Publications 

Japan's New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific, New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.  Winner of the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Book Award, 2002.

Taming Japan's Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy, with Gene Park, Giacomo Chiozza and Yoshiko Kojo.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.

The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft, with Cynthia A. Roberts and Leslie Elliott Armijo.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Markets Survived the Global Financial Crisis. Carol Wise, Leslie Elliott Armijo and Saori N. Katada (eds.).  Brookings Press. February 2015.

The Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers: Shield and Sword in Asia and Latin America. Leslie Elliott Armijo and Saori N. Katada (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, August 2014. Translated into Chinese.

The Global Economic Crisis and East Asian Regionalism. Saori N. Katada (ed.) Routledge, 2012. Based on the special issue from The Pacific Review under the same title published in July 2011.

Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim. Mireya Solís, Barbara Stallings and Saori N. Katada (eds.), London: Palgrave Macmillan.  August 2009.

Cross Regional Trade Agreements: Understanding Permeated Regionalism in East Asia. Saori N. Katada and Mireya Solís (eds.), Berlin: Springer. September 2008.  Based on the special issue from Pacific Affairs on Cross Regionalism published in July 2007, with an additional country chapter and the conclusion.

Global Governance: Germany and Japan in the International System. Saori N. Katada, Hanns W. Maull, and Takashi Inoguchi (eds.), Alershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2004.

“Manufacturing Consensus: China’s Strategic Narratives, Regional Hedging, and Geoeconomic Competition.” European Journal of International Relations. Published online on December 22, 2023

“Reshoring From China: Comparing South Korean and Japanese Approaches during the Pandemic.” The Pacific Review. Vol. 36, No. 5. Published online in September 2023

“A New Phase of Indo-Pacific Economic Connectivity and Governance.” The Japan Institute of International Affairs. Published online on January 14, 2021.  

“Asymmetric Incentives and the New Politics of Monetary Policy.” with Gene Park and Gabrielle Cheung, Socio-Economic Review. Published online on November 8, 2020: DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwaa045

“Author's Response: Positioning Japan's State in a New Regional Reality.” Asia Policy, Vol. 27, No. 4. October 2020.

“Geoeconomics, Easy Money, and Political Opportunism: The Perils under China and Japan’s High-Speed Rail Competition.” with Jessica Liao, Contemporary Politics. Published online on September 14, 2020: DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2020.1816626

“Striving for Greatness: Status Aspirations, Rhetorical Entrapment, and Domestic Reforms.” with Alex Yu-Ting Lin, Review of International Political Economy. Published online August 2020. DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1801486

“China and Japan in Pursuit of Infrastructure Development Leadership: Competition or Convergence?” with Jessica Liao, Global Governance, Vol. 26, No. 3. September 2020.

“The Varieties of Collective Financial Statecraft: The BRICS and China.” with Cynthia Roberts and Leslie Elliott Armijo, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 132, No. 3, Fall 2017, p. 402-433.

“In Pursuit of Stability: Evolution of Asia’s Regional Financial Architecture,” The Pacific Review, Vol. 30, No. 6; 910–922. September 2017. DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2017.1307873 (online publication; March 31, 2017). 

“At the Crossroads: The TPP, AIIB, and Japan’s Foreign Economic Strategy,” AsiaPacific Issues, No. 125.  May 2016.  East West Center.

“Unlikely Pivotal States in Competitive FTA Diffusion: The Effect of Japan’s TPP Participation on Asia-Pacific Regional Integration.” with Mireya Solís (Brookings Institution). New Political Economy.  Vol. 20, No. 2. April 2015; 155-177. 

“Theorizing the Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers” with Leslie Elliott Armijo (Portland State University).  New Political Economy.  Vol. 20, No. 1; February 2015; 42-62.

“The Fault Lines of the New Global Financial Architecture: Can G20 Keep up with its Expanding Issue Coverage?” with Peter Knaack (USC). Global Policy. Vol. 4, Issue 3. September 2013. 

“Financial Crisis Fatigue?  Politics behind Japan’s post-Global Financial Crisis Economic Contraction” Journal of Japanese Political Science, Vol. 14, Issue 2; 223-242 (June 2013).

“Seeking a Place for East Asian Regionalism: Challenges and Opportunities under the Global Financial Crisis.” The Pacific Review. Vol. 24, No. 3, July 2011: 273-290 (Listed on Routledge highly cited collection for 2013). Also the Guest Editor of this special issue titled “The Global Economic Crisis and East Asian Regionalism: Fundamental Challenges and New Opportunities Uncovered.” 

“Domestic Sources of Japanese Foreign Policy Activism: Loss Avoidance and Demand Coherence.” with Mireya Solís. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. Vol. 10, No. 1. January 2010; 129-157 (Top 10 most cited article in IRAP in 2013)

“From a Supporter to a Challenger? Japan’s Currency Leadership in Dollar-dominated East Asia.” Review of International Political Economy. Vol. 15, No. 3, August 2008; 399-417. Reprinted in The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus on October 2, 2008.

