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| Author: | Rozman, G. |
| Title: | A chance for a breakthrough in Russo-Japanese relations: will the logic of great power relations prevail? |
| Journal: | Pacific Review
2002 : VOL. 15:3, p. 325-358 |
| Index terms: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS JAPAN RUSSIA POWER POLITICS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Under Mori Yoshiro the Japanese government energetically pursued Russia's new leader, Vladimir Putin. Progress was achieved, as Putin recognized the 1956 treaty in which Moscow pledged to return two islands. From the summer of 2000, however, a backlash could be detected. The architects of the initiative not only failed to make their case to Japanese politicians, but also became the object of two years of attacks, leading to Suzuki Muneo's ouster from the LDP and arrest and to Togo Kazuhiko being fired as ambassador to The Netherlands. Under Koizumi Junichiro Japan lost interest, while the media feasted on the image of foreign policy being hijacked. |
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