The Pacific War and Japan's Diplomacy in Asia

Focusing on the significance of the Greater East Asia policies promoted by Prime Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru during World War II—including the issues of approving independence for Burma and the Philippines as well as the liberation of French Indochina—Prof. Hatano Sumio sheds light on the formation and evolution of Japan’s diplomacy in Asia. He then goes on to verify the meaning of what was held to be Japan’s war aim—liberation of the people of Asia—and its impact on policies.

HATANO Sumio
Professor Hatano Sumio (b. 1947) is director-general of the Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR) at the National Archives of Japan. He is head of the editorial committee of the Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is also a professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba with a specialization in Japanese political and diplomatic history. After obtaining his doctorate degree from Keio University Graduate School of Law, he became a research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS). At the University of Tsukuba, he held the posts of professor, vice-president, and head of the library. He has also held other academic posts, including as a researcher at Harvard University.

His other works include volumes on Pearl Harbor (Asahi Shimbunsha); the Japanese nation and history (Chuokoron-Shinsha); the history of the US-Japan Security Treaty (Iwanami Shoten); and Prime Minister Suzuki Kantarō (Iwanami Gendaizensho). In addition, he was co-editor of a six-volume series on Japanese diplomacy (Iwanami Shoten) as well as a book on the Second Sino-Japanese War (Chuokoron-Shinsha), among others. His edited volume Nihon gaikō no 150-nen (The Society for Promotion of Japanese Diplomacy) is available in English as One Hundred Fifty Years of Japanese Foreign Relations.

*information as of time of publication

JIIA series
Political Science

Publisher:
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Hardcover
¥3,000 + tax
ISBN 9784866581286
210 mm x 148 mm / 434 pp. / March 2021

eBook
ISBN 9784866582115 (ePub)
ISBN 9784866582177 (PDF)

CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Opening of War against the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands and a Plan to End the War / 2. Political Battle over Advance into West Asia / 3. Construction of the Greater East Asia and the Ministry of Greater East Asia / 4. Evolution of the New China Policy / 5. “Independence” of Burma and the Philippines / 6. Outlines for the Political Guidance of Greater East Asia and the Japan-China Alliance Treaty / 7. Greater East Asia Conference and Joint Declaration / 8. Repercussions of the Greater East Asia Declaration / 9. Foreign Minister Shigemitsu and Greater East Asia Diplomacy: Indonesia and French Indochina / 10. Shigemitsu Mamoru and Wartime Diplomacy
Afterword
Index

重光外相のもとで推進された大東亜新政策や仏印解放など、占領地の処遇という問題を重視しながらアジア外交の形成と展開を明らかにし、日本の戦争目的とされた「民族解放」が政策的にどのような意味をもっていたかを検証する。

波多野 澄雄
1947（昭和47）年岐阜県生まれ。72年慶應義塾大学法学部政治学科卒業。79年同大学大学院法学研究科博士課程修了、博士(法学)。筑波大学社会科学系助教授を経て、同教授。2009年より外務省「日本外交文書」編纂委員長、12年より筑波大学名誉教授。14年より国立公文書館アジア歴史資料館センター長．専攻・日本政治外交史 。著書 『幕僚たちの真珠湾』（朝日選書、1991年／吉川弘文館，2013年）第21回吉田茂賞受賞 『太平洋戦争とアジア外交』（東京大学出版会、1996年）第26回吉田茂賞受賞 『国家と歴史』（中公新書、2011年） 『宰相 鈴木貫太郎の決断』（岩波現代全書、2015年）他多数 編著 『日本の外交』全6巻（岩波書店、2013年）、共著 T. Hasegawa ed., The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals (Stanford U. P., 2007)。

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