Burying the Hatchet? The Sources and Limits of Japan-South Korea Security Cooperation<sup>1</sup>

Lee, Sheryn

doi:10.1080/14799855.2013.795547

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“…Another explanation focuses on ideational factors. As Kim (1995: 76) notes, the bilateral relationship is a clash of nationalisms, and Lee (2013: 94) suggests that ideational elements are at the root of a difficult relationship, and mutual misgivings fuel negative dynamics. Sakaki and Nishino (2018: 1) capture the dynamics from the Japanese perspective well, arguing that ‘the negative trajectory of political relations since 2011 has reinforced Japanese perceptions of South Korea as not only difficult but an unreliable partner in regional security affairs’.…”

Section: The Enigma Of Japan–south Korea Relationsmentioning

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It takes two to Tango: the difficult Japan–South Korea relations as clash of realities

Tamaki

2019

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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Why do Japan–South Korea relations remain tense despite repeated efforts to overcome the past? Elite narratives in Japan and South Korea reify the bilateral relationship as a difficult problem. For the Japanese policy elites, the difficulty is due to South Korean unwillingness to embrace a future-oriented relationship; whereas for the South Korean policy elites, the source of the problem is the unwillingness of the Japanese to sincerely address past wrong-doing. The result is a self-fulfilling prophecy of an intractable mutual misapprehension, suggesting that the difficult relationship is here to stay. I analyse pronouncements by both the Japanese and South Korean policy elites appearing in official documents and media reports for clues into the manner in which the bilateral relationship is reified into a difficulty purportedly due to the recalcitrance of the neighbour. The narratives consistently show that both the Japanese and South Korean policy elites consider the onus of improvement lies with the troublesome/insincere neighbour. In short, the bilateral relationship is a clash of realities, with the logical conclusion being that the difficult relationship will persist for the foreseeable future.

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It takes two to Tango: the difficult Japan–South Korea relations as clash of realities

Tamaki

2019

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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“…The relationship between Japan and South Korea has consistently been presented by scholars of International Relations (IR) as a puzzle that confounds the expectations of mainstream rationalist theory (see, among others, Cha, 1999;Jackson, 2018;Ku, 2016;Lee, 2013;Park, 2008). Specifically, it is deemed confounding that, in the realist case, two regional allies of the United States (US) who supposedly share common security threats and, in the liberal case, two liberal democracies with strong trade and cultural relations have such a poor bilateral relationship.…”

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(Re)producing the ‘history problem’: memory, identity and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute

Deacon

2021

The Pacific Review

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Japan-South Korea relations have consistently been presented by International Relations scholars as a puzzle that confounds mainstream rationalist theories, which struggle to explain the consistent acrimony associated with the so-called 'history problem'. While many scholars have, therefore, adopted conventional constructivist approaches to incorporate history into their analyses, such literature often neglects the processes of (re)construction of this social reality, thereby implicitly treating these negative sentiments as essentialised elements of Korean and Japanese culture/identity which cause certain foreign policies. Using the recent Japan-South Korea trade dispute as a case study, this article instead draws on critical constructivist/poststructuralist theory and discourse analytical methods to examine how the 'history problem' is produced and reproduced. It argues that dominant discourses of remembering in South Korea, which represent Japan as an unrepentant colonial aggressor, and of forgetting in Japan, which represent South Korea as emotional and irrational for dwelling on the past, act to (re)produce identities that clash in their attitudes to difficult history. While such foreign policy practices (re)produce dominant national identities, these identities also shape the bounds of which foreign policies are legitimate or imaginable. This mutually constitutive relationship between identity and foreign policy continually reproduces the 'history problem' in Japan-South Korea relations.

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Japan, South Korea and the rise of a networked security architecture in East Asia

Dian

2019

Int Polit

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Burying the Hatchet? The Sources and Limits of Japan-South Korea Security Cooperation¹

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

It takes two to Tango: the difficult Japan–South Korea relations as clash of realities

It takes two to Tango: the difficult Japan–South Korea relations as clash of realities

(Re)producing the ‘history problem’: memory, identity and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute

Japan, South Korea and the rise of a networked security architecture in East Asia

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It takes two to Tango: the difficult Japan–South Korea relations as clash of realities

It takes two to Tango: the difficult Japan–South Korea relations as clash of realities

(Re)producing the ‘history problem’: memory, identity and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute

Japan, South Korea and the rise of a networked security architecture in East Asia

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