Description: This work gives a complete overview of Japanese foreign policy and Japan-Sout East Asian relations and will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese foreign policy, asian studies and international relations.
Review Quotes: "This is the most comprehensive study of the evolution of Japanese- ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) relations in the post-Cold War period...This work is a valuable addition to the study of Japan's foreign policy in the new world economic order. Recommended at all levels.
-M. Itoh, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for "CHOICE, November 2002."
"Undoubtedly, this book gives the most comprehensive and balanced tretment of Japan's contemporary relations with Southeast Asia to date. There are no other book-length works on this area except Wolf Mendl's edited work, "Japan and South East Asia.."
-"Journal of Japenese Studies, Lam Peng Er