Rethinking the San Francisco System in Indo-Pacific Security

Chapter 1. The San Francisco Treaty and the San Francisco System: A Survey (Cowritten by Sugita Yoneyuki and Victor Teo).- Chapter 2. The San Francisco Peace Treaty and Elementary School English-language Education in Okinawa (Keiko Yonaha, Meio University, Japan).- Chapter 3. The San Francisco Treaty and the United States' Contribution to the Yoshida Doctrine (Yoneyuki Sugita, Kobe Women's Junior College (KWJC) & Osaka University, Japan).- Chapter 4. The San Francisco Treaty and The Demise of the 'Rearmament' Movements (Ryutaro Yoshida, Asia University & Keio University, Japan).- Chapter 5. The San Francisco Treaty and The Demise of the 'Rearmament' Movements (Ryutaro Yoshida, Asia University & Keio University, Japan).- Chapter 6. Bilateral Issues with Multilateral Origins: the case of Korea and Japan (Seung Mo Kang, Korean Institute of Maritime Strategy, South Korea).- Chapter 7. An Uneasy Marriage between Territorial Sovereignty and the Cold War: Dokdo, the Kurile Islands, Unconditional Surrender, and the Ongoing Search for Japan's Uniform Perception of the San Francisco Peace Treaty Kyu-hyun Jo (Lecturer in International Studies, Yonsei University, South Korea).- Chapter 8. A Word Before is Worth Two Behind: the implications of Taiwan's undetermined status for Japan (Tony Tai-Ting Liu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan).- Chapter 9. Preventing the Philippines from Pivoting into China's Orbit: The Role of the U.S.-Japan Security Relations (Renato Cruz De Castro, De Laselle University, The Philippines).- Chapter 10. Implications of the San Francisco Treaty on the Paracels and Spratlys: A Vietnamese Perspective (Vu Hai Dang, National University of Singapore, Singapore).- Chapter 11. The San Francisco System in Southeast Asia and Japan's search for a regional order in the 1950s (Heiko Lang, Hosei University, Japan).- Chapter 12. The San Francisco System at 70: Opportunities and Challenges in the post-Trump Pandemic Era (Jocelyn D. Roberts, US

Yoneyuki Sugita is professor at Kobe Women's Junior College. He received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. His major works include Defamiliarizing Japan's Asia-Pacific War eds. by Michael W. Myers and Puck Brecher (U. of Hawaii Press, 2019); Japan's Search for Strategic Security Partnerships eds. by Gauri Khandekar and Bart Gaens (Routledge, 2017); Japanese Development Cooperation eds. by André Asplund and Marie Soderberg (Routledge, 2017); and Pitfall or Panacea: The Irony of US Power in Occupied Japan 1945-1952 (Routledge, 2003).

Victor Teo is Research Fellow associated with the Beyond Cold War Project based at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Research of Arts Social Sciences and Humanities. He was previously Wang Gungwu Senior Visiting Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute Singapore and served as a faculty member at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author and editor of seven books related to China, Japan and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and his latest publication is Japan's Arduous Rejuvenation as a Global Power: Democratic Resilience and the US-China Challenge (Palgrave Macmillan 2019). Dr Teo was called to the Bar of England and Wales by Middle Temple (UK) and received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.