Japan's International Agenda

by Funabashi, Yoichi

• ISBN13: 9780814726440
• ISBN10: 0814726445
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. Its foreign policy has thus evolved in a piecemeal manner, around the question of managing foreign pressures. To date, policy has been largely developed by bureaucrats, who are traditionally responsible for public policy in Japan. The lack of a clear set of foreign policy objectives, however, has made it impossible for the bureaucracy to play its previous role as the arbiter of public interests.Today, there is increased recognition that in a more pluralistic society, nongovernmental public policy specialists are needed to provide a more integrated and longer-term vision of foreign policy goals. This book represents the first private and non- governmental indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy.Japan's International Agendamakes a distinctive contribution to the foreign policy debate. Its contributors are younger Japanese non-governmental foreign affairs specialists, each with considerable international experience and committed to the belief that significant policy reforms are essential. As a statement of Japan's ability to contribute substantially to international policy debates on such broad questions of security and trade and development,Japan's International Agendawill enable scholars and experts in North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and elsewhere to engage in substantive dialogue on critical public policy issues with their Japanese counterparts. This book represents the first private, indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy. Its contributors are young Japanese foreign affairs specialists, each with considerable international experience and a commitment to the belief that significant policy reforms are essential.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Japan's international Agenda for the 1990s	p. 1
Japan's Security Policy in the 1990s	p. 28
Technology and the Setting for Japan's Agenda	p. 57
U.S.-Japan Macroeconomic Policy Coordination: Agenda for the 1990s and Beyond	p. 81
Rule Maker of World Trade: Japan's Trade Strategy and the World Trading System	p. 111
Japan's Role in Economic Cooperation and Direct Foreign Investment	p. 143
Japan's International Agenda: Structural Adjustments	p. 164
Contributors	p. 187
Index	p. 191
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