The new edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations.

How relevant today is an alliance that was forged between a powerful United States and a weak Japan in the context of a cold war struggle with the Soviet Union?

This book moves away from the common belief that Japan’s international relations are firmly the preserve of the national government in Japan’s highly centra

The International Relations of Japan and South East Asia asks three main questions: how and when has a new South East Asian regionalism been set in motion? what

Japan has increasingly emphasized democracy assistance since the mid-2000s, such that it now constitutes a major part of Japan’s foreign policy. This approach