But how could that have had an impact on Japanese foreign policy?

It's not a bad metaphor for the story of Japanese economic policy in recent years.

Over all, economic imperatives continue to drive Japanese foreign policy.

This passivity is at the very core of Japanese foreign policy.

The keiretsu have great influence on Japanese industrial and economic policy.

The talks were a telling indicator of how much influence private industry has in shaping Japanese foreign policy.

Japanese expansionist policies were leading to direct confrontation with the West.

"How to influence Japanese policy is the big problem, since the leadership is now completely paralyzed."

Not many people realize that in some ways Japanese economic policy responded quite effectively to a sustained slump.

Though the security treaty was the subject of violent street protests in 1960, it has since come to be the fabric underlying Japanese foreign policy.