Japan’s International Relations at the Crossroads

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Reviewing submitted manuscripts is a pleasure in two senses to me: one can get to know wide-ranging subject matters and knowledge frontiers and to learn how some key criteria are balanced in recommendation. Having started three journals, of which I am editor-in-chief, my debts to those who invited me to the board of International Organization and Journal of Japanese Studies cannot be more emphasized. Those journals founded by myself as editor-in-chief are: Japanese Journal of Political Science (Cambridge University Press), International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (Oxford University Press), and Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (Sage Publications).

Not to be forgotten is the project on the Dialectic of World Order, together with the late Hayward R. Alker, the late Tahir Amin, and Ijaz Gilani. The 40-year-long project will hopefully bear fruit, led by Thomas Biersteker. Some of my peers, like the late Russell Hardin, the late David Held, Michael Leigh, and Karel Kovanda, and mentors, like the late Lucian Pye, the late Ithiel de Sola Pool, and Nazli Choucri at M.I.T., deserve special mention here.

At Peter Lang publishing, Farideh Koohi-Kamali, executive vice-president, played a decisive role in publishing two books, one on Japan’s International Relations and the other on Japanese Politics. At J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, the late Toyoshi Sato gave me an ideal environment to pursue my intellectual curiosity. Mr. Masayuki Yamagishi facilitated to arrange my work space at the university, and Masae Toyoizumi and Cai Yi miraculously carried out the beautiful reconfiguration of a bundle of my articles and book chapters with precision and grace.

I am most grateful for permission granted by the following publishers and journals:

Chapter 1: Takashi Inoguchi, “Japan’s International Relations: A Brief History,” in Takashi Inoguchi, ed., Kokusai kankei Readings (Readings in International Relations), Tokyo: Toyo shorin, 2004, pp. 1–22, by permission of Toyo shorin publishing.

Chapter 2: “Awed, Inspired, and Disillusioned: Japanese Scholarship on American Politics,” in Richard Samuels and Myron Weiner, eds., The Political Culture of Foreign Area and International Studies, 1992, Brassey’s, pp. 57–74, by permission granted by one of the coeditors, Richard Samuels.

Chapter 3: Takashi Inoguchi, “World Order Debates in the Twentieth Century: Through the Eyes of the Two-level Game and the Second Image (Reversed),” Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2010, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 155–188, by permission of Oxford University Press.

Chapter 4: Takashi Inoguchi, “Peering into the Future by Looking Back: The Westphalian, Philadelphian, and Anti-Utopian Paradigms,” International Studies Review, 1999, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 173–191, by permission of Oxford University Press.

Chapter 5: Takashi Inoguchi, “Four Japanese scenarios for the future,” International Affairs, 1988, Volume 65, Issue 1, pp. 15–28, by permission of Oxford University Press.

Chapter 6: Takashi Inoguchi, “Japanese Ideas of Asian Regionalism,” Japanese Journal of Political Science, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2011, pp. 233–249, reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press.

Chapter 7: Takashi Inoguchi, “A Call for a New Japanese Foreign Policy: the Dilemmas of a Stakeholder State,” International Affairs, 2014, Volume 90, Issue 4, pp. 943–958, by permission of Oxford University Press.

Chapter 8: Takashi Inoguchi, “Japanese Foreign Policy as an ‘Asian’ country,” in Peng Er Lam and Purnendra Jain, eds., Japanese Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change, Washington D.C.: Lexington Books, 2020, pp. 57–72. Permission granted by Lexington Books, all rights reserved.

Chapter 9: Takashi Inoguchi, and Paul Bacon, “The Study of International Relations in Japan: Towards a More International Discipline,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2001, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 1–20, by permission of Oxford University Press.

Chapter 10: Takashi. Inoguchi, “Are There Any Theories of International Relations in Japan?” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2007, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp. 369–390, by permission of Oxford University Press.

My long journey in rain or sun has been always accompanied by Kuniko Y. Inoguchi, an academic turned practitioner (Japan’s ambassador to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament, state minister on gender equality and social affairs, and a parliamentarian in the Japanese Diet), who has admirably raised two daughters, Ayako and Sayako. My fortunate encounter with her has been my luckiest thing and furthermore brought me two daughters and so many joys in my journey. The book is dedicated to Kuniko, Ayako, and Sayako.