La politique étrangère du Japon depuis Meiji : essai d'interprétation

Japan's Foreign Policy Since the Meiji Era : an Attempt of Interpretation, by Jean-Marie Bouissou Joining the modem world during the Meiji era (1868-1912), Japan has still not found its real place within the international community. At first having failed in its attempts to establish in Asia its own imperial dominion, and having still failed to transform its tremendous economie efficiency into an equivalent political power, and finally not enjoying its rehabilitation in the Asian community till the very beginning of the 1990s, Japan seems to have been endowed only recently with a global and coherent vision in foreign policy. This vision today tries to impose the image of a strong Japan, capable of bringing peace, prosperity and safety to an Asia Pacific area still in the grip of turbulences, while playing its own part in a process of globalization largely dominated by the United State.Bouissou. La politique étrangère du Japon depuis Meiji : essai d'interprétation. In: Politique étrangère, n°3-4 - 2000 - 65ᵉannée. pp. 787-798