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Having briefly examined the emergence of the current Japanese historic bloc, its fracturing from the 1970s onwards, and attempts at repairing these fractures during the same period, the final four chapters of the book bring the analysis firmly into the contemporary era by examining in detail how and to what extent these attempted repairs have impacted upon Japan, East Asia and the wider world. Each chapter looks for evidence that the Japanese state-society complex is reaching out beyond Japanese shores in such a way that it is visibly shaping the regional order in East Asia, and hence the contemporary shape of the post-Cold War world order. In neo-Gramscian terms, this involves an inquiry into whether or not the Japanese state-society complex has the potential to achieve hegemony over East Asia using material capabilities, institutions and ideas as instruments both of coercion and of consensus.
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For details, see R. Manglapus, Japan in Southeast Asia (New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1976). It should be noted that the riots, particularly in Indonesia, were in part a response to domestic issues also.
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Kelly, D. (2002). Mapping Japan’s Role in East Asia: Production. In: Japan and the Reconstruction of East Asia. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403905307_5
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