Contents -- List of Figures and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms and Terms -- 1 Introduction The Story of Japan after World War II -- The Catalyst for Change -- The Problem and the Questions -- The Literature -- Elite Interviews -- The Variables -- Objectives and Expected Significance of the Book -- Outline of the Book -- 2 The Legacy of the Occupation An "Abnormal" Foreign Policy -- Historical Background -- Japanese Foreign and Security Policy 1952-1990 -- 3 The Gulf War Requires Change -- The Gulf War and Japanese Foreign Policy -- The Peacekeeping Operations Law (PKO) -- Toward a Security Council Seat and Beyond -- 4 Theoretically Speaking Realism and Alternative Security -- Japanese Limitations -- Alternative Security -- The Theoretical Foundations of Foreign-Policy Restructuring -- Alternative Views of Japanese Security -- 5 Foreign-Policy Restructuring in Japan -- A Model of Foreign-Policy Restructuring -- Talking to the Policy Makers Themselves -- What Are the Foreign-Policy Makers Thinking? -- 6 Planning for Japan's Future Security -- Japan's National Security -- Abandonment -- Japan's Options -- Conclusion -- 7 The "Myth" of Gaiatsu How Japan Views Its Place in the World -- Adjusting to the Post-Cold War World -- Gaiatsu -- The "Myth" of Gaiatsu -- What Is Japan Doing? -- Conclusion -- 8 Triangulating Politics America, China, and Japan -- The China Question -- The Question of North Korea -- Japanese Policy: Action and Reaction -- Conclusion -- 9 Where Is Japan Going? -- The "Wide" View of Japanese Security -- Future Sources of Foreign Policy: The Diet -- Constitutional Reform: Potential for Revision -- The SDF in Japanese Foreign Policy -- World Leadership -- Japan's Limitations -- Japanese Hegemony? -- Japan's Future -- Suggestions for Foreign-Policy Normalization.

Implications for Hermann's Model: What Have We Learned? -- Concluding Observations -- Appendix A Partial List of Elites Interviewed -- Appendix B The Constitution of Japan, 3 November 1946 -- Preface -- Chapter I: The Emperor -- Chapter II: Renunciation of War -- Chapter III: Rights and Duties of the People -- Chapter IV: The Diet -- Chapter V: The Cabinet -- Chapter VI: Judiciary -- Chapter VII: Finance -- Chapter VIII: Local Self-Government -- Chapter IX: Amendments -- Chapter X: Supreme Law -- Chapter XI: Supplementary Provisions -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Notes -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- Bibliography -- Index.