Japan’s Foreign Policy in a Time of Shifting Geopolitical Goalposts
a Conversation with Prof. Kiichi Fujiwara, professor of International Politics at the University of Tokyo and Director of the Security Studies Unit at the Policy Alternatives Research Institute
In this video professor Kiichi Fujiwara joins UNU Senior Policy Adviser John de Boer for a conversation exploring the position of the Abe administration in the emerging power relations in East Asia, and unraveling the contradictions that lie beneath the many policy goals that Mr. Abe has promised to achieve.
Three years have passed since Mr. Shinzo Abe became the prime minister of Japan. Attitudes toward this administration are divided into two extreme poles, with little ground in between. What, then, is new under Abe’s leadership? How is Japan’s current foreign policy different than that of its previous administrations, and why?
Professor Fujiwara studied as a Fulbright student at Yale University before he returned to Japan to work with the Institute of Social Science (ISS). He has held positions at the University of the Philippines, The Johns Hopkins University, the University of Bristol, and was selected as a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington D.C.
Professor Fujiwara is one of Japan’s most kinetic and impressive actors on the international stage. His works include Remembering the War, 2001; A Democratic Empire, 2002; Is There Really a Just War? 2003; Peace for Realists, 2004 (winner of the 2005 Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Journalism Award), revised edition published in 2010; America in Film, 2006; International Politics, 2007; War Unleashed, 2007; That’s a Movie!, 2012; and Conditions of War, 2013.
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