Böcker av Yoichi Funabashi

What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. This book represents the first private and non- governmental indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy.

This is an overview of the process of "redefining" the US-Japan alliance. It presents four specific case studies, including the impact of macroeconomic and trade frictions on the alliance and the effect on the functions of the alliance of the suspicions about North Korea's nuclear programme.