Introduction : are Japan and Korea alone and apart each other? / Takashi Inoguchi -- Abenomics and Abegeopolitics / Takashi Inoguchi -- Expansionary monetary policy revised / Yutaka Harada -- Return to the Liberal Democratic Party dominance? / Cheol Hee Park -- Japanese realignment impacting Korean-Japanese relations / Seung-won Suh -- South Korea's 2012 presidential election / Wan-Taek Kang -- Transformation of Korean developmental capitalism / Jongryn Mo -- Park Geun Hye's policy toward North Korea and beyond / Satoru Miyamoto -- Korean parliamentary politics / Yuki Asaba -- Japanese foreign policy : Abe II and beyond / Kazuhiko Togo -- Korean foreign policy : Geun-Hye Park looks at China and North Korea / Chung-In Moon and Seung-Chan Boo -- The Korea peninsula and Japan : global money flows as framing international relations / Takashi Inoguchi