Chapter Introduction: powerful or powerless? The puzzle of Japanese power / GUIBOURG DELAMOTTE
part Part I Japan's power strategy on the international scene
chapter 1 The power of Japan and its 'Grand Strategy' / KANEHARA NOBUKATSU
chapter 2 Contemporary Japan's power within international financial organisations / YAGO KAZUHIKO
chapter 3 Exercising power within an international organisation: Japan's diplomacy toward the United Nations reform in the 1990s and 2000s / AKIYAMA NOBUMASA
part Part II The challenges Japan faces
chapter 4 'Proactive contribution to peace' in context: the long path to normalisation / KITAOKA SHIN . ICHI
chapter 5 The U.S.-Japan Alliance: enhancer or brake on Japan's power? / KAMIYA MATAKE
chapter 6 Japan's economic strengths and weaknesses / TADOKORO MASAYUKI
part Part III Internal politics as a source of weakness
chapter 7 How History impacts Japan's image and interests, and what to do about it / YAMAMOTO YOSHINOBU
chapter 8 From weak prime minister to proactive prime minister: domestic political conditions and their transformations / NONAKA NAOTO
chapter 9 Politics should end at the water's edge: for a national security policy beyond party lines / NAGASHIMA AKIHISA, M P AND SASAKI KENJI.