The Manichaean Worldview : Japanese Foreign Policy and the Danger of Dualistic Interpretations of International Affairs.
Journal: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)
Year: 2014

This paper examines the approach of the Japanese government to international crises in Libya, Syria, Gaza and the Ukraine and contends that Japanese assessment of the situations involved, has been overly simplistic, adhering to a Manichaean view which frames conflict into clearly defined good and evil camps, with the former invariably being the side supported by the USA. In actuality, each of these events was far more complex and less clearly delineable than the view put forth both by mainstream