Strategic approach to the embodiment of regional cooperation in Northeast Asia

Abstract

The traditional way of establishing an economic community is hard to apply to the Northeast Asian region. It is why a model peculiar to Northeast Asia is called for to build up an economic cooperation body. In this context I have presented a model as a device for approaching the establishment of the Northeast Asian economic cooperation system, which is called the “Wave‐type Model”. The object of this paper is to deal with a strategic approach to the realization of the regional cooperation body in Northeast Asia by applying the Wave‐type Model and by suggesting the inter‐megalopolitan business belt in a hang glider shape on the prolongation of the Wave‐type Model. The megalopolitan business belt is a regional cooperative system with economically important cities in Northeast Asia as the pivots. This is the way‐out of breaking down the barriers hindering central governments in making a multilateral cooperation system. The inter‐megalopolitan business belt is expected to play the role of a blast of wind to raise a “wave” for the Northeast Asian economic cooperation system.