F 10-12, or by appt.
Japan is the world's second largest economy, second largest trader, and largest net creditor.
It also has by far the world's largest foreign reserves position. It is indisputably a key player in all aspects of the world political economy. Nonetheless, it has regularly been accused by other participants of taking advantage of international rules, or even playing an entirely different game from other states. Over the last decades, Japan has often been seen as a central problem for the world economic and political system, even as it has been courted as a potential solution to a wide variety of issues, often in contradictory ways. This course will seek to resolve some of those contradictions, and to disentangle fact and fiction.