Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Smith, Sheila A., 1959–

Intimate rivals : Japanese domestic politics and a rising China / Sheila A. Smith.

pages cm

“A Council on Foreign Relations Book.”

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-231-16788-8 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-231-53802-2 (e-book)

1. Japan—Foreign relations—China. 2. China—Foreign relations—Japan. 3. Japan—Politics and government—21st century. I. Title.

DS849.C6S64 2014

327.52051—dc23 2014022523

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COVER IMAGE: Prime Minister Koizumi Jun’ichirō pays homage to the imperial war dead at Yasukuni Shrine, October 17, 2005.

(REUTERS/Eriko Sugita)

COVER DESIGN: Noah Arlow

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