DETERMINANTS AND PROCESS OF FOREIGN POLICY-MAKING IN JAPAN

Introduction

I. Historical Background of Foreign Policy-Making in Japan

1. Brief Survey

2. Influence Exercised by the Military

3. Relative Decline of Prime Minister’s Spheres of Competence

4. The Role of the Middle Echelon of the Military

II. The Basic Diplomatic Goals of Modem Japan

III. Determinants in the Foreign Policy of Modern Japan

1. Individual Factors of Policy-Makers

2. Geopolitical Factors

3. Domestic Political Factors

4. Social and Economic Factors

5. International Environmental Factors (Security and Military Factors)

6. National Character

IV. The Foreign Policy-Making Process and Machinery of Modem Japan

1. Changes in the Policy-Making Machinery

2. The Appearance of Consensus-Building Model

3. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Bureaucratic Machinery

4. The Liberal Democratic Party and Faction Politics

5. The Financial Circles (Associations and Major Enterprises)