総合政策学部

総合政策学部教授 服部龍二著書の英訳が刊行されました

2022年01月18日

総合政策学部教授 服部龍二(はっとり りゅうじ)著書の英訳が刊行されましたのでご案内いたします。

China-Japan Rapprochement and the United States: In the Wake of Nixon’s Visit to Beijing

 

同書は『日中国交正常化――田中角栄、大平正芳、官僚たちの挑戦』(中公新書、2011年)です。

同書は『중국과 일본의 악수──1972년 국교정상화의 진실』서울역락, 2017)として韓国語にも訳されています。

 

内容紹介

Based on extensive original research including interviews with key participants, this book examines how, following Richard Nixon’s famous visit to China in 1972, Japan established formal diplomatic relations with China, doing so before the United States and other Western countries. It considers the key personalities – Prime Minister Tanaka and Foreign Minister Ōhira on the Japanese side, and Zhou Enlai on the Chinese side, outlines how the discussions unfolded, and discusses the key issues which divided the two sides and how these issues were resolved: Japanese war reparations to China, how the two countries perceived their past, how Taiwan should be treated, and possession of the Senkaku Islands. The book also shows how Tanaka and Ōhira sought to reconcile China–Japan relations with the US–Japan Security Treaty and to continue non-governmental exchanges with Taiwan following the severing of relations. Overall, the book emphasises that the nature of the relationship established in 1972 continues to be very important for understanding present day China–Japan relations.