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

本研究着眼于美日安保条约制度在更广泛的意义上对亚太地区的稳定（包括和平和经济发展）有什么样的意义，旨在从亚洲和大洋洲那些认为日本对他们构成威胁的国家的角度，明确美日安保条约制度的历史意义。在项目期间，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菲律宾政治、澳大利亚外交关系、美日安全条约的诞生历史、美日关系或印度尼西亚政治方面的专家。在这些研讨会的适当过程中，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变得稳定，不仅仅是因为《美日安保条约》，而是因为……更多地是由于整个地区以美国为中心的更紧密的安全、政治和经济关系。因此，从国际关系的角度来看，美日安全保障条约制度应该超越美日双边关系，放在这样一个更广阔的背景下看待。在这一共识的基础上，该项目的研究人员进行了各自的研究。他们从不同的角度探讨了项目的中心话题——以《美日安保条约》为中心的亚洲安全体制的意义：《美日安保条约》签订后，亚洲致力于军事同盟建设的时刻是什么（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（Ogashiwa）。20世纪60年代外相船田越三郎未公开的文件也被公开使用（小池）。我们的研究成果将尽早作为广岛大学和平科学研究所的研究报告系列之一发表。在建立收集到的资料数据库方面，我们遇到了很多困难，但我们正在研究为其开设主页的可能性。少

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 Unpublished documents of Foreign Minister SHIINA Etsusaburo in the 1960's are also put for public use (Koike).Our research results are to be published as one of the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