SUDO Sueo <br/><br/>
Japan's ASEAN policy:  reactive or proactive in the face of a rising China in East Asia?/ 
Sueo Sudo 
 -  2009 
<br/><br/> This article examines the current state of Japan-ASEAN relations and especially focuses on the recent explicit efforts to strengthen a strategic partnership.  Clarifying the changing nature of Japanese foreign policy toward ASEAN since the late 1990s, the article contends that Japanese initiatives are neither exceptional nor sporadic in nature. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>ASEAN--FOREIGN RELATIONS--JAPAN