“Trading Gains for Control: Forum Choices in International Trade and Japanese Economic Diplomacy,” with Saadia M. Pekkanen and Mireya Solís. International Studies Quarterly. Vol. 51, No. 4, December 2007; 945-970.

“Understanding East Asian Cross-Regionalism: An Analytical Framework.” with Mireya Solís.  Pacific Affairs. Vol. 80, No. 2, July 2007; 229-257.

“The Japan-Mexico FTA: A Cross-Regional Step in Japan’s New Trade Regionalism.” with Mireya Solís.  Pacific Affairs. Vol. 80, No. 2, July 2007; 279-300.

“Japan’s Two-Track Aid Approach: The Forces behind Competing Triads.” Asian Survey. Vol. 42, No. 2, March/April 2002; 320-342.

“Japan and Asian Monetary Regionalization: Cultivating a New Regional Leadership after the Asian Financial Crisis.” Geopolitics. Vol. 7, No. 1, Summer 2002; 85-112.

“Why did Japan Suspend Foreign Aid to China?  Japan’s Foreign Aid Decision-making and Sources of Aid Sanction.” Social Science Japan Journal. Vol. 4, No. 1, April 2001; 39-58.

“Japanese Foreign Aid after the San Francisco Peace Treaty.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations. Vol. 9, No. 3-4, Fall-Winter 2000; 1-24.

“Aid Politics and Electoral Politics: Japan, 1970-1992” with Timothy J. McKeown. International Studies Quarterly. Vol. 42, No. 3, September 1998; 591-600.

“The Japanese Government in Two Mexican Crises: An Emerging Lender-of-Last-Resort?” Pacific Affairs. Vol. 71, No. 1, Spring 1998; 61-79.

“Two Aid Hegemons: Japanese-American Interactions and Aid Allocations to Latin America and the Caribbean.” World Development. Vol. 25, No.6, June 1997; 931-945.

“Between Big-push (quantity) and Bankability (quality); Geoeconomics of Infrastructure Financing in the Indo-Pacific” In Vinod Aggarwal and Margaret Kenney (eds.), Great Power Competition and Middle Power Strategies: Economic Statecraft in the Asia-Pacific Region, Springer Nature, 2023; 95-118.

Chapter 7 “Gatekeeper’s Dilemma: Japan Facing CPTPP Applications from China and Taiwan.” In Chun-yi Lee and Michael Reilly (eds.). Global partnership or regional stand- off? China, Taiwan, the UK and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans- Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Springer Nature, 2023; 141-164.

Chapter 4 “Enduring Dilemma of Japan’s Uniqueness Narratives” with Kei Koga. Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry, and Karoline Postel-Vinay (eds.), Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order. Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2023; 115-142.

Chapter 17 “Economic Policy Trilemma: Macroeconomic Politics in the 2021 Election.” With Kenya Amano. Robert Pekkanen, Dan Smith and Steve Reed (eds.). Japan Decides 2021. Palgrave, 2022; 255-274.

Chapter 24 “Finance and Monetary Issues.” With Hyoung-kyu Chey. Jürgen Rütland and Astrid Carrapatoso (eds.). The Edward Elgar Handbook on Regionalism and Global Governance, Edward Elgar Press. 2022.

“Competitive Rule-Setting: Geoeconomics, Japan and Regional Economic Order,” in The Great Game Reloaded: Order and Disorder in Geopolitics and Global Governance, ed. Henning Glaser, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2021.

Chapter 31 “Finance.” With Yoichi Nemoto (Hitotsubashi University). Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M. Pekkanen (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021.

“Monetary and Fiscal Politics in the 2017 Snap Election.” With Gabrielle Cheung (USC) in Japan Decides 2017 edited by Robert Pekkanen, Dan Smith, Steven Reed and Ethan Scheiner. Palgrave, June 2018; 243-259.

“Cooperation without Institutions: The Case of East Asian Currency Arrangement” with C. Randall Henning (American University) in Saadia M. Pekkanen (ed.) Asian Designs: Governance in the Contemporary World Order. Cornell University Press. 2016; 59-74.

“Chapter 12: Asia” with Anja Jetschke (University of Gottingen). In Thomas Risse and Tanja Borzel (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism. Oxford University Press. 2015.

“Japan’s Stealth Decision: Trans-Pacific Partnership” with Scott Wilbur (USC). In Robert Pekkanen, Steven Reed and Ethan Scheiner (eds.) Japan Decides 2014. Palgrave Macmillan. 2015; 247-261.

“Fiscal Survival and Financial Revival: Possible Futures for the Japanese Economy,” with Gene Park (Loyola Marymount University). In Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison (eds.). Possible Future of Japan. Albany: New York University Press. 2015; 167-188.

“Lessons from the Cases? How the Pacific Rim Survived the Global Crisis.” With Leslie Elliott Armijo (Portland State University) and Carol Wise (USC). In Carol Wise (USC), Leslie Elliott Armijo (Portland State) and Saori N. Katada (eds.). Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Markets Survived the Global Financial Crisis. Brookings Press, 2015.

