...Terutomo Ozawa The Economic Development of the Pacific Basin: Growth Dynamics, Track Relations, and Emerging Cooperation . By Willy Kraus and Wilfried Lütkenhorst . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1986 . x, 180 pp. $32.50. Trilateralism in Asia: Problems and Prospects in U.S...

...Baldwin Ranson Japan, NAFTA and Europe. Trilateral Cooperation or Confrontation . Edited by T. David Mason and Abdul M. Turay . New York : St Martin's Press , 1994 . xvii, 241 pp. $45.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 563...

... Press , 1983 . xv, 231 pp. Tables, Index. N.p. The Financial Development of India, Japan, and the United States: A Trilateral Institutional, Statistical, and Analytic Comparison . By Raymond W. Goldsmith . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1983 . xiv, 120 pp. Charts, Index. N.p...

... Identity Clash ends with policy proposals for how to reinvigorate trilateralism, which is now encouraged by the US government. Several steps have been taken in that direction. Foreign ministers from the three countries have met on a regular basis, as have lower-level officials, and a trilateral steering...

... Associations, and the Liberal Democratic Party. This powerful trilateral coalition spearheaded the passage of the 1961 Agricultural Basic Law whose primary goal was to make agricultural income levels equal to those in other industries. Farm household income was raised by increasing the prices of some...

... of an agricultural lobby consisting of the farmers, the Agricultural Collective Associations, and the Liberal Democratic Party. This powerful trilateral coalition spearheaded the passage of the 1961 Agricultural Basic Law whose primary goal was to make agricultural income levels equal to those in other industries...

... relationships that have been established in the tourism, biomedical, and medical care areas as more genuinely cooperative. Assuming that U.S. president Barack Obama's initiative for warmer ties with the Castro government moves forward, they are optimistic that a trilateral relationship is possible. José...

... to the histories of not only this war, but also of modern Sino-Japanese relations and late Meiji Japan. ROBERT JOHN PERRINS York University Japan, NAFTA and Europe. Trilateral Cooperation or Confrontation! Edited by T. D A V I D M A S O N and A B D U L M. T U R A Y . New York: St Martin's Press, 1994. xvii, 241 pp...

... in this volume, a trilateral formula is opposed by Seoul and Washington. A quadrilateral conference including Moscow and Tokyo is apparently not supported by Pyongyang. Nobody, of course, opposes the remaining option: bilateral talks between the two Koreas. Could the two regimes make sufficient progress...

... Bank's Commission on International Development headed by Lester B. Pearson, a member of the Trilateral Commission, has represented Japan at the OECD, and has been invited by various governments including China, India, and Indonesia to advise on their development problems. I bring out Okita's background...

... it to something approaching superpower status, it is logical to consider how Japan's ascendance will influence what for long has been considered a trilateral club. Although Japan's military power is not yet in the league of the United States, the USSR, or the PRC, its economic clout clearly is, and its major...

..., Colo.: Westview Press, 1987. xii. 239 pp. $33.50. As Japan's economic prowess has propelled it to something approaching superpower status, it is logical to consider how Japan's ascendance will influence what for long has been considered a trilateral club. Although Japan's military power is not yet...

... of the Pacific Basin: Growth Dynamics, Track Relations, and Emerging Cooperation. By WILLY KRAUS and WlLFRlED LUTKENHORST. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. x, 180 pp. $32.50. Trilateralism in Asia: Problems and Prospects in U.S.-Japan-ASEAN Relations. Edited by K. S. N A T H A N and M. PATHMANATHAN. Kuala...

... East Asia Japan reconciliation South Korea transitional justice trilateralism war memory Since the ratification of the 1965 Treaty of Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea (hereafter South Korea), both nations have engaged broadly in bilateral trade, student exchanges...

... in highlighting the interconnections among them. There are quite a few books in Japanese on the trilateral aspects as well as the bilateral Japan-China relationship, but they are not accessible to most non-Japanese scholars. Another great merit of the book is several chapters written by Chinese scholars...

... of the latter issue is nothing short of masterful. She carefully traces the convoluted trilateral diplomatic maneuvers that ensued following the Chinese invasion; the callousness of the great powers when it came to the plight of Tibet; and the tangled bureaucratic politics that shaped India's timorous...

... treasury, and prey to communism. Cut off from prewar markets and raw material supplies, their 1945 collapse might mean a 1948 implosion. Thus, a new, trilateral system evolved, with three poles the U.S., Japan, and Europe leading to remarkable consonance in the evolution of American policies for Japan...

... treats in considerable detail both the trilateral negotiations among the British, Burmans, and the minorities in the immediate postwar period and the efforts to institutionalize, within the new constitution of independent Burma, provisions to assure the well-being and continuity of the minority cultures...

...," "Rethinking the Relationship: 1986-1993"; "Beyond the Cold War"; and "Regional Security and the Future of the Trilateral Relationship." The first part details the problematic history of bilateral relations and the origins of the dispute and adds some personal reflections of the authors. Russia's image...

... by these institutions and that will undoubtedly have important consequences in the future. A second such theme that emerges is Japan's role in the encouragement of a trilateralization of development policy with the U.S. overseeing the Western Hemisphere, the European Community as the dominant voice in Eastern Europe...