The Political and Economic Framework of Japan’s Foreign Policy

  • Reinhard Drifte
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Abstract

This chapter is to set the scene for Japan’s foreign policy in the 1990s by giving an overview of Japan’s power resources and by outlining the scope and modi operandi of these resources. We will look at the interaction between Japan’s domestic political economy and the external environment, and how this interaction is moderated by ideology and behavioural patterns. After dealing with the actors we will analyse the size of Japan’s economy by breaking it down into trade, investment, financial power and high technology. As we will see in the later chapters, the size and scope of the Japanese economy influences the actions which Japan has to undertake in order to maintain and expand its economy. Its economic might determines the structural, relational and ideological power of Japan towards the outside world.

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Prime Minister Foreign Policy Economic Framework Trade Surplus Japanese Economy 
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  • Reinhard Drifte
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  1. 1.University of NewcastleUK

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