Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1017/s1468109923000191
Tomohito Baji
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Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1017/s146810992300021x
Kei Hiruta
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Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1017/s1468109923000221
R. Yamaoka
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1017/s1468109923000269
Muhui Zhang
In the wake of the intensifying Sino–Japanese rivalry in Asia, a new third-party market cooperation (TPMC) framework emerged in late 2018. The new mechanism was inaugurated around the time of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Beijing, displaying new attempts at Sino–Japanese economic diplomacy. Nonetheless, this article highlights the absence of major cooperative outcomes and suggests a pessimistic vision of TPMC's future, as three pairs of politico-economic gaps have led to asymmetries in the approaches adopted by China and Japan. First, a government-to-government policy asymmetry occurred between China's initiatives and Japan's responsiveness, as the latter merely utilized the TPMC as a temporary diplomatic tool to restore bilateral relations in late 2018 and appeared to have lost its policy momentum in the following years. Second, asymmetries in business modes and investment management between the two countries' enterprises have led to technical barriers in materializing the two governments' agreements into specific TPMC business collaboration. This study illustrated a project of Sino–Japanese collaboration in building a high-speed railway in Thailand, and saw this failed case as a warning for existing gaps of commercial modes. Third, both countries are now confronted with domestic underdeveloped public–private partnerships between state and private sectors. This article also aims to provide some policy-oriented implications for steadily implementing the Sino–Japanese TPMC in the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1017/s1468109923000178
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1017/s1468109923000166
The Japanese Journal of Political Science is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original theoretical and empirically tested political science research. Manuscripts across the full range of sub-fields and research methodologies are welcome for consideration. We are open to single country or comparative studies, and particularly encourage those manuscripts that draw on interdisciplinary approaches to political science questions.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1017/s1468109923000154
Sunhee Park
Transition from war to peace often leads to new challenges. Conflict scholars suggest that these challenges lead groups to be unable to commit credibly and suggest mechanisms for decreasing the fear of being the victim, and increasing the costs, of reneging. However, international law and international political economy scholars debate the utility of making agreements flexible. This paper argues that provisions intended to increase the flexibility of agreements are detrimental to implementation because they operate under the assumption that groups are in a repeated game, and because they can lead to an even more severe commitment problem. Using a newly collected dataset on civil war cease-fire agreements, duration analyses suggest agreements with more flexibility-enhancing provisions exhibit a higher likelihood of violations. Although provisions calling for third-party enforcement – a mechanism for reducing fear and increasing costs – seem to decrease the likelihood of violations, this effect disappears when flexibility-enhancing provisions are considered.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1017/s1468109923000142
Norma Caroline
{"title":"Fumika Sato, The Conundrum of the Female Soldiers, Tokyo, Keio University Press, 2022.","authors":"Norma Caroline","doi":"10.1017/s1468109923000142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1468109923000142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44381,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47535671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1017/S1468109923000130
Kazunori Inamasu, Shoko Kohama, N. Mifune, Y. Ohtsubo, Atsushi Tago
Abstract This study examines the relationship between ideology and resistance to the government's apology to Asian victims of Japan's colonial rule policy, which varies according to political knowledge. Based on existing research, because only a limited percentage of voters consider politics to be ideology based, it is expected that the association between ideology and resistance to intergroup apologies by one's own government differs according to their level of political knowledge. We selected three issues of political apologies: colonial rule in Asian countries, comfort women, and the massacre of Korean people based on false rumors at the time of the 1923 Kanto Earthquake; thereafter, we conducted an online survey of a panel selected by Nikkei Research Inc. The results suggest that the relationship between ideology and resistance among voters to political apologies varies with the level of political knowledge, as expected. On the contrary, social dominance orientations (SDO) were associated with resistance to apology, regardless of their level of political knowledge. We then tested the reproducibility of this finding by conducting a follow-up test on registered users of a crowdsourcing service after conducting a preregistration. In addition, we also measured general attitudes toward personal apologies and neighboring countries victimized by Japan's colonialist policies as factors that might predict resistance to apologies even among the politically uninformed. The association between ideology, SDO, and resistance to governmental apologies was generally replicated in this study.
摘要本研究考察了意识形态与抵制日本政府向亚洲殖民统治受害者道歉的关系,这种关系因政治知识的不同而不同。根据现有的研究,由于只有有限比例的选民认为政治是基于意识形态的,因此可以预期,意识形态与本国政府对群体间道歉的抵制之间的联系会因其政治知识水平的不同而不同。我们选择了3个政治道歉议题:亚洲国家的殖民统治、慰安妇问题、关东大地震时基于虚假谣言的屠杀朝鲜人问题;之后,我们对日经研究公司(Nikkei Research Inc.)挑选的一个小组进行了一次在线调查。结果表明,意识形态与选民对政治道歉的抵制之间的关系随着政治知识水平的变化而变化,正如预期的那样。相反,无论政治知识水平如何,社会支配取向(SDO)与道歉抵抗相关。然后,我们通过在进行预注册后对众包服务的注册用户进行后续测试来测试这一发现的可重复性。此外,我们还测量了对个人道歉和受日本殖民主义政策伤害的邻国的普遍态度,作为可能预测即使在政治上不知情的人中也会抵制道歉的因素。意识形态、SDO和对政府道歉的抵制之间的联系在本研究中得到了普遍的重复。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s1468109923000117
The Japanese Journal of Political Science is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original theoretical and empirically tested political science research. Manuscripts across the full range of sub-fields and research methodologies are welcome for consideration. We are open to single country or comparative studies, and particularly encourage those manuscripts that draw on interdisciplinary approaches to political science questions.
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