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		American Political Science Association
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1 Japan and Korea: The Essential Irrelevance of History? By Paul Midford and Shinya Mitsuhashi Citations Welcome Comments Welcome!! midfordp@ksc.kwansei.ac.jp Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Chicago September 2-5 2004 2 Introduction Disputes over history textbooks and religious visits have been identified as a grave threat to Japanese-Korean relations. Many observers claim that the flaring of sharp disputes over a new rightwing Japanese textbook published in 2001 and the paying of an
that a focus on military reassurance to the exclusion of historical reassurance is not enough. Japan simply needs to do more to reassure Korea that its view of history is not radically at odds with Korea's as part of an overall reassurance strategy designed 28 to convince Korea that Japan will not again threaten Korean security. As part of this effort Japan has to work with Korea to resolve specific disputes about history. For example Japan might do well