Agendas for Japanese Foreign Policy

Abstract

The foregoing pages suggest that, without taking domestic issues into account, one cannot explore the possibilities for Japanese foreign policy agendas. In this chapter, bearing this in mind, I will examine these agendas in response to the end of the Cold War, the end of geography and the end of history, from three viewpoints: the US–Japan security treaty; the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor, the World Trade Organization; and the existence of, and functional changes within, the Liberal Democratic Party.