From the middle of the 1970s, an increasing amount of scholarly analysis centred around the concept of leadership in international relations at a time when US post-Second World War leadership began to decline. As a major beneficiary of this decline, Japan assumed the mantle of a replacement in the burgeoning field devoted to the study of changes in the international political economy. A major problem became the way in which the study of leadership in international relations became hostage to the singular example of the United States. The conflation between leadership on the one hand, with US interests and responsibilities on the other, rendered much of the analysis flawed. The growing disparities between the supply of international public goods and narrowly conceived US foreign policy interests undermined the overall study of international leadership. Japan, as the country during the 1980s perceived most likely to supplant the US as the largest and most influential capitalist economy, became the centre of interest in this field. This thesis seeks to more comprehensively measure and analyse Japanese leadership in a more contextual and thorough means through the comparative use of case studies between 1960 and 2000. Through noting the differences in country and regional reactions to Japanese foreign policy, this study demonstrates that leadership perceptions are more often than not driven by national self interest rather than an ideal type of responsible leadership.

One of the elements that have often been neglected in the study of foreign policy is the role of norms and ideas. While human rights standards were formalized and became to be recognized as an international norm, it is still not clear whether or how human rights affect the foreign policy of specific states. In the case of Japan, its foreign policy is often characterized by hesitance to take decisive action for human rights and its dictation by economic interest. In this paper the influnece of human rights on Japanese foreign policy is examined through the study of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Japanese politics, as new political actors that speak for the norm of international human rights in Japanese politics. Japanese NGOs have achieved a dramatic development in the 1980s and 1990s, and today they are recognized as important entities in Japanese society. NGOs adopt various strategies and tactics to influnence Japan s decision making in foreign policy to challenge the political environment that consists of Japan s hesitance in the area of human rights and the strong influence of the business sector. Case studies examine active NGOs networks in Japan that work for human rights and democracy in East Timor and Burma and include an in-depth analysis of their operation styles, foci, and organizations. / Master of Arts

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de observar as alterações da Doutrina Yoshida como norteadora do posicionamento internacional do Japão no início do século XXI. Para isso, abordaremos a relevância que o Leste Asiático tem para a delimitação das ameaças e como a lógica regional influencia diretamente a atuação do país, principalmente quanto aos temas de segurança. Utilizar-se-á a teoria dos complexos regionais de segurança para compreender a forma de inserção internacional do Japão, bem como embasar o aspecto de instabilidade que levaram às alterações da Doutrina Yoshida. Dentre as principais ameaças ao país, destacamos a relação sino-japonesa e as disputas nas gray zones, bem como a nuclearização norte-coreana. A aliança com os EUA e outros países do entorno regional também serão analisadas a fim de corroborar com a atuação internacional do Japão. Abordaremos também como a criação da Estratégia Nacional de Segurança japonesa e o pacifismo proativo complementam os fundamentos da Doutrina Yoshida na manutenção dos interesses nacionais do país perante as crescentes instabilidades do entorno asiático. / This paper aims to observe the changes of the Yoshida Doctrine as the guideline of Japans international performance in the beginning of the 21st century. In order to do it, we will focus on the threats of East Asia region as well as the relevance of the regional logic and how it directly influences the country\'s performance, especially regarding security issues. The theory of regional security complexes is used to understand Japan\'s international insertion, as well as to base the instability aspect that led to the changes in the Yoshida Doctrine. Among the main threats to the country, we highlight the Sino-Japanese relationship and the disputes in the gray zones, besides the North Korean nuclear program. The US alliance, as other regional countries alliances will also be analyzed in order to corroborate with the international performance of Japan. We will also address how the creation of the Japanese National Security Strategy and proactive pacifism complement the fundamentals principles of the Yoshida Doctrine in order to maintain the countrys interests in the growing instability of the Asian environment.

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de observar as alterações da Doutrina Yoshida como norteadora do posicionamento internacional do Japão no início do século XXI. Para isso, abordaremos a relevância que o Leste Asiático tem para a delimitação das ameaças e como a lógica regional influencia diretamente a atuação do país, principalmente quanto aos temas de segurança. Utilizar-se-á a teoria dos complexos regionais de segurança para compreender a forma de inserção internacional do Japão, bem como embasar o aspecto de instabilidade que levaram às alterações da Doutrina Yoshida. Dentre as principais ameaças ao país, destacamos a relação sino-japonesa e as disputas nas gray zones, bem como a nuclearização norte-coreana. A aliança com os EUA e outros países do entorno regional também serão analisadas a fim de corroborar com a atuação internacional do Japão. Abordaremos também como a criação da Estratégia Nacional de Segurança japonesa e o pacifismo proativo complementam os fundamentos da Doutrina Yoshida na manutenção dos interesses nacionais do país perante as crescentes instabilidades do entorno asiático. / This paper aims to observe the changes of the Yoshida Doctrine as the guideline of Japans international performance in the beginning of the 21st century. In order to do it, we will focus on the threats of East Asia region as well as the relevance of the regional logic and how it directly influences the country\'s performance, especially regarding security issues. The theory of regional security complexes is used to understand Japan\'s international insertion, as well as to base the instability aspect that led to the changes in the Yoshida Doctrine. Among the main threats to the country, we highlight the Sino-Japanese relationship and the disputes in the gray zones, besides the North Korean nuclear program. The US alliance, as other regional countries alliances will also be analyzed in order to corroborate with the international performance of Japan. We will also address how the creation of the Japanese National Security Strategy and proactive pacifism complement the fundamentals principles of the Yoshida Doctrine in order to maintain the countrys interests in the growing instability of the Asian environment.

