安倍政権の対北朝鮮政策:「国難」言説の政治学

Maslow, Sebastian and Mason, Ra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4950-9516 (2024) 安倍政権の対北朝鮮政策:「国難」言説の政治学. Bulletin of Sendai Shirayuri Women's College, 28. pp. 1-25. ISSN 1352-7350

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Abstract

Amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the Abe government dissolved the House of Representatives in September 2017, declaring a ‘national crisis’ and pointing to Japan’s inadequate postwar defence capabilities. Since returning to power in 2012, Abe has pledged to ‘overcome Japan’s post-war system’. To achieve this, he has focused on the North Korean issue to strengthen Japan’s defence capabilities and achieve the conservatives’ long-term goal of revising the pacifist postwar constitution. This paper explains the origins of the narrative linking the ‘North Korean threat’ and ‘national crisis’ discourses and its close relationship with political discourses arguing for the transformation of the postwar Japanese state. It examines the Abe administration's diplomacy towards the Korean Peninsula, focusing on the 'abduction issue' as a major crisis for Japan.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Centre for Japanese Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies
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Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2024 18:35
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2024 01:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/94522
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