Introduction
Partnership within hierarchy : an analytic frame
Repatriation of Korean residents from Japan to North Korea
Japan-ROK normalization talks and institutionalization of the security triangle
Japan's two Koreas policy and its commitment to U.S.-Japan alliance in UN
Japan-ROK security-based economic cooperation : U.S.-framed burden sharing
Controversy over historicaliIssues
North Korea factor and the persistence of the security triangle
Conclusions.