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THE FORMATION OF A JAPANOCENTRIC WORLD ORDER

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2005

Arano Yasunori
Arano Yasunori
Affiliation:
Rikkyo University, Tokyo E-mail arano@tbb.t-com.ne.jp
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Extract

Two major phenomena helped define Japan's foreign relations in the early modern period: the ban on international maritime travel and trading, and the Japanese adaptation of a Sinocentric rhetoric governing foreign relations with tributary states. In this article I will describe and analyze how these phenomena emerged and evolved, with special emphasis on the role they played in shaping Japan as an early modern nation state and forming for it a sense of “national identity.” My examination will focus on them especially in the context of Japan's relationship with its East Asian neighbours, and I place particular emphasis on four points.

Type
CONCEPT OF THE BORDER: NATIONS, PEOPLES AND FRONTIERS IN ASIAN HISTORY
Information
International Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , July 2005 , pp. 185 - 216
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2005

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Footnotes

This paper originally appeared as “Nihongata kai chitsujo no keisei” in Nihon no shakaishi 1, Rettō naigai no kōtsu to kokka . Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1987.