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The Kishi Effect: A Political Genealogy of Japan-ROK Relations
- Asian Perspective
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 39, Number 3, July-September 2015
- pp. 441-460
- 10.1353/apr.2015.0019
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Abstract:
The severe deterioration in South Korea-Japan relations under Abe Shinzo and Park Geun-hye seems paradoxical given that Abe’s grandfather, Kishi Nobusuke, and Park’s father, Park Chung-hee, were “close friends” who helped forge Japan-South Korea normalization in 1965. However, Abe and Park are better understood as operating within the nationalist conservative logic that brought their families together but now drives their countries apart.