The Reception of Anglo-American IR in Postwar Japan

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Scholars have often noted that the field of international studies in postwar Japan is merely a copy ("yu-nyu," or "import") of Anglo-American International Relations (IR). Against this background, the present study has investigated the details of this "import" by scrutinizing how Japanese intellectuals read the works of classical Anglo-American theorists such as E. H. Carr, Hans J. Morgenthau, and Harold Nicolson. It proved that at the center of those Japanese intellectuals' enterprise was the problem of how to face the crisis of modernity: grappling with this issue, they did not idolatrize the Anglo-American theories but they employed the insights of Anglo-American international studies only for articulating such concern.