CONTENTS
ArticlesPrime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro and Korean Peninsula Diplomacy:
Initiative for Strategic Japan-South Korea Cooperation
NISHINO, Junya…（
Professor of Political Science1）

Correlation between Songun Politics and Nuclear Program of North Korea
ISOZAKI, Atsuhito…（ 25）Associate Professor of North Korean Studies

Postwar Japanese-South Korean Relations and the Issue of Regime Type inJapanese Foreign Policy Making: 1961-1987
NOBORI, Amiko…（ 73）Lecturer (part-time) of Japanese Diplomatic History

The U.S. Decision to Rearm Japan, July-September 1950
YOSHIDA, Shingo…（103）Associate Professor of Japanese Diplomatic History

Kindai University

Commencing ODA to China: Transformation of the Cold War Structureand Sino-Japan Relations
OKAIDO, Keiko…（129）Former Deputy Executive Secretary

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

The Possibility of “Middlepower Coopeartion” between Japan and Australia
SATAKE, Tomohiko…（163）Senior Fellow

National Institute for Defense Studies

Networked International Relations: Japanese Public Diplomacy from theMeiji Restoration to the Digital Era
UEDA, Makiko…（187）Research Assistant of Intellectual History

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

Reconsidering Japan’s Southeast Asia Policy during the Ikeda Hayato
Administration
SUZUKI, Hironao…（219）Professor of International Politics

Shizuoka University

The Nixon Administration’s Decision Making Process of “Lam Son 719” andits Failure, 1970-1971
TEGA, Yusuke…（249）Associate Professor of American Diplomatic History

Nishogakusha University

Moon Jae-in Administration’s Peace Process on the Korean Peninsula andJapan-North Korea Relations
LEE, Kitae…（275）
Director of Peace Research Division

Korea Institute for National Unification

Abe’s Legacy Politics and Realism of Japanese Diplomacy
HWANG, Sehee…（297）
Director of Future PlanningFuture Consensus Institute

Energy Resources and Japanese Diplomacy: Through the Transformationof Fossil Fuel Policy
IKEGAMI, Mana…（317）Part-time Lecturer of Political ScienceRissho University

The Origin of Postwar Japanese Diplomacy toward Republic of Korea andHistorical Issues: Revival of Colonial Rulers and Its Legacy
PARK, Kyung-Min…（343）Research Professor of Japan-Korea Relationship, Political History of East Asia

Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University

The Eisenhower Administration’s Decision-making Process for theRelocation of the U.S. Marine Corps from Mainland Japan to Okinawa
IKEMIYAGI, Yoko…（369）Postdoctoral Fellow of Japanese Diplomation History

Seikei University

The Japan-Korea Relationship in the 1960’s: The Japan-Korea Normalization
Talk and the Reversion of Okinawa
YOON, Sukjung…
（399）
Research Professor of Japan-Korea Relationship, Japanese Diplomacy

Center for Japanese Studies, IFANS, KNDA

Revisiting Miki Takeo’s Initiative to Bridge the Gap between Washington
and Pyongyang: In the Context of Japanese Domestic Politics after theKidnapping Incident of Kim Dae-jung
ISHIDA, Tomonori…（425）Research Fellow

National Institute for Defense Studies

Japan and the Origin of ASEAN Centrality
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ISHIHARA, Yusuke…（496）
Senior Researcher

National Institute for Defense Studies