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Japan's Quiet Leadership
Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
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2023
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Why has Japan emerged from the “lost decades” unscathed from the populist wave and a far more consequential actor in the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific? In answering this question, Japan’s Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japan’s domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the country’s security profile. This deep dive into Japan’s trajectory over the last three decades underscores Japan’s hidden strengths in its democratic resilience, social stability, and proactive diplomacy; while reckoning with the profound challenges the nation faces: depopulation, rising inequality, voter disengagement, and threats to Asia’s long peace. The book traces the profound currents of change coursing through the Japanese polity and its external environment; and the myriad ways in which Japan’s experience has become more relevant to countries coping with slow growth, adverse demographics, adjustment to economic globalization, and the emergence of a powerful and assertive China.
This is a story of Japan’s reinvention as a network power to overcome the harsh realities of diminishing relative capabilities. In reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Tokyo deployed a robust economic strategy of trade integration and infrastructure finance; and a proactive security diplomacy cultivating new partnerships with regional and extra-regional actors and deepening the alliance with the United States. Nevertheless, acute geopolitical rifts, Japan’s pandemic insularity, and the securitization of international economic relations are testing Japan’s statecraft of connectivity. The tasks at home are no less pressing: delivering on the green, digital, and human capital transformations, avoiding the return of the politics of indecision at the helm of the nation, and fostering democratic dynamism. This book illuminates where the Japanese polity, economy, and people are heading as we move past the Abe era, and well into the 2020s and beyond.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-4026-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-3998-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
246
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Contents No access
Note on Japanese Names No access
Introduction No access
Stability amid Economic Globalization No access
Foreign Workers in Japan No access
What Went Wrong (and Right) during Japan’s Lost Decades? No access
Enter Abenomics No access
The Quest for Revitalization No access
Change and Continuity in Japanese Politics1 No access
Japan’s Democracy in the Populist Era No access
Japan as Champion of Connectivity in a Rules-Based Order No access
The Sharp Edge of Japan’s Economic Statecraft No access
The Growing Pains of a Nascent Security Role No access
