On The Evolution Of Japan-Taiwan Relations

Taiwan Issue is China's internal affairs and core interests. However, With the Cold war coming to an end, Japan shifts its low-pitched attitude to a high-pitched one on Taiwan problem, starts to adjust its relations with Taiwan, intervening our Taiwan Issue. Thus The Japan-Taiwan relations' evolution appears, and has a great negative impact on the development of Sino-Japan relations, symbolizing that Japan's factor has been only inferior to American one in all the international factors.The end of the Cold War and the adjustment of Japan's national development strategies form the great background of Japan-Taiwan relations' evolution. Since 1980s, Japanese politician have brought subsequently forth its national development strategies of "political power" and "normal nation", declaring that Japan should become a political and military power. And these strategies emphasizes the Importance of Taiwan for Japan's economic and nation security, regards China's development as a threat to Japan, and holding Japan should makes use of Taiwan issue to contain China's rise. With Japan loosening the restriction of its relations with Taiwan, the qualitative change of Japan-Taiwan relations rises up. The frequencies, the rank of people and the fields that the two partied exchange have been greatly promoted or extended.The evolution of the bilateral relations is not only linked with the adjustment of Japan's national development strategies, but also closely connected with Taiwan's "Love-knot for Japan" and Japan's "Complex about Taiwan" which are resulted and driven by Japan's 50-year colonial rule over Taiwan. And the so-called "love knot" or "complex" has been the social and psychological driving force of Japan-Taiwan relations' further development. It must be pointed out that Japan-Taiwan relations' evolution is also closely linked with the strategy adjustment of American's foreign policies towards China and Taiwan's hook-in and inducement. It can be estimated that Japan will continue to promote the non-civilian relations with Taiwan for the sake of containing China's rise-up, but due to the great importance of China for Japan, Japan will promote its relations with Taiwan under the precondition that Sino-Japan relation will not break up by it. Moreover, as the main ally of America in Asia, Japan-Taiwan relations' development has been and will be restricted by American total framework of foreign polices towards China. In the long term, the evolution of Japan-Taiwan relations will be limited.