Japan's Relations with Muslim Asia

By B Bryan Barber

Book Overview

This book offers a useful and extensive account of Japan's past discoveries and present interactions with Muslim states and societies across Asia. Bearing in mind the U.S.-led global meta-narrative of Islam spoken in tandem with security and threats, this book examines how this reconciles with Japan's self-proclaimed "values-based" approach to diplomacy across Asia in the twenty-first century. The author considers Japan's historic conceptualization and learning of Islam, and its acute needs for access to markets and energy from Muslim-majority states in Asia. He also argues that Japan securitizes Islam in a manner distinct from Western, Russian, or Chinese securitization today, but that Japan promotes itself as a model for human security and development across an Asia inclusive of Muslim states. Japan's approach to Islam and Muslim societies today offers much from which other great powers can learn.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030342824
• ISBN13: 9783030342821
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"