“New Kids on the Block: Rising Multipolarity, More Financial Statecraft.” With Leslie Elliott Armijo (Portland State University). In Leslie Elliott Armijo and Saori N. Katada (eds.). The Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

“Regionalism as Financial Statecraft: Pursuit of Counterweight Strategies by China and Japan.” With Injoo Sohn (University of Hong Kong). In Leslie Elliott Armijo and Saori N. Katada (eds.). The Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

“The Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers: How, Why, and So What?” with Leslie Elliott Armijo (Portland State University). In Leslie Elliott Armijo and Saori N. Katada (eds.). The Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

“Currency” with C. Randall Henning. In Saadia M. Pekkanen, John Ravenhill and Rosemary Foot (eds.) Oxford Handbook on International Relations of Asia. Oxford University Press. 2014.

“Regional Financial Cooperation” in Mark Beeson (University of Western Australia) and Richard Stubbs (McMaster University) (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Asian Regionalism. Routledge. 2011.

“Comments” on Nagash Kumar’s paper on “Financial Crisis and Regional Economic Cooperation in Asia-Pacific: Towards an Asian Economic Community?” at Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Annual Conference “Political Economy of Asian Regionalism”

“Mission Accomplished, or a Sisyphean Task? Japan’s Regulatory Response to the Global Financial Crisis.” A chapter in Eric Helleiner, Stefano Pagliari, and Hubert Zimmermann (eds.) Global Finance in Crisis: The Politics of International Regulatory Change. Routledge. December 2009; 137-152.

“Old Visions and New Actors in Foreign Aid Politics: Explaining Changes in Japan’s ODA Policy to China,” a chapter in David Leheny and Kay Warren (eds.), Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development: Inescapable Solutions. New York: Routledge (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series). November 2009; 54-74.

“Conclusion: Free Trade Agreements in a Competitive World.” With Barbara Stallings. Concluding chapter in Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim. Mireya Solís, Barbara Stallings and Saori N. Katada (eds.), London: Palgrave Macmillan. August 2009; 236-251.

“Explaining FTA Proliferation: A Policy Diffusion Framework.” With Mireya Solís. In Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim. Mireya Solís, Barbara Stallings and Saori N. Katada (eds.), London: Palgrave Macmillan. August 2009; 1-24.

“Under Pressure: Japan’s Institutional Response to Regional Uncertainty,” with Mireya Solis. A chapter in Vinod Aggarwal, Min Gyo Koo, Seungjoo Lee, and Chung-in Moon (eds.), Northeast Asian Regionalism: Ripe for Integration? Berlin: Springer. 2008; 109-147.

“Japan’s Role in the Latin America's Debt Management, 1982-91,” a chapter in Yoichiro Sato and Keiko Hirata (eds.), Norms, Interests and Power in Japanese Foreign Policy, Palgrave. 2008; 151-172.

“Cross-Regional Trade Agreement in East Asia: Findings and Implications.” a chapter in Saori N. Katada and Mireya Solís (eds.), Cross Regional Trade Agreements: Understanding Permeated Regionalism in East Asia, Berlin: Springer, 2008; 147-159.

“Japan’s Financial Politics: Institutional Challenges toward and against Liberalization.” In Saadia M. Pekkanen and Kellee S. Tsai (eds.). Japan and China in the World Political Economy. New York: Rutledge, 2006; 151-172.

“Balancing Act: Japan’s Strategy in Global and Regional Financial Governance.” In John English, Ramesh Thakur and Andrew F. Cooper (eds.). A Leaders 20 Summit: Why, How, Who and When? Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2005; 97-120.

“New Courses in Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy: More Humanitarian and more Nationalistic.” In Saori N. Katada, Hanns W. Maull and Takashi Inoguchi (eds.). Global Governance: Germany and Japan in the International System. 2004, Aldershot: Ashgate; 183-199.

“Introduction: German and Japanese Foreign Policies and Global Governance,” with Hanns W. Maull and Takashi Inoguchi. In Saori N. Katada, Hanns W. Maull and Takashi Inoguchi (eds.). Global Governance: Germany and Japan in the International System. 2004, Aldershot: Ashgate

“Conclusion: Germany and Japan in Global Governance: A Comparative Perspective,” with Hanns W. Maull and Takashi Inoguchi. In Saori N. Katada, Hanns W. Maull and Takashi Inoguchi (eds.). Global Governance: Germany and Japan in the International System. 2004, Aldershot: Ashgate; 237-251.

“Japan’s Counter-Weight Strategy: U.S.-Japan Cooperation and Competition in International Finance.” In Ellis Krauss and T. J. Pempel (eds.), Beyond Bilateralism: the U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific. 2003, Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 2003; 176-197.

“Japan’s Approach to Shaping a New International Financial Architecture.” In John J. Kirton and George M. von Furstenberg (eds.). New Directions in Global Economic Governance: Managing Globalization in the Twenty-First Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; 113-126.

“Determining Factors of Japan’s Cooperation and Non-cooperation with the United States: The Case of Asian Financial Crisis Management, 1997-1999.” In Akitoshi Miyashita and Yoichiro Sato (eds.), Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Domestic Interests, American Pressure, and Regional Integration. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001; 155-173.