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Arnab Dasgupta

Dr. Arnab Dasgupta is a Associate Fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. His areas of research includes India-Japan relations, Japanese domestic politics and policy studies, human security and demographics.

Dr. Dasgupta holds a MA in Japanese language from the Centre for Japanese Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and is certified N1 in the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT).He has completed his MPhil from the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and his dissertation was on “The Immigration Policy of Japan: The Control and Integration of Migrants 2000-2012”.He has completed his PhD from the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His doctoral thesis focused on the “Teleologies of Immigration Policy of Japan: Interpretations by Civil Society and the State’’. He received his Doctoral Degree in February 2020.

Dr. Dasgupta has been awarded fellowships for his research by both the governments of India and Japan, and was the 2017-18 Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellow for Japanese Studies from India, under which he was a Visiting Researcher at the National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo. He has been published in several academic journals and web portals. He has previously worked in language education as well as translation fields before joining MP-IDSA.

Associate Fellow

Publication

The Formation of Japan-ROK Security Relations: Meeting the Evolving Cold War Challenge

There is often a tendency in modern political analysis, especially in the non-specialised academic domain, to read current political trends into the past, with the implication that thoroughly contemporary rivalries are explained away as the product of timeless processes. Thus the bloodshed engendered by the trauma of the break-up of Yugoslavia into its constituent ethnicities is somehow read as the manifestation of centuries of inchoate anger, the creation of Pakistan in 1947 is seen as the ultimate expression of communal destiny–and tensions between Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK, South Korea) are seen as unavoidable clashes between an oppressor’s historical blindness and a victim’s demand for justice. In so doing, obfuscated is the fact that Japan played a vital role in the emergence of today’s ROK, though the relationship undoubtedly remained tinged with historical wariness.

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