The following two articles were published with the support by the Korean Research Foundation Grant. The abstracts are below.
(A) "Economy, Security and Economic Control Law of Japan: An Analysis of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law in 1987 ...
The following two articles were published with the support by the Korean Research Foundation Grant. The abstracts are below.
(A) "Economy, Security and Economic Control Law of Japan: An Analysis of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law in 1987," Studies of Japan, Vol.10(August 2008).
(B) "Japan's Economy and Security, 1945-1954: The Psedu-Cold War Style Trade Control Regime and Domestic Politics," The Korean Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol.29(2009)
: Japan's post-Cold War foreign policy has couple of distinct, but neglected, aspects that deserve careful analysis. They include her growing reliance on negative economic sanctions, positive commitment to the multilateral export control regimes, and unprecedented improvement of its domestic laws. This evolution reveals that Japanese government has acquired stronger legal and administraitve powers than ever before. The existing Japanese political economy of security studies, nevertheless, does not direct much attention to this kind of economy and security issue.
Article (A) deals with the 1987 amendment of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law which introduced the security clause for the first time since the end of the second World War. The Toshiba COCOM violation incident directly led to the amendment of the law for the Nakasone Yasuhiro Cabinet positively responded to the growing pressures from the US government. The amended law newly inserted couple of important security contents in its clause 25, clause 48, clause 69, and, as a result, formed itself as a Cold-War style trade control system. While analyzing Yoshida Cabinet's trade control policy against China, article (B) hightlights how important this issue is, and tries to suggest a different interpretation on the so-called division of politics and economy in Japanese foreign policy studies. The argument here is as follows. First, since the late 1940s, the United States has unsuccessfully introduced the so-called Cold War style trade control unifying economy and security together. Second, however, what emerges there is the pseudo-Cold War trade control regime characterized by division of economy and security. Determinant factors forming the regime are the nonexistence of economic emergency law and related institutional arrangements, the intra-governmental sectionalism regarding the power of economic control, and the strong social antipathy against state control on trade.