David Leheny

Japanese aid and the construction of global development : inescapable solutions

Inescapable Solutions: Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development David Leheny and Kay B. Warren Part I: Japanese ODA and Modes of Representation 1. Japans ODA: Naiatsu and Gaiatsu Carol Lancaster 2. Old Visions and New Actors in Foreign Aid Politics Saori N. Katada Part II: The Changing Contexts for Practicing Japanese Aid 3. Japans ODA to Vietnam and New Growth Support to Africa Izumi Ohno 4. Japans ODA to Bolivia Toru Yanagihara 5. Education Aid for Afghanistan Seiji Utsumi Part III: Human Security and the Proliferation of Transnationalisms 6. Japanese Foreign Aid and the Spread of HIV/AIDS to Women in Asia Katya Burns 7. Japanese Lessons and Transnational Forces: ODA and the Environment Derek Hall 8. Promoting Gender Equality in Japanese ODA Yumiko Tanaka Part IV: Inescapable Crises 9. Trafficking in Persons Kay B. Warren 10. Crossing Borders Petrice R. Flowers 11. Remaking Counterterrorism David Leheny Remaking Transnationalisms: Japan and the Solutions to Crises David Leheny

Terrorism risks and counterterrorism costs in post-9/11 japan

Abstract This article analyzes the distribution of costs in Japans counterterrorism since the September 11 attacks on the United States. Working closely with its alliance partner, the United States, the administration of Koizumi Junichirō dispatched troops both to the Indian Ocean and to Iraq, simultaneously depicting the risk of Islamist terrorism as a kind of depoliticized global threat, one unconnected to actual political decisions. In so doing, the government emphasized that counterterrorism would focus not on limiting state activities that might make Japan a target but rather on insulating Japan from potential terrorists. In practice, this meant tighter screening and monitoring of foreigners, as illustrated by the fingerprinting and photographing of aliens on entering Japan. This article reflects on the changes that have taken place in Japans response to terrorism since the 1977 hijacking of a Japan Air Lines (JAL) flight, when the government of Prime Minister Fukuda Takeo paid a

The samurai ride to Huntington's rescue: Japan ponders its global and regional roles

6 million ransom, released some Japanese Red Army (JRA) prisoners and secured the release of the passengers and crew based on the then popular humanitarian sentiment that ‘a human life is heavier than the earth’. Tracing how global counterterrorism conventions have increasingly sought to limit potential disorder and how the Japanese governments own efforts have since moved toward conformity with these international standards, this article demonstrates how terrorism, despite its inherently political nature, can be delinked in political discourse from political choices and turned instead into a secular risk whose costs can be apportioned according to different political logics.

Remaking counterterrorism: Japan's preparations for unconventional attacks

1. A World of Plural and Pluralist Civilizations: Multiple Actors, Traditions, and Practices Peter J. Katzenstein 2. The United States as a Civilizational Leader James Kurth 3. Europe as a Civilizational Community of Practice Emanuel Adler 4. Civilization and State Formation in the Shadow of China David C. Kang 5. The Samurai Ride to Huntingtons Rescue: Japan Ponders Its Global and Regional Roles David Leheny 6. Four Variants of Indian Civilization Susanne Hoeber Rudolph 7. Islam in Afro-Eurasia - A Bridge Civilization Bruce B. Lawrence 8. How to Think about Civilizations Patrick Thaddeus Jackson

Japan: The Precarious Future ed. by Frank Baldwin, Anne Allison (review)

Inescapable Solutions: Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development David Leheny and Kay B. Warren Part I: Japanese ODA and Modes of Representation 1. Japans ODA: Naiatsu and Gaiatsu Carol Lancaster 2. Old Visions and New Actors in Foreign Aid Politics Saori N. Katada Part II: The Changing Contexts for Practicing Japanese Aid 3. Japans ODA to Vietnam and New Growth Support to Africa Izumi Ohno 4. Japans ODA to Bolivia Toru Yanagihara 5. Education Aid for Afghanistan Seiji Utsumi Part III: Human Security and the Proliferation of Transnationalisms 6. Japanese Foreign Aid and the Spread of HIV/AIDS to Women in Asia Katya Burns 7. Japanese Lessons and Transnational Forces: ODA and the Environment Derek Hall 8. Promoting Gender Equality in Japanese ODA Yumiko Tanaka Part IV: Inescapable Crises 9. Trafficking in Persons Kay B. Warren 10. Crossing Borders Petrice R. Flowers 11. Remaking Counterterrorism David Leheny Remaking Transnationalisms: Japan and the Solutions to Crises David Leheny

