Toshihiko Kawasaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 751277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toshihiko Kawasaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toshihiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Kawasaki |
| SIGNATURE | KAWASAKI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0939-2261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hayato Ikeda and the Origin of Japan–Europe Strategic Partnership
During his European tour of 1962, Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda took the bold initiative to establish a strategic partnership with Europe. By seeking Japan’s membership in the European-centred Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, he intended to strengthen Japan–Europe relations, which he considered a weak link in the Western camp against the Soviet Union’s wedge-striking tactics. This political initiative was deeply rooted in his…
Anzenhoshō to bōeiryoku no sengoshi, 1971-2010: ‘Kibanteki bōeiryoku kōsō’ no jidai (Unintended Consensus: A History of Postwar Japan’s Defense Concept)
Studies of diplomatic history related to postwar Japanese security policy are flourishing. Historians have reconstructed the process of policy-making in detail, often challenging conventional wisdom. This scholarly movement is propelled by the expansion of accessible primary sources, thanks not only to the steady opening of government papers and hitherto inaccessible private documents in archival libraries, but also to a series of oral history pr…
Canada as a peninsula state: Conceptualizing the emerging geopolitical landscape in the 21st century
An unprecedented geopolitical landscape, driven by the reduction of Arctic ice and the rise of China as “a Polar power,” is emerging. What does this mean for Canada, and how should Canada respond to it in a systematic and strategic manner? We need a coherent and holistic conceptual framework to answer these key policy questions. Yet, the current literatures do not offer us such a concept. In an attempt to fill the void, this article presents a vi…
Where does Canada fit in the US–China strategic competition across the Pacific
Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has enjoyed twin hegemonies, one in the East Asian littoral and the other in the North America continent. But China is now using assertive measures to undermine US maritime supremacy in East Asia. Beijing is also resorting to espionage and cyber attacks against US domestic targets. In short, the United States and China are engaging in strategic competition encompassing these two theatres. W…
The Invention and Reception of the Mino'odera engi
In this article, I attend to the creative processes involved both in the writing and the reception of jisha engi, through the example of a twelfth century Shugendo engi called Mino'odera engi. First, I examine how the Mino'odera engi contributed decisively to the hagiographic evolution of En no Gyja, the seventh-century figure whom Shugendo practitioners chose as their founder. Then I focus on the way in which this text was used and received, bot…
Strangers No Longer: The Identity Shift in the Canada-Japan Relationship
The prime ministers recognize that the bilateral partnership of trust and friendship fostered over the years between the peoples of Canada and Japan, founded on such shared basic values as democracy, freedom, and promotion of the market economy remains solid, but... still has a potential yet to be realized.1Where has Japan gone in the Canadian psyche? Nowadays, the talk that we hear about Asia is mostly about China. CBC news has a China bureau in…
Japan Rising: The resurgence of Japanese power and purpose
This is a book about Japanese grand strategy. Its author, Kenneth B. Pyle, is one of the authoritative voices on Japan in the United States – a history professor and the founding president of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBAR), a major US think-tank on Asia. The book is addressed primarily to the policy community of the United States. It offers a timely contribution on Japan when China attracts the vast majority of policy circles' atten…
Layering Institutions: The Logic of Japan’s Institutional Strategy for Regional Security
Compared with earlier periods, one feature stands out in Japan’s post—cold war security policy: to an unprecedented extent, the island state has woven itself into a web of new Asia-Pacific security institutions.1 This situation is in sharp contrast especially to the cold war period, when the bilateral alliance with the United States was practically the only security institution with which Japan involved itself. Far from being the “reactive state”…
Neither skepticism nor romanticism: The Asean Regional Forum as a solution for the Asia-Pacific Assurance Game
This article fills the void left by the existing literature that has failed to capture the utilities of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) to the member states. From a rational institutionalist perspective, this article argues that the ARF is an institutional solution for a particular type of collective-action problem – the Assurance Game – that emerged in the post-Cold War Asia-Pacific region. In the Assurance Game, a weak and loose institution is s…
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally transformed its position on the world stage. It established itself in the vanguard of the burgeoning cold war bulwark against the Soviet Union and its communist satellites, and wed itself to the United States through economic, political, and security ties that persist today. T…
Postclassical realism and Japanese security policy
The recent domestic constructivist studies characterize Japanese security policy as a serious anomaly to realism and a crucial case vindicating their approach to the larger study of world politics. The present paper challenges this view. It advances a postclassical realist interpretation of Japan's core security policy in the past quarter century. Japan's military doctrine expressed in the 1976 National Defense Program Outline (NDPO) is consisten…
Postclassical realism and Japanese security policy
