Japan And East Asian Integration Trade And Domestic Politics Jemma Kim by Jemma Kim 9781351982788, 9781138282520, 1351982788, 1138282529 instant download after payment.

For almost 50 years, Japan pursued a single-track approach focusing trade negotiation efforts exclusively on the global multilateral forum while shunning regionalism as harmful to the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs/World Trade Organization system. However, following the tsunami disaster of March 2011 and widespread economic downturn, Tokyo has engaged much more actively in pursuing bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). This book explores the turnaround in Japanese strategy and trade policy. Drawing on case studies and including interviews with FTA policymakers within the government and key interest groups, it focuses on the domestic political process of FTA and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations to investigate the cause of the policy shift. This work will prove useful to students, scholars and policymakers interested in international political economy, Japanese trade policy, East Asian regionalism and the FTA/TPP. Jemma Kim is Associate Professor of the School of Global Japanese Studies at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. She earned her PhD in International Relations from Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University in 2008 (Double Master Degree in both Korea University and Hitotsubashi University). Her specialties are international political economy, FTA policy and East Asian international relations. Prior to joining Meiji University, she was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University and COE researcher at the Department of Law in Hitotsubashi University.