The external setting of contemporary Japanese foreign policy.
Journal: Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Year: 2023

Japanese foreign policy is now in a period of transition.Shifts in the international system and new political respon- sibilities bom of the growing Japanese impact on the world indicate a new role in world politics.The nature of that role is the subject of this study.Foreign policy is the product of both a domestic process of choice and externally defined constraints.During the post-war period Japan's domestic politics, especially national party politics, have been closely linked with the result