The recent domestic constructivist studies characterize Japanese security policy as a serious anomaly to realism and a crucial case vindicating their approach to the larger study of world politics. The present paper challenges this view. It advances a postclassical realist interpretation of Japan's core security policy in the past quarter century. Japan's military doctrine expressed in the 1976 National Defense Program Outline (NDPO) is consisten…
Between realism and idealism in Japanese security policy: The case of the Asean regional forum
While ASEAN played the leadership role for erecting the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), Japan generated positive impact on the historical trajectory leading to the birth of the ARF. This paper asks the following question: On what ideational foundation was Japan's support for the ARF based? Utilizing a conceptual framework based on the theoretical literature of multilateralism, the paper analyzes three major Japanese perspectives on the ARF in the inc…
Japan's Foreign Policy in the 1990s: From Economic Superpower to What Power
Japanese Economic Policies and Growth: Implications for Business in Canada and North America
Pressing Japan for fiscal expansion: Lessons from the late 1970s
(1993). Pressing Japan for fiscal expansion: Lessons from the late 1970s. The Pacific Review: Vol. 6, Challenges for the NIEs, pp. 365-374
Policy Ideas and Change in Japanese Bureaucratic Politics: The Ministry of Finance in International Monetary Crisis, 1969–1971
Under what conditions do dominant policy ideas change in Japanese bureaucratic organizations? The answer is developed in reference to a rare empirical case in which critical information has been released about intra-bureaucracy politics, the Japanese Ministry of Finance during the 1969–1971 international monetary crisis. The paper contends, first, that the crisis did not automatically lead to a change of a dominant policy idea prevalent in the Mi…
Japan Challenges America: Managing an Alliance in Crisis
A History of Japanese Literature
Marvell's "Bermudas"--A Little World, or A New World
Japan Rising: The resurgence of Japanese power and purpose
This is a book about Japanese grand strategy. Its author, Kenneth B. Pyle, is one of the authoritative voices on Japan in the United States – a history professor and the founding president of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBAR), a major US think-tank on Asia. The book is addressed primarily to the policy community of the United States. It offers a timely contribution on Japan when China attracts the vast majority of policy circles' atten…
Between realism and idealism in Japanese security policy: The case of the Asean regional forum
While ASEAN played the leadership role for erecting the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), Japan generated positive impact on the historical trajectory leading to the birth of the ARF. This paper asks the following question: On what ideational foundation was Japan's support for the ARF based? Utilizing a conceptual framework based on the theoretical literature of multilateralism, the paper analyzes three major Japanese perspectives on the ARF in the inc…
Neither skepticism nor romanticism: The Asean Regional Forum as a solution for the Asia-Pacific Assurance Game
This article fills the void left by the existing literature that has failed to capture the utilities of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) to the member states. From a rational institutionalist perspective, this article argues that the ARF is an institutional solution for a particular type of collective-action problem – the Assurance Game – that emerged in the post-Cold War Asia-Pacific region. In the Assurance Game, a weak and loose institution is s…
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally transformed its position on the world stage. It established itself in the vanguard of the burgeoning cold war bulwark against the Soviet Union and its communist satellites, and wed itself to the United States through economic, political, and security ties that persist today. T…
Policy Ideas and Change in Japanese Bureaucratic Politics: The Ministry of Finance in International Monetary Crisis, 1969–1971
Under what conditions do dominant policy ideas change in Japanese bureaucratic organizations? The answer is developed in reference to a rare empirical case in which critical information has been released about intra-bureaucracy politics, the Japanese Ministry of Finance during the 1969–1971 international monetary crisis. The paper contends, first, that the crisis did not automatically lead to a change of a dominant policy idea prevalent in the Mi…
Marvell's "Bermudas"--A Little World, or A New World
A History of Japanese Literature
Japan Challenges America: Managing an Alliance in Crisis
Pressing Japan for fiscal expansion: Lessons from the late 1970s
(1993). Pressing Japan for fiscal expansion: Lessons from the late 1970s. The Pacific Review: Vol. 6, Challenges for the NIEs, pp. 365-374
Policy Ideas and Change in Japanese Bureaucratic Politics: The Ministry of Finance in International Monetary Crisis, 1969–1971
Under what conditions do dominant policy ideas change in Japanese bureaucratic organizations? The answer is developed in reference to a rare empirical case in which critical information has been released about intra-bureaucracy politics, the Japanese Ministry of Finance during the 1969–1971 international monetary crisis. The paper contends, first, that the crisis did not automatically lead to a change of a dominant policy idea prevalent in the Mi…
Japanese Economic Policies and Growth: Implications for Business in Canada and North America
Between realism and idealism in Japanese security policy: The case of the Asean regional forum
While ASEAN played the leadership role for erecting the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), Japan generated positive impact on the historical trajectory leading to the birth of the ARF. This paper asks the following question: On what ideational foundation was Japan's support for the ARF based? Utilizing a conceptual framework based on the theoretical literature of multilateralism, the paper analyzes three major Japanese perspectives on the ARF in the inc…
Japan's Foreign Policy in the 1990s: From Economic Superpower to What Power
Postclassical realism and Japanese security policy
