Introduction: Are Japan and Korea Alone and Apart Each Other?; Takashi Inoguchi? JAPANESE POLITICS 1. Abenomics and Abegeopolitics; Takashi Inoguchi 2. Expansionary Monetary Policy Revised; Yutaka Harada 3. Return to the Liberal Democratic Party Dominance?; Cheol Hee Park 4. Japanese Realignment Impacting Korean-Japanese Relations; Seung-won Suh KOREAN POLITICS 5. South Korea's 2012 Presidential Election; Wan-Taek Kang 6. Transformation of Korean Developmental Capitalism; Jongryn Mo 7. Park Geun Hye's policy toward North Korea and Beyond; Satoru Miyamoto 8. Korean Parliamentary Politics; Yuki Asaba FOREIGN POLICY: JAPAN AND KOREA 9. Japanese Foreign Policy : Abe II and Beyond; Kazuhiko Togo 10. Korean Foreign Policy: Geun-hye Park Looks at China and North Korea; Chung-In Moon and Seung-Chan Boo 11. The Korea Peninsula and Japan: Global Money Flows as Framing International Relations; Takashi Inoguchi