Research on Japanese current foreign policy suffers from neglect of the influence of domestic factors on Japan's decisions and behaviour in world politics. The question of the nature of Japanese foreign policy needs to go beyond the exogenous cause of state behaviour in international affairs. The object of inquiry of this thesis is the influence of social factors on the orientation of Japan's foreign policy. The central concern is: "how" and "why" Japan behaves as it does in world affairs. This examination addresses the question of the interaction of endogenous and exogenous factors on the foreign economic policy of Japan, and postulates that Japanese national identity, national interests, and role conceptions, are the essence of Japan's defensive attitudes in world affairs on the one hand, and that Japanese behavioural patterns in international relations are in conformity with the ends of Japan's foreign policy: economic security and growth under the Japan-US alliance. Japanese response to US pressure and trade adjustment to the changing framework of the world economy from the 1980s up to the present give a relevant outlook to the defensive character of Japan's foreign policy. For Japanese policy-makers, the stability of Japan's economic performance in the world economy, its pacifist attitude in world affairs, its trade relations with the United States, and its protectorate status as a result of the Japan-US Security Treaty, are beyond question.

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Wong, Yat Yu. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-176). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Chapter Chapter One: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Statement of Purpose --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Literature Review --- p.6 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Identity and perceptions of “the other´ح / Chapter 1.2.2 --- National identity / Chapter 1.2.3 --- How do Japanese and Chinese people view each other? / Chapter 1.2.4 --- Chinese and Japanese national identity / Chapter 1.2.5 --- Identity and foreign experiences among overseas Chinese and Japanese / Chapter 1.3 --- Methodology --- p.26 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- "Beijing, China and Kyoto, Japan as field sites" / Chapter 1.3.2 --- Semi-structured interviews / Chapter 1.3.3 --- Written sources / Chapter 1.3.4 --- Reflexivity of the researcher / Chapter 1.3.5 --- Limitations of the Research Methods / Chapter 1.4 --- Structure of the Thesis --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Perceptions of “the Other´ح in the Japanese and Chinese Media --- p.38 / Chapter 2.1 --- Images of “the Other´ح in Japanese and Chinese Popular Books --- p.41 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Heavy focus on negative images of China and Chinese people in Japanese popular books / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Diverse views of Japan and Japanese people in Chinese popular books / Chapter 2.2 --- Reporting “the Other´ح in Japanese and Chinese Newspapers --- p.55 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Background of Japanese and Chinese newspapers / Chapter 2.2.2 --- The poisoned dumpling incident in Japanese and Chinese newspapers / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Jun'ichiro Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine in Japanese and Chinese newspapers / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Stereotypes and Disappointments: Chinese Students´ة Perceptions of Japan and Japanese People --- p.69 / Chapter 3.1 --- Initial Views of Japan --- p.72 / Chapter 3.2 --- "Stereotypes of Japanese Characteristics: Strict, Ambiguous and Distant" --- p.75 / Chapter 3.3 --- Stereotypes of Japanese Views of China and Chinese People --- p.81 / Chapter 3.4 --- Unpleasant Part-time Jobs --- p.84 / Chapter 3.5 --- Stressful Scholarship System --- p.86 / Chapter Chapter Four: --- Improved Impressions and Reinforced Stereotypes: Japanese Students' Perceptions of China and Chinese People --- p.92 / Chapter 4.1 --- Initial Views of China and Chinese People / Chapter 4.2 --- Reasons to Go to China --- p.100 / Chapter 4.3 --- Improved Impressions: Friendships with Chinese People --- p.101 / Chapter 4.4 --- Different Communication Styles --- p.105 / Chapter 4.5 --- Reinforced Stereotypes --- p.110 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- The Chinese government and people / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Uncivilized Chinese general public / Chapter 4.5.3 --- A good Chinese person / Chapter Chapter Five: --- Perceptions of Media and “the Other´ح among Chinese and Japanese Students --- p.119 / Chapter 5.1 --- Exaggerations and Unreliability: The Japanese Media in the Eyes of Chinese Students --- p.120 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Exaggerations by the Japanese media: “They only report negative things!´ح / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Unreliability of the Japanese media / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Comparing the Japanese and Chinese media: Different styles of reporting news / Chapter 5.1.4 --- Comparing the Japanese and Chinese media: Different attitudes in reporting “the other´ح / Chapter 5.1.5 --- Relations between the Japanese media and the general public / Chapter 5.2 --- Lack of Freedom and Lack of Reality: Chinese Media in the Eyes of Japanese --- p.132 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Limited information and choices from the Chinese media / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Misleading of audiences by the Chinese media / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Comparing the Chinese and Japanese media / Chapter 5.2.4 --- Relations between the Chinese media and the general public / Chapter 5.3 --- Discussion --- p.142 / Chapter Chapter Six: --- Conclusion --- p.146 / Chapter 6.1 --- Chapter Summaries --- p..146 / Chapter 6.2 --- National Identity among the Japanese and Chinese Students --- p..149 / Chapter 6.3 --- "Perceptions of “the Other,´ح Media Discourses and Cultural Power Relations between Japan and China" --- p..153 / Chapter 6.4 --- Value of the Study --- p.156 / Appendices --- p.160 / Bibliography --- p.164