SEMINARS

Training and education in international affairs:
Japan, Palestine and the Middle East (1999)

  Required Reading

(according to assignment)

Ash, Toby. “The Recession That Won’t Go Away”, in: Japan and the Middle East, MEED Special Report, Vol. 41, No. 48, 1997.

Ikeda, Akifumi. “Japan’s Relations with Israel”, in: Japan in the Contem­porary Middle East, ed. by Sugihara, K. and J. A. Allan, London: Rout­ledge, 1993, pp. 155-169.

Katakura, Kunio. “Japan and the Middle East: Towards a More Positive Role”, in: The Politics of Middle East Oil, ed. by Paul Tempest, Lon­don: Graham & Trotman, 1993.

Kemp, Peter. “Disturbed by the Length of the Recession”, in: Japan and the Middle East, MEED Special Report, Vol. 39, No. 50, 1995.

Kishino, Hiroyuki. The Persian Gulf Crisis and Japan’s Role, International Institute for Global Peace (HGP) Policy Paper, Tokyo, 1990.

Koyama, Shigeki. “Conditions in the Middle East Today and Japan’s Economic Aid”, in: Ja­pan Review of International Affairs, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1993.

Maswood, S. Javed. “Japan and the Gulf Crisis: Still Searching for a Role”, in: The Pacific Re­view, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1992.

Panda, Rajaram. “Japan and the Gulf Crisis: An Appraisal’”, in: India Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3, 1991, pp. 1-20.

Purrington, Courtney and K., A. Tokyo’s Policy Responses During the Gulf Crisis, The Regents of the University of California, 1991.

Schaede, Ulrike. “Economy”, in: The Far East and Australia 1998 (29^th edition), Europa Publi­cations 1997.

Shaoul, Raquel. “Japan’s New Approach To­ward the Middle East and Its Impact on the Japan-China Balance of Power”.

Recommended Further Reading

Arab Thought Forum and National Institute for Research Advancement: Arab-Japanese Dialogue (2^nd and 3^rd Arab-Japanese Dialogue Confer­ence, Tokyo, 1991 and Amman, 1992). NIRA, 1993.

Ash, Toby. “Japan and the Middle East”, in: MEED, Vol. 41, No. 48, 28 Nov. 1997, pp. 7-15.

Calabrese, John. “Japan in the Middle East”, in: The Pacific Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1990.

Imai, Ryukichi. The Middle East in the Coming Decade: A Japanese Per­spective. IIGP Policy Paper 85E. Tokyo: International Institute for Global Peace, 1992.

 “Japan and the Middle East”, in: JIME Review (Spring 1996), pp. 89-95.

Kemp, Peter. “Japan and the Middle East”, in: MEED, Vol. 39 No. 50 (15 December 1995), pp. 27-40.

Kuragane, Kiyoshi, “Changes in Bilateral Trade Between Japan and the Middle East”, in: JIME Review (Spring 1996), pp. 57-76.

Kuroda, Yasumasa. Japan in a New World Or­der: Contributing to the Arab-Israeli Peace Pro­cess. Nova Science Publishers, 1994.

Lessons from East Asia for the Development of the Middle East in the Era of Peace. Ed. by Y. Yafeh, E. Harari, and E. Ben-Ari, Jerusalem: Harry S. Truman Institute, 1998.

Lincoln, Edward J. (ed.). Japan and the Middle East. Middle East Insti­tute, 1991.

Mallat, Chibli. The Middle East into the 21^st Century: The Japan Lectures and Other Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the Gulf Crisis and Politi­cal Islam. Ithaca, 1998.

Matsumura, Ryuichi. “Japanese Companies Heading for a New Rela­tionship with the Middle East”, in: JIME Review (Winter 1995), pp. 23-38.

Matsumura, Ryuichi. “Japan’s Concern About Future Relations With the Middle East”, in: JIME Review (Summer 1996), pp.73-90.

Mizutani, Makoto. Japan’s Aid Programme and the Middle East”, in: Ja­pan in the Contemporary Middle East, ed. by Kaoru Sugihara, London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 94-124.

Morse, Ronald (ed.). Japan and the Middle East in Alliance Politics. Uni­ver­sity Press of Amer­ica, 1986.

Naramoto Eisuke. “Japan Aligned with the PLO”, in: Japan Quarterly 37, No. 1 (January-March 1990), pp. 19-23.

Nogami, Yoshiji. “Japan’s Middle East Policy in Transition”, in: Japan Review of International Affairs, Vol. 7, No.2 (Spring 1993).

Purrington, Courtney. “Tokyo’s Policy Re­sponses During the Gulf Crisis”, in: Asian Survey, Vol. 30, No. 4, 1991, pp. 307-323.

A Review of Middle Eastern and Energy Affairs, The Japanese Institute of Middle Eastern Econo­mies, various issues.

Sasagawa Masahiro. “Japan and the Palestini­ans”, Journal of Arab Affairs, 3, No. 1 (Spring 1984), pp. 19-34.

Shimizu, Hiroshi. “The Japanese Trade Contact with the Middle East: Les­sons from the Pre-Oil Period”, in: Japan in the Contemporary Middle East, ed. by Kaoru Sugihara, London: Rout­ledge, 1993, pp. 27-53.

Sugihara, Kaoru (ed.). Japan in the Contempo­rary Middle East, London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 1-13.

Tateyama, Ryoji. “Japan and the Middle East Peace Talks”, in: JIME Re­view (Winter 1992/93), pp. 25-28.

Tateyama, Ryoji. “Japan’s Response to the Pal­estinian Problem: Postwar Diplomatic History and Prospects for the Future”, JIME Re­view, no. 15 (Winter 1992), pp. 33-44.

Yamauchi, Masayuki. “Prospects for a Peaceful and Democratic Middle East in the Post-Gulf War Era”, in: Japan Review of International Affairs, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 1992).

Yamazaki, Akira. “Recent History”, in: The Far East and Australia 1998 (29^th edition), Europa Publications, 1997.

Yoshitsu, Michael M.  Caught in the Middle East: Japan’s Diplomacy in Transition. Lex­ington, Mass.: D.C.Health & Co., 1984.

Selected Internet Sources

·         Sites with a lot of information on all aspects of Japan and many links:

An excellent site is the Japan entry at the Library of Congress at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html

Similarly good for general overviews and information are http://jin.jcic.or.jp/ and http://www.ntt.co.jp/japan/index.html and http://www.au.af.mil/own/country/jpintl.html

·         Government sites can be found at:

http://www.sorifu.go.jp/english/index.html (Prime Minister’s Office)

http://www2.nttca.com:8010/infomofa/ (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

http://www.sangiin.go.jp/        

(House of Councilors)

http://www.shugiin.go.jp/index.html  (House of Representatives)

·         On Japan’s relations with the Middle East/Palestinians:

http://www.nira.go.jp/pube/seiken/v08n06.html