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

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction: A Framework for Analysis....Pages 1-11 Modeling Japan’s Foreign Economic Policy with the United States....Pages 13-35 Consensus or Compliance? Gaiatsu, Interests, and Japan’s Foreign Aid....Pages 37-61 Continuity and Discontinuity of Japanese Foreign Policy toward North Korea: Freezing the Korean Energy Development Organization (KEDO) in 1998....Pages 63-73 Cautious Proactivism and Reluctant Reactivism: Analyzing Japan’s Foreign Policy toward Indochina....Pages 75-99 Japan’s Middle East Policy: Fuzzy Nonbinary Process Model....Pages 101-118 Nonproliferation as a Goal of Japanese Foreign Assistance....Pages 119-136 Japan’s Role in the Making of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)....Pages 137-153 Determining Factors in Japan’s Cooperation and Noncooperation with the United States: The Case of Asian Financial Crisis Management, 1997–1999....Pages 155-173 Diplomacy of the Ministry of Finance: Promoting or Handicapping the Yen?....Pages 175-196 Conclusion: Japan in Asia and the Pacific....Pages 197-203 Back Matter....Pages 205-208