into the 'Memory of the World' Register in 2015 reflects an increasingly globalised concern in the post–Cold War era over the remembrance of war and atrocity. Yet it has reignited the tension between Japan and C…
Japan’s demands for reforms of Unesco’s Memory of the World: The search for mnemonical security
This study focuses on the policy response of the Abe government (2012–present) to UNESCO’s inscription of the ‘Documents of Nanjing Massacre’ to argue that the historical revisionists’ perspective is central to the thinking of Japan’s UNESCO diplomacy. The UNESCO’s inscription heightened a sense of shame from the viewpoint of Japanese historical revisionists, leading the Japanese government to the unprecedented step of using its economic power to…
Japan and the liberal international order: Rules-Based, Multilateral, Inclusive and Localized
This article examines Japan's security and foreign policy as an example of how a major power engages in the liberal international order (LIO) and what this implies for the future of that order. Facing China's increased power and influence in the past two decades, Japan has made strategic adjustments in response to regional and global power transitions while developing an idea of a wider geopolitical landscape on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's initia…
The Unesco memory of the world programme: Key aspects and recent developments
The UNESCO memory of the world programme: key aspects and recent developments." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26(7), pp. 717–718
The Politics of Norm Glocalisation: Limits in Applying r2p to Protecting Children
Two-thirds of the global child population lives in countries affected by violent and high-intensity conflict. International humanitarian law provides broad protection for children in the event of armed conflict. However, as the 2017 report of the un Secretary-General on children and armed conflict stresses, the scale and severity of grave violations has increased. This paper addresses the central puzzle of why the existing legal and normative fra…
A Geocultural Power Competition in Unesco’s Silk Roads Project: China’s Initiatives and the Responses From Japan and South Korea
Since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, China has increasingly engaged in UNESCO’s Silk Roads project. China’s emphasis on its western routes signals its strategic interest in the reconstruction of its historical connections that matches China’s global networking in Eurasia, the Middle East, and Europe. However, whether China will successfully reformulate the international visions of the past, present, a…
The Wilsonian moment in Yanaihara Tadao's political thought
Albeit with little reference to Woodrow Wilson, Yanaihara Tadao, the Chair of Colonial Policy at Tokyo Imperial University in the 1920s and 1930s, and a pious Christian, adapted the core ideas of Wilsonian liberalism such as national self-determination, multilateralism, and democracy to the political and legal framework of imperial Japan. Yanaihara advocated the principle of autonomy for the Japanese empire to transform itself into the core of a …
Pre-History' of International Relations in Japan: Yanaihara Tadao's Dual Perspective of Empire
This article seeks to locate the work and contribution of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961) within a distinct tradition of International Relations in Japan. It challenges the conventional view that Japanese International Relations originates in the US academic discipline. Yanaihara's view of empire was influenced by two academic traditions in Japan: the Staatslehre and Marxism, and by his humanist, moral view derived from a Christian faith. According t…
Uncovering Shokumin: Yanaihara Tadao’s Concept of Global Civil Society
This article develops the argument that Yanaihara Tadao (1893–1961), a Japanese social scientist at Tokyo Imperial University, embraced the concept of global civil society in which culturally distinct groups would voluntarily cooperate for the benefit of the whole. This important aspect of his work is much less explored than his critique of Japanese colonial policy in Taiwan and Korea. In the period of imperial Japan, Yanaihara reinterpreted the …
Pre-History' of International Relations in Japan: Yanaihara Tadao's Dual Perspective of Empire
This article seeks to locate the work and contribution of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961) within a distinct tradition of International Relations in Japan. It challenges the conventional view that Japanese International Relations originates in the US academic discipline. Yanaihara's view of empire was influenced by two academic traditions in Japan: the Staatslehre and Marxism, and by his humanist, moral view derived from a Christian faith. According t…
Global Norm Diffusion in East Asia: How China and Japan Implement the Responsibility to Protect
This article addresses the problem of global norm diffusion in international relations with particular reference to the implementation of 'the responsibility to protect' (R2P) in East Asia. Exposing the limits of previous work on norm localization, we develop the framework of the norm diffusion loop. Rather than understanding norm diffusion as a linear top-down process, we demonstrate that the reception of R2P has evolved in a far more dynamic wa…
Between Self-Esteem and Self-Respect: Vulnerability in Japanese Foreign Policy
When one reads international relations (IR) books and journals discussing Japanese foreign policy, it is noticeable that many authors focus on the vulnerability of the state against external (and sometimes internal) threats. Realist and liberal scholars in traditional security studies use classical approaches of IR which rely upon rational choice theories of strategic calculation and the limitation of the scope of security measures to a specific …
Development and Dependency
In the nineteenth century, modernization and industrialization in colonies occurred side by side with the increase of dependency relationships. By utilizing their military forces, political and legal codes, and trade and investment, European imperial powers extended their control over lands and the people outside the national territories. For better or worse, imperial authorities had a direct influence on the material and psychological conditions…
