戰後 日本의 經濟外交史

A history of economic diplomacy in the postwar Japan

The purpose of this study is to trace the Japan’s economic diplomacy in the postwar era. It has been Japan’s national policy to place emphasis on trade due to the lack of natural resources since the Meiji era. The Bretton-woods system and the GATT, which had been estabilished by the initiatives of the US, has been an optional international economic environments for Japan to pursue economic development. Japan, utilizing this free trade environment, activity purpsued industrial policy to catch up with the West. The postwar Japan’s industrial policy was to improve her industrial competitiveness, while slowing down the pace of import liberalization. Due to the success of industrial policy, Janpan’s market share has been continually rising in the areas of various industrial products such as electronics, machine, steel, automobile, and computer chips, and accordingly trade conflicts between Japan and other major industrial countries have been continually occurring. The Japan’s economic diplomacy in the 1950s and 1960s was to aim at returning to international economic order and in the 1970s and after, was to place emphasis on resolving economic conflicts among advanced industrial nations.