Japan’s Rise as a Regional and Global Power, 2013-2023

Gilbert Rozman is the Emeritus Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, USA, and Editor-in-chief of the Asan Forum. Brad Glosserman is Deputy Director of and Visiting Professor at the Center for Rule-making Strategies, Tama University, and Senior Adviser at Pacific Forum, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

1. Introduction Part 1: Chronology 2. Launching the Big Shift in Japanese Strategic Thinking toward the Indo-Pacific, 2013-2016 3. Advancing Japanese Strategic Thinking toward the Indo-Pacific, 2017-2019 4. Realizing Japan’s Fulsome Embrace of Bipolarity, 2020-2022 Part 2: Regionalism 5. Tracking the Swings in a ‘Virtual Alliance’: Japan’s Policy toward the Korean Peninsula over a Decade 6. Southeast Asia Tests the Allure of Japan’s Global Vision 7. Tracking the Pathway to a ‘Quasi-Alliance’: Japan’s Policy toward Australia, 2013-2022 Part 3: Beyond Regionalism 8. Japan and Europe: A Marriage of Convenience Matures 9. Japan’s Economic Turn to Europe 10. The Impact of the Ukraine War: Japan’s Thinking on Russia, China, and India in 2023