...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...

... 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...

... 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 group has been established. This is a promising development...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., and the coveted US-Japan-South Korea trilateral alliance would be little more than a pipedream. In 2018, President Moon Jae-in fulfilled his promise to revisit the 2015 agreement and improve relations with North Korea, both of which further strained Japan-South Korea relations. Reconciliation allows for relations...

... 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...

... 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...

... should the Korean problem be solved? As noted 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...

... 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 with excellent access to Chinese elite thinking and fairly independent thinking of their own...

...," "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...