Conclusion remaking transnationalisms: Japan and the solutions to crises

In The Handmaid’s Tale, her classic dystopian novel of speculative fi ction about a United States dominated by religious fundamentalists who have stripped women of virtually all rights, Margaret Atwood writes memorably, “We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?” No matter how grim the present, the future holds promise if not necessarily hope: a kind of forward momentum that bespeaks the chance, through impending 20/20 hindsight, to make sense of the blighted present. And it is taken for granted that most works of science fi ction or speculative fi ction are not really about the future at all; they are about the world we now inhabit, which is explained, rationalized, and interpreted through reference to a possible future. When the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) began its Possible Futures series (Vol. 1 published in 2011 by NYU Press), it was an effort to grapple with the consequences of the global fi nancial meltdown of 2007–8. And it is telling that in addition to a few detailed chapters about the fi nancial sector, many of the contributors to the initial three volumes were the kind of macrohistorical sociologists, global theorists, and historians of consciousness—like Immanuel Wallerstein, Saskia Sassen, and Gopal Balakrishnan—whose work has aimed at compelling intellectual accounts made that much more alluring by their daunting (and occasionally bewildering) comprehensiveness. After all, if one of the major questions was whether global capitalism had fi nally hit the skids, as it seemed to have done, what would our world soon look like? Or, perhaps more accurately, should we understand the world of 2008–10 through the rubric of a failed global capitalist system whose wreckage was bound to accumulate? Predictably, I can fi nd no reference in these initial volumes to one possible future: that the world’s most powerful country would have a presidential election won a by a foul-mouthed reality-television star who frequently took time during his campaign—when he was not otherwise engaged in fat-shaming former beauty queens, mocking a disabled reporter, and threatening in particular Muslims and Latinos with an almost Inquisitorial ferocity—to demonstrate a dismaying lack of knowledge of even the most rudimentary history, diplomacy, or science. Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison, the editors of Japan: The Precarious Future, clearly understand the mandate of the SSRC’s series (of which

Introduction: Inescapable solutions: Japanese aid and the construction of global development

Inescapable Solutions: Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development David Leheny and Kay B. Warren Part I: Japanese ODA and Modes of Representation 1. Japans ODA: Naiatsu and Gaiatsu Carol Lancaster 2. Old Visions and New Actors in Foreign Aid Politics Saori N. Katada Part II: The Changing Contexts for Practicing Japanese Aid 3. Japans ODA to Vietnam and New Growth Support to Africa Izumi Ohno 4. Japans ODA to Bolivia Toru Yanagihara 5. Education Aid for Afghanistan Seiji Utsumi Part III: Human Security and the Proliferation of Transnationalisms 6. Japanese Foreign Aid and the Spread of HIV/AIDS to Women in Asia Katya Burns 7. Japanese Lessons and Transnational Forces: ODA and the Environment Derek Hall 8. Promoting Gender Equality in Japanese ODA Yumiko Tanaka Part IV: Inescapable Crises 9. Trafficking in Persons Kay B. Warren 10. Crossing Borders Petrice R. Flowers 11. Remaking Counterterrorism David Leheny Remaking Transnationalisms: Japan and the Solutions to Crises David Leheny

Japan after Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present (review)

Inescapable Solutions: Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development David Leheny and Kay B. Warren Part I: Japanese ODA and Modes of Representation 1. Japans ODA: Naiatsu and Gaiatsu Carol Lancaster 2. Old Visions and New Actors in Foreign Aid Politics Saori N. Katada Part II: The Changing Contexts for Practicing Japanese Aid 3. Japans ODA to Vietnam and New Growth Support to Africa Izumi Ohno 4. Japans ODA to Bolivia Toru Yanagihara 5. Education Aid for Afghanistan Seiji Utsumi Part III: Human Security and the Proliferation of Transnationalisms 6. Japanese Foreign Aid and the Spread of HIV/AIDS to Women in Asia Katya Burns 7. Japanese Lessons and Transnational Forces: ODA and the Environment Derek Hall 8. Promoting Gender Equality in Japanese ODA Yumiko Tanaka Part IV: Inescapable Crises 9. Trafficking in Persons Kay B. Warren 10. Crossing Borders Petrice R. Flowers 11. Remaking Counterterrorism David Leheny Remaking Transnationalisms: Japan and the Solutions to Crises David Leheny

The Politics of Crime, Punishment, and Social Order in East Asia

a ¥300,000 fi ne. In other countries with antitraffi cking legislation, a crime of this nature would typically result in a prison sentence of 10 years or more. At the time, all human traffi cking crimes were prosecuted and punished as violations of the Immigration Law or Employment Security Law, which carried lighter punishments and fi nes than those under the criminal code. In 2004, the Japan Network Against Traffi cking in Persons (JNATIP) appealed to Diet members about the need for efforts to address the human traffi cking problem and aggressively lobbied for an action plan on counter-traffi cking measures. JNATIP members were invited to study groups of Diet members from various political parties, where they provided data on victims of traffi cking in persons and exchanged ideas. In December 2004, the Japanese government adopted an action plan to combat human traffi cking. Members of JNATIP expressed concern that the original action plan focused mainly on the punishment of perpetrators and collaborated with academics to lobby the government to also consider the protection of victims and assistance in their rehabilitation. Before the Diet approved the conclusions of the Palermo Protocols on traffi cking in humans in June 2005, the government revised its penal code to criminalize the buying and selling of persons. The revision granted victims special residency status to protect them even if they had overstayed their visas so that they could receive medical treatment before returning to their home countries. The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has also left an opening for progressive local governments to establish free medical plans (muryō keikaku shinryō) to assist traffi cking victims who cannot pay their medical fees. Meanwhile, the Interministerial Liaison Committee has sent directives to relevant government offi ces throughout Japan on how to protect victims. As a result of these directives, police no longer treat traffi cking victims, mostly overstayed foreign prostitutes, as criminals, and immigration offi cials do not automatically deport them. Overall, the argument in this book is exciting and innovative, but its organization and supporting data could be improved.