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Abe Shinzo and the U.S.-Japan Relationship in a Global Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Herbert P. Bix
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Victory for Abe Shinzo and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in two consecutive general elections opened the way for Japan to move closer to the policies of the United States and, at the same time, throw off some of the restraints imposed by the postwar peace constitution and the San Francisco Treaty system.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 17 , April 2014 , e1
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Copyright © The Authors 2014

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1 Takeshi Yamawaki, “Armitage: Rebuilding Japanese Economy is most important task facing Abe Administration,” The Asahi Shimbun, July 27, 2013; George Nishiyama, “Abe Visit to Controversial Japanese Shrine draws Rare U.S. Criticism,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 26, 2013.

2 Kwanwoo Jun, “South Korea Denounced Japan's Renewed Claim on Disputed Liancourt Rocks,” The Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2014.

3 Gavan Mcormack, “Much Ado over Small Islands: The Sino-Japanese Confrontation over Senkaku/Diaoyu,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 21, No. 3, May 27, 2013.

4 Hirai Yoshiaki, “Betonamu kara ‘taito suru Chugoku' o miru,” Sekai (Sept. 2013), pp. 264-5.

5 Tokyo shimbun, “Inose chiji jishoku: Senkaku kifu, teian no Inose to chiji taijou shiozuke 14 okuen”.

6 Shannon Tiezzi, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Japan's Ukraine Dilemma,” The Diplomat, March 8, 2014.

7 Stephen F. Cohen, “Distorting Russia: How the American media misrepresent Putin, Sochi and Ukraine,” The Nation, March 3, 2014.

8 Thierry Meyssan, “Ukraine: Poland Trained Putchists Two Months in Advance,” Information Clearing House, April 21, 2014.

9 See Anton Woronczuk's interview of Professors Alexandr Buzgalin and John Quigley, “What Role Has Russia Played in Eastern Ukraine?” The Real News.com, April 18, 2014.

10 Reuters, “US sends paratroopers to Nato ally Lithuania amid jitters over Russia,” The Guardian.

11 Herbert P. Bix, “The Russo-Georgia War and the Challenge to American Global Dominance,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (Oct. 2008).

12 Japan sanctioned Russia by halting negotiations on reducing visa regulations and collaborative projects on the use of orbital space.

13 Giorgio Caflero and Daniel Wagner, “How China Benefits From the Ukraine Crisis,” The Huffington Post, April 1, 2014.

14 James Petras, “Remaking the Middle East: The American Gulag,” April 21, 2014, unpublished paper.

15 See here.

16 Here and Dapo Akande, “Philippines Initiates Arbitration Against China over South China Seas Dispute,” European Journal of Internationa Law, Jan. 22, 2013.

17 Asia Sentinel, “US nears defense pact with Philippines,” April 4, 2014/

18 “China explains why it rejects UN arbitration,” The Philippines Star, April 20, 2014, posted here.

19 See here.

20 Jason Ditz, “Japan Sends Troops to Island, Risking China Tensions,” antiwar.com, April 18, 2014.

21 Lucy Craft, “Japan's State Secrets Law: Hailed by U.S., Denounced by Japanese,” NPR, Dec. 31, 2013.

Also see Lawrence Repeta, “Japan's 2013 State Secrecy Act——The Abe Administration's Threat to News Reporting,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 10, No. 1, March 10, 2014. Additionally: here and here.

22 See here.

23 See here.

24 Shunsuke Hirose, “Shinzo Abe's Biggest Enemy: the LDP,” The Diplomat.com, April 14, 2014.

25 See the critique of the Japan Lawyers Association for Freedom (Jiyu hosodan), August 2012.

26 Toshihiro Okuyama, “U.S. alarmed about plutonium stockpile growing from Rokkasho plant.”

27 “Editorial: New basic energy plan offers no convincing vision for Japan's future,” Asahi shimbun, April 12, 2014; Watanabe Osamu Abe, Seiken no kaiken, kozo kaukaku shinsenryaku (Junposha, 2013).

28 Koide Riko, “Critical New Stage in Japan's Textbook Controversy,” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Vol. 12, Issue 13, No. 1, March 31, 2014.

29 Textbook issues have been treated at length in several Japan Focus articles. See Yoshiko Nozaki and Mark Selden, “Japanese Textbook Controversies, Nationalism, and Historical Memory: Intra-and Intern-national Conflicts,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Matthew Penney, “Why on earth is something as important as this not in the textbooks?” Teaching Supplements, Student Essays, and History Education in Japan,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.

30 For detailed discussion see here.

31 Jon Mitchell, “Okinawa——The Pentagon's Toxic Junk Heap of the Pacific,” The Asia- Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Vol. 11, Issue 47, No. 6, Nov. 25, 2013.

32 Jon Mitchell, “Military Contamination on Okinawa: PCSs and Agent Orange at Kadena Air Base,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Vol. 12, Issue No. 1, March 24, 2014/

33 John Reed, “Surrounded: How the U.S. Is Encircling China with Military Bases,” Foreign Policy, Aug. 20, 2013.

34 Takashi Mochizuki, “Most Japanese Support Change to Postwar Charter,” Wall Street Journal, citing Nikkei and Mainichi Shimbun polls released on Japan's Constitutional Memorial Day.