This is a cutting-edge analysis of Japanese responses to globalization by leading Japanese scholars. It adopts a three dimensional structure, linking issues of politics/security and economy/business, at internal and external levels. It is a valuable contribution to explicating the meaning of the consequences of Japan's globalization.

TAKAHARA AKIO Professor of Modern East Asian Politics, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan KUDO AKIRA Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan SUGITA ATSUSHI Professor of Political Theory, Hôsei University, Japan SHIROYAMA HIDEAKI Associate Professor of Public Administration, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan ÔHASHI HIDEO Professor of Development Economics and East Asian Studies, Senshû University, Japan ARAMAKI KENJI Professor of International Economics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan FUJIWARA KIICHI Professor of International Politics for the Faculty of Law, the Graduate School for Law and Politics, and the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo, Japan TAKAHASHI SUSUMU Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan YAMAMOTO TAKEHIKO Professor of International Politics, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, Japan KIKKAWA TAKEO Professor of Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan TAKAHASHI YOSHIAKI Professor of Business Management and Comparative Management, Faculty of Commerce and Graduate School, Chûo University, Japan