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Financial Times
Comment & analysis / Editorial comment High price of east Published: May 5 2006 03:00 | Last updated: May 5 2006 03:00 Asian nationalism Taro Aso, Japanese foreign minister and possible candidate for the post of prime minister, has issued a timely if one-sided warning about the dangers of "narrow-minded nationalism" in east Asia. The truth is that Japan itself - as well as China and South Korea - must work harder to ensure that Asia's increasingly acerbic verbal skirmishes do not lead to something worse. Mr Aso's comments in Washington, where he cautioned against a regional arms race and urged China to be more open about its rising military expenditure, come amid a worrying resurgence of disputes over territory and history. Beijing and Tokyo are at loggerheads over disputed islands and gas fields in the East China Sea. Seoul and Tokyo are arguing about another set of Korean-administered islets. Ten days ago, Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean president, threatened "powerful and stern" measures in response to any Japanese encroachment. Japan, furthermore, faces intense criticism from its Asian neighbours over the nationalist Yasukuni shrine, where 14 of the country's worst war criminals are commemorated along with other soldiers. Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister due to step down in September, has offended the countries that fell victim to Japanese aggression in the 1930s and 1940s by making a point of visiting the shrine regularly. Fortunately, the mood in Japan seems to have shifted in favour of conciliation, so that politicians such as Mr Aso and Shinzo Abe, the hawkish chief cabinet secretary and frontrunner to succeed Mr Koizumi, have been obliged to moderate their nationalism. Optimists can also point to the way growing trade and investment have bound the countries of east Asia in a mutually beneficial economic embrace; only yesterday, the Japanese, Chinese and South Korean finance ministers reached a vague agreement at a meeting in India on the need to improve regional financial co-operation. And it is possible to dismiss some of the latest rhetoric as political grandstanding ahead of local elections in South Korea this month and the looming struggle for the premiership within Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party. Playing the nationalist card for domestic political ends, however, is a dangerous game, as China discovered when popular nationalist sentiment boiled over last year and led to anti-Japanese rioting. Nor can anyone who values peace fail to be concerned about the bitter exchanges between Japan and South Korea, the two main US allies that have underpinned Washington's benign dominance of the Pacific since the second world war. In the circumstances, perhaps it was inevitable that the accord yesterday between Japan, China and South Korea lacked substance. It is hard for finance ministers to yield ground in the interests of economic integration when presidents and prime ministers are talking so loudly about sovereignty.
by alfayoko2005
| 2006-05-05 12:15
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