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Japan’s World Power: Assessment, Outlook and Vision book cover

1st Edition

Japan’s World Power Assessment, Outlook and Vision

Edited By Guibourg Delamotte Copyright 2018
218 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Since the end of the 1960s, Japan’s power in the world has largely been linked to its economic successes, while it has pursued a decidedly pacifist post-war foreign policy. Recently, however, there has been talk of Constitutional reform, especially since the new security legislation of 2016. Coupled with the conservative tilt of the two Houses, there is evidence to suggest that Japan’s approach... Read more

Introduction: powerful or powerless? The puzzle of Japanese power Guibourg Delamotte

PART I Japan’s power strategy on the international scene 

1.  The power of Japan and its 'Grand Strategy', Kanehara Nobukatsu 

2. Contemporary Japan’s power within international financial organisations, Yago Kazuhiko 

3. Exercising power within an international organisation: Japan’s diplomacy toward the United Nations reform in the 1990s and 2000s, Akiyama Nobumasa 

PART II The challenges Japan faces

4.  'Proactive contribution to peace' in context: the long path to normalisation, Kitaoka Shin.ichi 

5. The U.S.–Japan Alliance: enhancer or brake on Japan’s power?", Kamiya Matake 

6.  Japan’s economic strength and weaknesses, Tadokoro Masayuki 

PART III Internal politics as a source of weakness

7.  How History impacts Japan’s image and interests, and what to do about it, Yamamoto Yoshinobu

8.  From weak prime minister to proactive prime minister: domestic political conditions and their transformations, Nonaka Naoto 

9. Politics should end at the water’s edge: for a national security policy beyond party lines, Nagashima Akihisa, MP and Sasaki Kenji

Biography

Guibourg Delamotte is Associate Professor of Political Science at the French Institute of Oriental Studies (INALCO), France.

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