Japan: What Power? What Strategies?
Takashi Inoguchi
Is Japan an absentee power? Or is it that Japan exists but its existence goes largely unnoticed? Given that its Gross National Product is second only to the United States’, such questions seem strange. It is as if the Japanese state did not exist but the Japanese market existed as part of the global market.
• Alliance: Japanese Style
• Japan as a Global Ordinary Power
— Hegemonic Decline
— Major Emerging Economies
— China and India
— Demographic Decline
— Innovations
— Self-esteem and Pride
• What Strategies?
— Bi-Multilateralism
— Aggressive Legalism
— Sci-Tech Fundamentalism
— Human Developmentalism
• Japan as a Global Ordinary Power
• References