The recent domestic constructivist studies characterize Japanese security policy as a serious anomaly to realism and a crucial case vindicating their approach to the larger study of world politics. The present paper challenges this view. It advances a postclassical realist interpretation of Japan's core security policy in the past quarter century. Japan's military doctrine expressed in the 1976 National Defense Program Outline (NDPO) is consisten…
Postclassical realism and Japanese security policy
The recent domestic constructivist studies characterize Japanese security policy as a serious anomaly to realism and a crucial case vindicating their approach to the larger study of world politics. The present paper challenges this view. It advances a postclassical realist interpretation of Japan's core security policy in the past quarter century. Japan's military doctrine expressed in the 1976 National Defense Program Outline (NDPO) is consisten…
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally transformed its position on the world stage. It established itself in the vanguard of the burgeoning cold war bulwark against the Soviet Union and its communist satellites, and wed itself to the United States through economic, political, and security ties that persist today. T…
Neither skepticism nor romanticism: The Asean Regional Forum as a solution for the Asia-Pacific Assurance Game
This article fills the void left by the existing literature that has failed to capture the utilities of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) to the member states. From a rational institutionalist perspective, this article argues that the ARF is an institutional solution for a particular type of collective-action problem – the Assurance Game – that emerged in the post-Cold War Asia-Pacific region. In the Assurance Game, a weak and loose institution is s…
Layering Institutions: The Logic of Japan’s Institutional Strategy for Regional Security
Compared with earlier periods, one feature stands out in Japan’s post—cold war security policy: to an unprecedented extent, the island state has woven itself into a web of new Asia-Pacific security institutions.1 This situation is in sharp contrast especially to the cold war period, when the bilateral alliance with the United States was practically the only security institution with which Japan involved itself. Far from being the “reactive state”…
Japan Rising: The resurgence of Japanese power and purpose
This is a book about Japanese grand strategy. Its author, Kenneth B. Pyle, is one of the authoritative voices on Japan in the United States – a history professor and the founding president of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBAR), a major US think-tank on Asia. The book is addressed primarily to the policy community of the United States. It offers a timely contribution on Japan when China attracts the vast majority of policy circles' atten…
Strangers No Longer: The Identity Shift in the Canada-Japan Relationship
The prime ministers recognize that the bilateral partnership of trust and friendship fostered over the years between the peoples of Canada and Japan, founded on such shared basic values as democracy, freedom, and promotion of the market economy remains solid, but... still has a potential yet to be realized.1Where has Japan gone in the Canadian psyche? Nowadays, the talk that we hear about Asia is mostly about China. CBC news has a China bureau in…
The Invention and Reception of the Mino'odera engi
In this article, I attend to the creative processes involved both in the writing and the reception of jisha engi, through the example of a twelfth century Shugendo engi called Mino'odera engi. First, I examine how the Mino'odera engi contributed decisively to the hagiographic evolution of En no Gyja, the seventh-century figure whom Shugendo practitioners chose as their founder. Then I focus on the way in which this text was used and received, bot…
Where does Canada fit in the US–China strategic competition across the Pacific
Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has enjoyed twin hegemonies, one in the East Asian littoral and the other in the North America continent. But China is now using assertive measures to undermine US maritime supremacy in East Asia. Beijing is also resorting to espionage and cyber attacks against US domestic targets. In short, the United States and China are engaging in strategic competition encompassing these two theatres. W…
Canada as a peninsula state: Conceptualizing the emerging geopolitical landscape in the 21st century
An unprecedented geopolitical landscape, driven by the reduction of Arctic ice and the rise of China as “a Polar power,” is emerging. What does this mean for Canada, and how should Canada respond to it in a systematic and strategic manner? We need a coherent and holistic conceptual framework to answer these key policy questions. Yet, the current literatures do not offer us such a concept. In an attempt to fill the void, this article presents a vi…
Anzenhoshō to bōeiryoku no sengoshi, 1971-2010: ‘Kibanteki bōeiryoku kōsō’ no jidai (Unintended Consensus: A History of Postwar Japan’s Defense Concept)
Studies of diplomatic history related to postwar Japanese security policy are flourishing. Historians have reconstructed the process of policy-making in detail, often challenging conventional wisdom. This scholarly movement is propelled by the expansion of accessible primary sources, thanks not only to the steady opening of government papers and hitherto inaccessible private documents in archival libraries, but also to a series of oral history pr…
Hayato Ikeda and the Origin of Japan–Europe Strategic Partnership
During his European tour of 1962, Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda took the bold initiative to establish a strategic partnership with Europe. By seeking Japan’s membership in the European-centred Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, he intended to strengthen Japan–Europe relations, which he considered a weak link in the Western camp against the Soviet Union’s wedge-striking tactics. This political initiative was deeply rooted in his…
Political science (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China (5 works) · History (5 works)