Japanese Foreign Policy Today

by Takashi Inoguchi, Purnendra Jain

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 the pressing global and regional issues and their domestic implications, the actors, and the major policy directions.

335 pages, Hardcover

First published November 18, 2000

About the author

Takashi Inoguchi was a Japanese academic researcher of foreign affairs and international and global relationships of states. He was the president of the University of Niigata Prefecture, and a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.