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Bridging Two Asias

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In 2006, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Asō Tarō outlined an expansion of Japan’s foreign policy across Asia to emphasize its values-based diplomacy in what he called the “Arc of Freedom and Prosperity.” Since reemerging as Prime Minister in 2012, Abe Shinzō has also repeatedly evoked Japan’s values-based approach to diplomacy across Asia. This chapter lays out the puzzle of how Japan’s values-based diplomacy across an Asia inclusive of Muslim societies reconciles with its urge to securitize Islam. This chapter considers how Japan and Muslim societies alike fit into the evolving Japanese notion of Asia.

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Notes

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    Some conceptualization of Asia in the pan-Asianist standpoint persisted, but was largely constrained to far-right and far-left scholars such as Tsukui Tatsuō and Takeuchi Yoshimi, respectively (Szpilman and Saaler 2011, 20–22).

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    This list is by no means exhaustive: others can include a peninsula, island, isthmus, lake, gulf, et cetera.

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    Also known as “topophilia” (Tuan 1974).

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Barber, B.B. (2020). Bridging Two Asias. In: Japan's Relations with Muslim Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34280-7_1

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