Postwar Japan

Michael J. Green is senior vice president for Asia and Japan Chair at Center for Strategic and International Studies and chair in modern and contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy at Georgetown University.Zack Cooper is a fellow with the Asia team at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Dr. Cooper previously served in the Pentagon and White House, and received his PhD in security studies from Princeton University.

• Introduction, Michael J. GreenPart I. Japan’s Postwar Security Policies1. What Is the Strengthened Japan-U.S. Alliance For? Defending and Advancing the Liberal World Order, Kazuya Sakamoto2. The Case for an Alternative Strategy for Japan: Beyond the Article 9–Alliance Regime, Yoshihide SoeyaPart II. Japan’s Postwar Economic Policies3. Japan’s Economy and Policy in a Global Context: Postwar Experience and Prospectsfor the Twenty-First Century, Jun Saito4. Will the Sun Also Rise? Five Growth Strategies for Japan, Yoko TakedaPart III. Japan’s Postwar Institutional and Development Policies5. Multilateralism Recalibrated: Japan’s Engagement in Institution Building in the Past 70 Years and Beyond, Akiko Fukushima6. Development Assistance for Inclusive Growth: A Field for Japan-U.S. Cooperation?, Akiko ImaiIndexAbout the Editors and AuthorsAbout CSIS

Marvellously accessible and digestible edited volume on Japan’s economic and security developments.... [T]he book is a good read.