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By Yoichiro Sato, Keiko Hirata

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This edited quantity places forth a theoretically and empirically rigorous research of eastern international policy.  It explains the effect of norms on Japan’s international coverage habit, drawing on 3 significant paradigms of diplomacy scholarship—constructivism, realism, and liberalism. via 9 case stories on Japan’s safety, financial, and environmental regulations, this booklet examines how norms do or don't consultant jap international coverage and the way they have interaction with pursuits and tool. In doing so, this booklet explores even if the rationalist and constructivist faculties of idea are very likely complementary or at the same time exclusive. 

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Certainly not, or at least not to the degree that postwar Japan or Germany have been. The question then is: Why does a defeat in a major war make some countries antimilitarist but not others? This leads us to expect that a historical experience alone is insufficient to account for the kind of pacifism that emerged in postwar Japan and Germany. To be fair, Berger acknowledges structural factors. S. S. S. security guarantee, are inconclusive, his discussion on domestic politics raises a question about the cultural arguments he makes: If there were people in Japan calling for a larger and more autonomous defense policy, why did their view not prevail?

The norm entrepreneurs were not always motivated by material interests—as rationalists would argue—but were certainly driven by humanitarian concerns for landmine victims. However, I do not support the argument that rationalist and constructivist views of norms are mutually exclusive. Many international relations scholars have drawn a distinct line between rationalism (in the form of neorealism and neoliberalism) and constructivism, claiming that the former emphasizes the rational choices of actors and the latter the social construction of identity.

27. Yonosuke Nagai, Heiwa no Daisho [Price for Peace] (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1967); Mike M. Mochizuki, “Japan’s Search for Strategy,” International Security 8 (1983/1984): 152–179; Kenneth B. Pyle, The Japanese Question: Power and the Purpose in a New Era (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1992), chapters 3 and 4; Andrew Oros, “The Political Origins of Japan’s Domestic Antimilitarist Identity,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, March 24–27, 2002.

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