What is Japan’s main objectives on foreign policy?

Among Japan’s many objectives, two have been over-arching throughout the postwar period: Promoting Economic Growth and Prosperity and Ensuring National Security These objectives hardly make Japan unique because almost all nations share these objectives, however what makes Japan somewhat unique is the broad strategy its leaders have adopted to achieve these objectives: to concentrate national energies on expanding foreign markets for Japanese exports while protecting Japanese industries against foreign competition and gaining control over high-value added technologies critical to Japanese industrial competitiveness; and to minimize military expenditures while relying on the United States to provide Japan’s external security. The global competition between the United States and Soviet Union would make Japan essential to U.S. global strategy and hence that the United States could be counted on to help promote Japanese economic development; That the same competition would ensure a major U.S. military role in Japan’s defense, and that hence Japan could make do with a relatively minimal defense effort; And that the world more broadly would “allow” Japan to concentrate on its own economic welfare.

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