The Vitality of Japan: Sources of National Strength and Weakness.

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Contributors - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART ONE: ISSUES IN ECONOMIC STRATEGY - Japan: The Course Ahead - Kenneth S.Courtis - The Yen's Role in World Financial Diplomacy: Should We Focus on Trade Flows or Investment Flows? - David D. Hale - The Japan Problem: Economic Challenge or Strategic Threat? - Robert Gilpin - PART TWO: ISSUES IN DOMESTIC POLITICS - The Need for Reform in Japanese Politics - J. A. A. Stockwin - The Emptiness of Affluence: Vitality, Embolism and Symbiosis in the Japanese Body Politic - Gavan McCormack - Organised Dependence: Politicians and Bureaucrats in Japan - E. B. Keehn - PART THREE: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ISSUES - Japan's Contributions to International Society: The Limits Imposed by Domestic Political Structures - David Arase - Japan and America in East Asia in the Wake of the Cold War: Drift and Immobilism amidst International Upheaval - Donald C. Hellmann - Domestic Constraints and Japan's Emerging International Role - Kent E. Calder - Missions, Mechanisms and Modalities of Fledgling Cooperative Regimes in the Pacific - Takashi Inoguchi - PART FOUR: SOCIAL ISSUES - Creativity without Diversity? The Anomalous Case of the Japanese University - Ivan P Hall - Socialisation and Social Vitality: A Psychocultural Perspective - Takeyuki Tsuda and George A. De Vos - Annex: Excerpts from the Discussions at the Conference - Introductory Remarks - General Considerations - Economic Vitality - Social and Cultural Vitality - Political Vitality - Future Vitality - Index