The US-Japan Security Treaty Regime and the Asia-Pacific Nations

本研究白色着眼于从和平与经济发展的角度来看，美日安保条约制度对亚太地区的稳定具有什么样的意义这一问题，旨在从认为日本对自己构成威胁的亚洲和大洋洲国家的角度，明确美日安保条约制度的历史意义。我们与广岛大学和平科学研究所共同举办了五次研讨会，每次研讨会都有一位演讲嘉宾，他是菲律宾政治、澳大利亚外交关系、美日安保条约诞生史、美日关系或印尼政治方面的专家。在这些研讨会的适当时候，该项目的研究人员形成了一个共同的观点，即亚太国家与日本之间的关系之所以稳定，不仅仅是因为《美日安保条约》，而是因为 关于我们 在以美国为中心的整个地区建立更密切的安全、政治和经济关系。因此，在国际关系的争论中，应该把美日安保条约制度放在超越美日双边关系的更广阔的背景下来看待。基于这一共识，本课题的研究者们展开了各自的研究。他们从不同的角度探讨了课题的中心议题--以《美日安保条约》为中心的亚洲安全保障体制的意义：《美日安保条约》缔结后，亚洲在什么时刻致力于军事同盟建设（吉田）;日本试图扮演什么角色（森部）;以及国际环境的变化如何改变他们对日本的看法（小笠原）。此外，还公开了60年代的石井越三郎外相的未公开资料（小池）。我们的研究成果将作为广岛大学和平科学研究所的研究报告系列之一，尽早发表。至于建立一个数据库的收集材料，我们面临着很多困难，但调查的可能性，打开一个网页。减

This research, white keeping the issue in mind that what kind of meanings the US-Japan Security Treaty Regime had for the stability in the Asia-Pacific region in a broader term including peace and economic development, aimed at making the historical significance of the US-Japan Security Treaty regime clear from the view point of those nations in Asia and Oceania who saw Japan pose a threat to them.During the term of the project, we held five seminars with the Institute for Peace Science of Hiroshima University as a co-sponsor and each of these seminars had a guest speaker who was a specialist of the Philippine Politics, the Australian Foreign Relations, the birth history of the US-Japan Security Treaty, the US-Japan Relations, or the Indonesian Politics. In due course of these seminars, the investigators of this project formed a shared view that the relations between the Asia-Pacific nations and Japan had become stable not just because of the US-Japan Security Treaty but, rather, becau … More se of closer security, political and economic relations within the whole region with the US at its center. Thus the US-Japan Security Treaty Regime should be seen, in the argument of the international relations, in such a broader context beyond the bilateral US-Japan relations.On this shared understanding, the investigators of the project conducted their individual researches. They approached the central topic of the project, the meaning of the Security Regime in Asia centered around the US-Japan Security Treaty from different angles : After the conclusion of the US-Japan Security Treaty, what was a moment which made Asia commit to military alliance building (Yoshida) ; what roles Japan attempted to play (Moribe) ; and how the changes of the international environment transform their views toward Japan (Ogashiwa). Unpublished documents of Foreign Minister SHIINA Etsusaburo in the 1960's are also put for public use (Koike).Our research results are to be published as one of the Research Report Series of the Institute for the Peace Science, Hiroshima University, at the earliest possible time. As to building a data-base of the collected materials, we are confronting a lot of difficulties but investigating a possibility of opening a homepage for it. Less