Japan and Vietnam: two different worlds? The paths of the North Asian economic giant and the Southeast Asian socialist country in the throes of transition were not particularly meant to cross. But this geography–economics logic has been disproved by History time and again.
Way back in the 14th century, Japanese merchants contributed to the prosperity of Hoi An, the Annamese city. Since then there have been numerous, often conflictual encounters. From the time of the occupation by the Imperial army during the Second World War up to the utilisation of the Okinawa base by the American B-52’s during the Vietnam war, Tokyo has been perceived as an enemy by Hanoi.
Today there is a rapprochement between the two countries and a certain convergence of their cultural models.
Guy Faure and Laurent Schwab take us along the path of this mutation which in a certain way marks the emergence of a new Asia.
Table of Content
SUMMARY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GLOSSARY
INTRODUCTION
PART I
JAPANESE PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE
Chapter 1
Japan’s modernisation seen from Hanoi
1. Peaceful growth in trade in the 16th and 17th century .
2. Restoration of the Meiji era and modernisation.
3. dong du (the exodus towards the East) or the lost opportunity.
4. Vietnamese nationalism and the “sphere of mutual prosperity of Greater East Asia”
Chapter 2
The Pacific war and the Imperial Army in Vietnam
1. Vietnam- bridge between China and Southeast Asia.
2. Japanese occupation.
3. Japanese presence and the emancipation of Indochina
4. Responsibility for an apocalypse or the origin of the famine of 1945
5. Japanese renegades in the Viêt-minh
PART 2
PERCEPTIONS OF VIET NAM FROM THE WAR TO THE DOI MOI
Chapter 3
The Vietnam war seen from Tokyo
1. The Okinawa factor
2. Separation of politics and economics
3. Japanese opposition to the Vietnam war
4. Economic repercussions of the Vietnam war.
5. From a peaceful movement to the fight against war.
Chapter 4
From reunification to the doi moi
1. Reunification and the Fukuda doctrine
2. Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia and Japan’s disappointment.
3. Arrival of « boat people » in Japan
4. doi moi and withdrawal from Cambodia
5. Return of the Japanese to Vietnam
PART 3
THE PERIOD OF TRADE AND REDISCOVERY
Chapter 5
The development of business relations
1. 1991 : the starting point
2. Trade
3. Direct investments: an evolution over four periods
4. Logic and modalities of establishment
5. Sectorial analysis
Oil issues
Telecommunications
The infrastructure sector
Consumer goods
6. Is the Vietnamese market of economic importance to Japan?
Chapter 6
Mutual rediscovery
1. Ideology and the market
2. Images and perceptions
3. Vietnam and the ethnic boom in Japan
4. Japanese vietnamology and Vietnamese japanology
5. Influences, cross cultures and cultural traditions
Chapter 7
The Strategic and diplomatic dimension and the APD
1. Assistance as a continuation of the Fukuda doctrine
2. Aid to Vietnam
3. Financial aid and « conceptual » aid
4. Integrating Vietnam in its regional environment : The « Greater Mekong Subregion» program
The first step : laying emphasis on infrastructure
A finalised institutional mechanism
What impact on the economic situation of the member countries ?
4. Prospects of Japanese aid
CONCLUSION
CHRONOLOGY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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