Beyond the Western Liberal Order: Yanaihara Tadao and Empire as Society
This book introduces the political thought of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961), the most prominent Japanese social scientist working on empire, population migration and colonial policy, and uses it as a pl
The Sino–Japanese territorial dispute and threat perception in power transition
A territorial dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands has gained a high profile in Sino–Japanese relations. Since the 2012 escalation of the territorial dispute, there is no sign of any de-escalation despite economic interdependence, which previously helped ease the tension. Drawing on the constructivist understanding of threat perception and power transition theory, this article analyzes the way in which the deepening of threat perceptions assoc…
Determinants of energy savings in Indonesia: The case of LED lighting in Bogor
The Politics of Norm Glocalisation: Limits in Applying r2p to Protecting Children
Two-thirds of the global child population lives in countries affected by violent and high-intensity conflict. International humanitarian law provides broad protection for children in the event of armed conflict. However, as the 2017 report of the un Secretary-General on children and armed conflict stresses, the scale and severity of grave violations has increased. This paper addresses the central puzzle of why the existing legal and normative fra…
The Wilsonian moment in Yanaihara Tadao's political thought
Albeit with little reference to Woodrow Wilson, Yanaihara Tadao, the Chair of Colonial Policy at Tokyo Imperial University in the 1920s and 1930s, and a pious Christian, adapted the core ideas of Wilsonian liberalism such as national self-determination, multilateralism, and democracy to the political and legal framework of imperial Japan. Yanaihara advocated the principle of autonomy for the Japanese empire to transform itself into the core of a …
A failure of global documentary heritage? Unesco's ‘memory of the world’ and heritage dissonance in East Asia
UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' Programme promotes the preservation, universal access and public awareness of the world's significant documents as the common heritage of all humankind. The inscription of the 'Documents of Nanjing Massacre' into the 'Memory of the World' Register in 2015 reflects an increasingly globalised concern in the post–Cold War era over the remembrance of war and atrocity. Yet it has reignited the tension between Japan and C…
The Unesco memory of the world programme: Key aspects and recent developments
The UNESCO memory of the world programme: key aspects and recent developments." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26(7), pp. 717–718
Heritage as soft power: Japan and China in international politics
The recent development of heritage industries and national heritage promotions in non-Western countries opens a new space for international cooperation and competition in ways that directly link to the power-political relations between states. What motivates these countries to accelerate their efforts to promote their cultural heritage internationally? Are such dynamics different from how cultural heritage is constructed and used in Western count…
Japan’s demands for reforms of Unesco’s Memory of the World: The search for mnemonical security
This study focuses on the policy response of the Abe government (2012–present) to UNESCO’s inscription of the ‘Documents of Nanjing Massacre’ to argue that the historical revisionists’ perspective is central to the thinking of Japan’s UNESCO diplomacy. The UNESCO’s inscription heightened a sense of shame from the viewpoint of Japanese historical revisionists, leading the Japanese government to the unprecedented step of using its economic power to…
Mobilizing Meiji Nostalgia and Intentional Forgetting in Japan's World Heritage Promotion
The language of shared heritage for humanity holds a central position within UNESCO's World Heritage. However, the “Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution” as World Heritage is primarily Japan's national project for globalizing a glorious historical narrative of Meiji Japan. While this national nostalgia matches the contemporary political discourse of overcoming domestic and international challenges in twenty-first century Japan, it also en…
Introduction: Mobilizing nostalgia in Asia
What is the role of nostalgia in our increasingly dynamic and interconnected world? This special issue, Mobilizing Nostalgia in Asia , assesses the mobilization of nostalgia in the changing international order, and within individuated socioeconomic and cultural spheres. Its four articles examine the political and social dynamics that evoke, utilize, amend, and manipulate nostalgia for collective present needs and demands. This Introduction connec…
A Geocultural Power Competition in Unesco’s Silk Roads Project: China’s Initiatives and the Responses From Japan and South Korea
Since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, China has increasingly engaged in UNESCO’s Silk Roads project. China’s emphasis on its western routes signals its strategic interest in the reconstruction of its historical connections that matches China’s global networking in Eurasia, the Middle East, and Europe. However, whether China will successfully reformulate the international visions of the past, present, a…
Japan and the liberal international order: Rules-Based, Multilateral, Inclusive and Localized
This article examines Japan's security and foreign policy as an example of how a major power engages in the liberal international order (LIO) and what this implies for the future of that order. Facing China's increased power and influence in the past two decades, Japan has made strategic adjustments in response to regional and global power transitions while developing an idea of a wider geopolitical landscape on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's initia…
Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · China (5 works)