Japan's Historical Disputes with Neighboring States: Russian Perspectives [Paperback]

Dmitri V. Streltsov is the head of the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University, and the Leading research fellow, the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2008, he heads the Russian Association of Japanologists and is Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook Japan, Russian Japanology Review and? e-journal Japanese Studies in Russia. His main research field is the domestic politics and diplomacy of contemporary Japan. The author of more than 300 academic works, including eight individual monographs published in Russian including Japan as Green Superpower (MGIMO-University Pb, 2012), Foreign Policy Priorities of Japan in the Asia Pacific (Vostochnaya literatura, 2015),? The System of 1955 (Vostochnaya literatura, 2019) etc. He contributed two chapters and was the coeditor of A History of Russo-Japanese Relations. Over Two Centuries of Cooperation and Competition (Brill, 2019). He also contributed one chapter and was the coeditor of Handbook of Japan-Russia Relations (Amsterdam University Press, 2023).

Preface

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List of Contributors

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Introduction

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Chapter 1: Identity and Historical Memory

Chapter 2: Historical Memory in the Foreign Policy Discourse of Contemporary Japan

Chapter 3: Issues of the Historical Past on the Agenda of Modern JapanChina Relations

Chapter 4: The Japanese Colonial Heritage in Taiwan as a Problem of the Historical Past

Chapter 5: Issues of the Historical Past in Current Relations between Japan and the Countries of the Korean Peninsula

Chapter 6: Apology Diplomacy in Japan's Relations with East Asian Countries

Chapter 7: Mutual Images and ThornylãÈ