This diploma thesis attempts to provide an analysis of the human rights discourse in Japan and Japanese foreign policy. The author analyses the most important current issues (falling under the category of first-generation human rights) including: Korean minority issue, discrimination against persons of burakumin origin, gender issue and the topic of comfort women. In the second part of the thesis, the author explores the human rights discourse in the foreign policy of Japan. With the help of his research conducted in 2013 in Tokyo among diplomats, academics and NGO representatives, he examines three possible approaches to explain the current state of affairs: a national interests approach, a constructivist approach (cultural conditionality) and a policy-making approach (taking into account the role of intrastate actors).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:48:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juliano Akira de Souza Aragusuku.pdf: 1165422 bytes, checksum: 64ca26eb0f96f14e7ecb53dee11d631d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-11 / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo / Japan is one of the main actors at the International System, with expressive capacity in the economic dimension and low expression in the strategic and political dimensions. Thus, Japan emphasized its performance in the international scene through the economic way, being distinguished, until the present moment, as one of the main actors in the international cooperation for development disbursing Official Assistance for Development (ODA). However, it would be ingenuous to assume that the supply of assistance to the developing countries occurs in reason of altruistic positions. Therefore, the objective is to analyze how the ODA is inserted in the context of the Japanese foreign policy. Initially we will evaluate the theoretical explanations developed in the field of the International Relations on the developed countries‟ aid disburses, emphasizing the case of Japan. Thus, we will seek to identify the motivations that support the Japanese ODA, using an empirical research. It is intended, finally, the comprehension about the Japanese uses of ODA to promote its interests, marking its position in the game of the international relations / O Japão é um dos principais atores do Sistema Internacional, com expressiva capacidade na dimensão econômica e baixa expressão nas dimensões política e estratégica. Destarte, o Japão enfatizou sua atuação no cenário internacional por meio da via econômica, destacando-se, até o presente momento, como um dos principais atores na cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento por intermédio dos mecanismos de Assistência Oficial para o Desenvolvimento (ODA). No entanto, seria ingênuo supor que o fornecimento de assistência aos países em desenvolvimento ocorre em razão de posturas altruístas. Dessa forma, o objetivo deste trabalho consiste em analisar como a ODA se insere no contexto da política externa japonesa no período de 2003 a 2008. Inicialmente serão avaliadas as explicações teóricas desenvolvidas no campo das Relações Internacionais para o fornecimento de ajuda por parte de países desenvolvidos, dando-se ênfase ao caso do Japão. Em seguida, procurar-se-á identificar as motivações que sustentam a oferta de ODA por parte do Japão, tomando por base uma pesquisa empírica. Pretende-se, por fim, o entendimento de como o Japão utiliza a ODA para promover seus interesses e/ou marcar suas posições no jogo das relações internacionais

本論文在探究日本對中外交政策決策模式的體制變革，過去日本外交主要是受到美國外壓影響，外務省相對保持獨立性，而內閣官邸則受限於人員編制與派閥牽制，使得功能受限。2001年橋本行改實施後，大幅擴增了內閣府的人員編制，使得官邸主導外交成為可能，小泉純一郎善用了體制變革，形成以內閣府為中心展開對中外交的同時，日中關係卻因為其堅持參拜靖國神社陷入了僵局，2005年正值日中關係低盪時，小泉與胡錦濤開啟了第一次總合政策對話(戰略對話)，2006年安倍晉三上任後便以此平台為基礎，成功訪問中國，呼籲日中建立戰略互惠關係，強化兩國在政治、經濟層面的合作，雙方並在2008年福田時代簽訂了確立日中戰略互惠關係的政治文件，日中戰略互惠關係的架構也延續到民主黨政權的對中外交政策。本文以外交政策分析為出發點，嘗試藉由日中戰略互惠關係的案例，來了解日本外交決策模式中各行為者所扮演的角色。