This book aims to review the postwar interactions of Japan with Asia. The Japanese factory production system, kaizen , has been shared in Asia. This book collects more diverse topics from Japan's interactions with China, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Hong Kong. Each chapter provides details on how the business, political, and cultural interactions enrich both sides. The findings are then used to suggest the possibility of a de-facto Asian Community and Japan's role in the present and post-COVID-19 world.

Reviews past interactions between Japan and Asia Provides details on how these interactions have enriched both sides Offers suggestions on how a de-facto Asian Community could work

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Mariko TANIGAKI

Professor, Department of Area Studies,

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

Professor Mariko TANIGAKI (Ph.D.) is a professor in the Department of Area Studies, The University of Tokyo, with a B.A. in Asian Studies and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Area Studies at The University of Tokyo, Japan. She studied at the Centre of Asian Studies, the University of Hong Kong, from September 1986 to September 1987. She also taught in the Department of Civilization, School of Letters, Tokai University, as an assistant and associate professor. Her research interests cover contemporary Hong Kong studies and southern China studies. Her recent publications include Henyo suru Kanan to Kajin Nettowaku (The Morphing South China and Contemporary Chinese Networks; co-edited, 2014), and Sengo Nihon no Chugoku Kenkyu to Chugoku Ninshiki (China Studies and Views toward China in Post-war Japan, co-edited; 2018), Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self (Third Editor: Singapore: World Scientific, 2020). The former book received The Japan Consortium for Area Studies award for Collaborative Research. She is the former president of the Japan Association of South China Studies. She has written many articles on the politics and society of Hong Kong and has also contributed to the annual report of the Institute of Developing Economies (1993-2002, 2004-2006) and the Institute of Chinese Affairs (1995-2002) and also to the biannual report of the Japan Association for Asian Affairs (2004, 2006, and 2008).

Inhalt
Introduction.- The Adoption of Japan's Experience in Asia: A Case Study of the Police System of Indonesia.- Discourse, Empirics, and Perceptions on Investment and Aid: Reconsidering Chinese and Japanese Relations with the Philippines.