Japanese Foreign Policy Today

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. The Actors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

      • Tanaka Akihiko

      Pages 3-17

   3. Emerging Foreign Policy Actors: Subnational Governments and Nongovernmental Organizations

      • Purnendra Jain

      Pages 18-39

3. The Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Japan and International Organizations

      • Edward Newman

      Pages 43-64

   3. Globalization and Regionalization

      • Moon Chung-in, Park Han-kyu

      Pages 65-82

   4. Japanese Foreign Policy and Human Rights

      • Ian Neary

      Pages 83-95

   5. Japanese Environmental Foreign Policy

      • Ohta Hiroshi

      Pages 96-121

   6. Japanese Role in PKO and Humanitarian Assistance

      • Caroline Rose

      Pages 122-135

   7. Ironies in Japanese Defense and Disarmament Policy

      • Tsuchiyama Jitsuo

      Pages 136-151

   8. Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a Japanese Foreign Policy Tool

      • Fukushima Akiko

      Pages 152-174

4. The Relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. U.S.-Japan Relations in the Post-Cold War Era: Ambiguous Adjustment to a Changing Strategic Environment

      • Akaha Tsuneo

      Pages 177-193

   3. Japan and the European Union

      • Reinhard Drifte

      Pages 194-208

   4. The Waiting Game: Japan-Russia Relations

      • C. W. Braddick

      Pages 209-225

   5. Japanese Foreign Policy toward Northeast Asia

      • Kamiya Matake

      Pages 226-250

   6. Japanese Relations with Southeast Asia in an Era of Turbulence

      • Lam Peng Er

      Pages 251-265

   7. Japan and South Asia: Between Cooperation and Confrontation

      • Purnendra Jain

      Pages 266-282

   8. Japan and Australia

      • Rikki Kersten

      Pages 283-296

The US remains the leading world power, but across the Pacific, Japan has the world s second largest economy and great international economic clout. Some voices in the international arena have urged Japan to play more constructive and politically active roles in the international arena. This volume collects essays analyzing the key issues in Japan s international relations as it heads toward a new world order: the pressing global and regional issues and their domestic implications, the actors, and the major policy directions.

• economy
• environmental policy
• Europe
• European Union (EU)
• foreign policy
• globalization
• government
• human rights
• Institution
• international relations
• Policy
• world order

• University of Tokyo, Japan

  Inoguchi Takashi

• Centre for Asian Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia

  Purnendra Jain

Takashi Inoguchi is Professor and Head of the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide.

Purnendra Jain is Professor of International Relations at the University of Tokyo.

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