Japan\u27s Foreign policy under a Global Uncertainty

In this article the author delineates and analyzes the direction of Japan\u27s foreign policy during the period of a major strutural transition after the end of the Cold war.He first discusses Japan\u27s international security isssues with the heading of the Gulf and Gorbachev, its economic issues under the heading of the GATT and Group Seven, and its regional issues under the heading of the project Europe 1992, the North American Free Trade Area, and the East Asian Economic Grouping.Then he examines the domestic cleavages and competitions along the four dimesions: left versus right, private versus public sector, politicians versus bureaucrats, and interministerial rivalries.Lastly, he concludes that Japan\u27s foreign policy direction exhibits many features, reflecting a global uncertainty, with both rigidity and flexibility, both reactiveness and proactiveness, and both the failure and success of structural adaptation in world politics