Japan's Quest: The Search for International Recognition Status and Role

An international team of ten specialists in Japanese and American foreign relations address the crucial question: what role should Japan play in international affairs? They try to find a satisfactory answer to a concern which was first raised in the mid-19th century. Japan's World Standing: Four Measures, Tables and Figures, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, Contributors, Acronyms, Introduction: Japan's International Rankings and Roles, Part I. The Questions: What to Be, What to Do, l. Japan's Search for Recognition and Status, 2. Japan's Historical Record, Part II. The World: Economics and Security, 3. Japan's Economy: From Resource Constraints to External Surpluses, 4. Japan and Petroleum, the Most Critical Natural Resource, 5. Japan and the World Environment, 6. Japan's Constitutional Pacifism and United Nations Peacekeeping, 7. Japan's Search for a Global Role: Politics and Security, Part III. The Asian Region and Japan, 8. Japan and the Asian Economic Miracle, 9. Japan and China: Collaborators or Rivals?, 10. Japan, Korea, and Northeast Asia: A Korean View, 11. Japan and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors: Cooperative Development on the Sea of Japan Rim, Part IV. The Future: Who Will Shape It and How?, 12. Clintonian Democracy: U.S. Leadership in an Uncertain Post-Cold War World, 13. Japan's International Role, Past, Present, and Prospective, Appendix, Bibliography, Index