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Introduction : Japan's international rankings and roles / Warren S. Hunsberger -- Japan's search for recognition and status / Masaru Tamamoto -- Japan's historical record / Warren S. Hunsberger and Richard B. Finn -- Japan's economy : from resource constraints to external surpluses / Warren S. Hunsberger -- Japan and petroleum, the most critical natural resource ; Japan and the world environment / Karasawa Kei -- Japan's constitutional pacifism and United Nations peacekeeping / Okubo Shiro -- Japan's search for a global role : politics and security / Richard B. Finn --Japan and the Asian economic "miracle" / Nishiguchi Kiyokatsu -- Japan and China : collaborators or rivals? / Hwei-ling Huo -- Japan, Korea, and Northeast Asia : a Korean view / Hyung Kook Kim -- Japan and its Northeast Asian neighbors : cooperative development on the Sea of Japan Rim / Seki Hiroharu -- Clintonian democracy : U.S. leadership in an uncertain post-Cold War world / Philip J. Brenner -- Japan's international role, past, present, and perspective / Warren S. Hunsberger. |