This article contributes to the relational IR literature on identity politics and Sino‐Japanese
relations. Theoretically, we develop Rumelili's framework for studying modes of …

This paper joins the debate on Japan's territorial dispute with South Korea over the
Dokdo/Takeshima islets. Informed by the ontological security framework of analysis, this …

The territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over four islands off the northeast coast of
Hokkaidō has been an enduring obstacle to closer relations between the two powers and …

Grounded in extensive empirical research, Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East
Asian Maritime Politics addresses the major issues of geopolitics in the region that have …

In this article, I explore a little known aspect of British and Japanese history that began not
long after Japan open its ports to the west in the middle of the nineteenth century. It is about …

Russia does not play a signifi cant part in the contemporary debate about the future of
Northeast Asia as it relates to “rising China” and “East Asian regionalism.” While Moscow's …

Книга посвящена политике Японии по отношению к России в переломную для нее эпоху
1985-2001 гг. Анализируются дискуссии и действия японской правящей элиты и …

Today, Japan has territorial disputes with all of its neighbors. In the case of the disputes over
South Kuriles/Northern Territories and Dokdo/Takeshima, Japan seeks return of a territory …

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, a boom of museums focused on the Ainu cultural
subject has emerged in both Russia and Japan. By conceptualizing museums as nonneutral …

The dominating and often contradicting tendencies of the early post-war Hokkaido were the
continuing otherness, foreignness and distinctiveness from the rest of Japan, and the …