Japan’s Central Asia Policy Revisited

This article focuses on the nature of Japan’s foreign policy formulation and legitimization through a study of its interaction with Central Asian countries. The article examines foreign policy discourse that constructs Japan’s “self” vis-à-vis Central Asian “other.” It reveals the textual mechanism through which reality, objects, and subjects are constructed, and it interprets the official statements contained in several foreign policy initiatives, in particular, the “Eurasian (Silk Road) Diplomacy,” the “Central Asia plus Japan,” and the “Arc of Freedom and Prosperity,” as an attempt to understand the intersubjective knowledge and analytical lens through which Japanese foreign policy makers conceive and interpret the constructed “reality,” produce foreign policy choices, and choose among identified alternatives

Central asia · Diplomacy · Economics · Economy · Foreign policy · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Sociology · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Japanese History and Culture · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law

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