Japan and the Future

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Though Eisaku Sato has strongly supported resistance against Communism in Southeast Asia, and the Japanese people and the world eagerly await indications of a bolder foreign policy, it seems reasonable to conclude that no tremendous change in Japan’s world outlook will come for almost a decade. These offshore islands of Asia are too deeply involved in the processes of economic transformation to turn, at this point, to political and military enterprises such as now engage the attentions and energies of the American people. Yet one can see the potential of great power operations by the mid-1970s.

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Though Eisaku Sato has strongly supported resistance against Communism in Southeast Asia, and the Japanese people and the world eagerly await indications of a bolder foreign policy, it seems reasonable to conclude that no tremendous change in Japan’s world outlook will come for almost a decade. These offshore islands of Asia are too deeply involved in the processes of economic transformation to turn, at this point, to political and military enterprises such as now engage the attentions and energies of the American people. Yet one can see the potential of great power operations by the mid-1970s.