TY  - BOOK
AU  - Funabashi,Yōichi
ED  - Nihon Kokusai Kōryū Sentā.
TI  - Japan's international agenda
SN  - 0814726135
AV  - DS891.2 .J38 1994
U1  - 327.52 20
PY  - 1994///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Japan
KW  - Foreign economic relations
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - "A Japan Center for International Exchange book."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword --; Preface --; Introduction : Japan's international agenda for the 1990s; Yoichi Funabashi --; 1; Japan's security policy in the 1990s; Akihiko Tanaka --; 2; Technology and the setting for Japan's agenda; Taizo Yakushiji --; 3; U.S.--Japan macroeconomic policy coordination : agenda for the 1990s and beyond / Takatoshi Ito --; 4; Rule maker of world trade : Japan's trade strategy and the world trading system; Kazumasa Iwata --; 5; Japan's role in economic cooperation and direct foreign investment; Makoto Sakurai --; 6; Japan's international agenda : structural adjustments; Heizo Takenaka
N2  - What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. Its foreign policy has thus evolved in a piecemeal manner, around the question of "managing foreign pressures." To date, policy has been largely developed by bureaucrats, who are traditionally responsible for public policy in Japan. The lack of a clear set of foreign policy objectives, however, has made it impossible for the bureaucracy to play its previous role as the arbiter of public interests. Today, there is increased recognition that in a more pluralistic society, nongovernmental public policy specialists are needed to provide a more integrated and longer-term vision of foreign policy goals. This book represents the first private and nongovernmental indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy. Japan's International Agenda makes a distinctive contribution to the foreign policy debate. Its contributors are younger Japanese non-governmental foreign affairs specialists, each with considerable international experience and a commitment to the belief that significant policy reforms are essential. As a statement of Japan's ability to contribute substantially to international policy debates on such broad questions as security and trade and development, Japan's International Agenda will enable scholars and experts in North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and elsewhere to engage in substantive dialogue on critical public policy issues with their Japanese counterparts
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/93040004-b.html
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