Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Domestic Interests, American Pressure, and Regional Integration [Paperback]

Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific aims to provide a broadened framework for examining Japan's foreign policy making by looking at conversion and diversion of interests among Japanese and American policy actors. These include governmental and non-governmental as well as domestic and transnational actors. Utilizing this theoretical framework, the contributors examine the role of U.S. pressure and its interaction with Japan's domestic and Japan-based transnational actors' interests through geographically or thematically focused case studies from Asia and the Pacific regions.Foreword; R.C.Angel Introduction; A.Miyashita Japan's Foreign Economic Policy with the United States; Y.Sato Consensus or Compliance? Gaiatsu and Japanese Foreign Aid to China and Russia; A.Miyashita Continuity and Discontinuity in Japanese Foreign Policy toward North Korea: Freezing the KEDO in 1998; H.Sakai Cautious Proactivism and Reluctant Reactivism: Analyzing Japan's Foreign Policy Toward Indochina; K.Hirata The Layered Japanese Policy Toward the Middle East: A Plea for Truly World Perspective in Understanding Realities; Y.Kuroda Non-Proliferation as a Goal of Japanese Foreign Assistance; W.Long Japan in APEC; C.K.Yeung Determining Factors of Japan's Cooperation and Non-Cooperation with the United States: The Case of Asian Financial Crisis Management, 1997-1999; S.Katada Diplomacy of the Ministry of Finance: Politics of Foreign Exchange; Y.Sato Conclusion; Y.Sato

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Yoichiro Sato is an Associate Professor and teaches military officers, diplomats, and other government officials at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, USA