In this update of the 1992 edition, the author describes the emergence of Japan's new Asian strategy since the Cold War and the dilemmas it poses for American policymakers.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Question of a Resurgent Japan
- The Occupation and the Japanese Question
- Subsequent Views of the Japanese Question
Japan's Postwar National Purpose
- The Yoshida Doctrine
- Institutionalization of the Yoshida Doctrine
Competing Views of Japanese Purpose
- Progressive View of Japanese Purpose
- Economic Success and New Self-Confidence
- Political Nationalism and Opposition to the Yoshida Doctrine
A New Definition of National Purpose
- Ohira and the New Intellectual Ferment
- A Neoconservative Agenda
- Internationalization and Internationalism
- Political Beliefs and the New Internationalism
- Tenets of the New Internationalism
The Struggle to Reorient Japanese Purpose
- Nakasone's Grand Design
- A New Vision
- Japan as an International State
- A New Liberal Nationalism
- An Active Global Role
- Nakasone's Limited Success
The Burdens of History
- Obstacles to Leadership
- External Pressure
- Changing the Culture
- From Followership to Leadership
- Between the Past and the Future
Power and Purpose in a New Era
- Japan and Collective Security
- Japan and the Gulf War
- The Japanese Role in Asia
- Japan and the United States in Asia
- A New Era
Notes
Index
About the Author
