Japanese Culture And The Evolution Of Postwar Japanese Diplomacy

With the coming of the era of globalization and the era of the knowledge andeconomy, the role of culture has become increasingly prominent. The friction, collision,exchange and integration between different cultures,different races and differentcivilizations are the significant feature of this era. The clash of civilizations and culturehas not only gone through all fields of the modern era, but also increasingly become anew topic of international political studies. In the study of international politics,today’sculture ideas are different from the inverse of political ideology during the Cold Warperiod.Cultural conflict is reflected in the aspects of values identity and other spirit andis a kind of collision and game of being potential in people’s minds and subconsciousawareness, but this difference directly affects people’s way of thinking and the changeof behavior patterns.If it is up to the national level,that is the orientation differencesbetween the actors and the different diplomatic options on the national decision-makingbeing affected and restricted.With the culture perspective, the paper has demonstrated the cultural factors ofJapanese postwar diplomacy and its’ impact and effect on Japanese diplomacy and hasanalyzed the cultural variables.The paper is divided into three chapters and theintroduction part mainly narrates the research significance,research methods, innovationand research status at home and abroad.The first chapter of this thesis is to support the theoretical overview and to narratethe Japanese culture. Firstly, the author of the paper explains the concept of the macroframework and systematically analyzes the concept of culture while relating the originof Japanese culture in order to achieve nexus and further analyzing the cultural factors ofpostwar Japanese diplomacy. This chapter relates the sources of cultural factors ofJapanese diplomacy,its’efficacy and role. Meanwhile, the chapter relates the relationsbetween the diplomacy and culture, demonstrates how the culture influences and effectson the diplomacyThe second chapter is the focus of this paper which mainly through relating,analyzes the cultural factors of the process of foreign policy formulated by Japan afterWorld War II,demonstrates the Japanese diplomacy being influenced and effected by Japanese culture, particularly analyzes the culture efficacy for realistic cases of Japaneseforeign policy and Japanese diplomatic choices within the early and interim postwarperiod and after Cold War period and implements all-round, multi-angle, in-depthanalysis of how Japanese culture factors influence the postwar Japanese foreign policy onthe aspect of the thoughts, ideas and spirit and analyzes how the cultural factorsrestrict the basic trend of Japanese postwar diplomacy.The third chapter mainly relates the new problems and the new changes arising fromthe international relations and the international pattern. Accordingly,Japan adjustsits’foreign policy. Especially coming into the21st century, as to the factors of ideology,the territorial dispute and China ’s rise, the relationship between China and Japan hasfallen into the friction, disagreements, and the plight of the lack of mutual trust.Thechapter demonstrates that the reasons which have caused the dilemma betweenSino-Japanese relations is the adjustment and the new changes of Japan.But this newchanges have originated from Japanese culture factors and on the basis of this the effectof cultural factors in the present Japanese diplomacy is analyzed and furtherevaluated.Through demonstrating, the chapter analyses that the friction anddisagreement between China and Japan mainly originates from inferiority factors ofJapanese culture which results in the rampant right-wing forces and the rising ofmilitarism.Especially the “values diplomacy” principle proposed by Abe has deepened thefriction and disagreement between Sino-Japanese relations. With forward-lookingperspective this chapter demonstrates the tentative plan of constructing the21st centurynew Sino-Japanese relations among major powers and taking diplomacy as the baseaxis,taking the cultural exchanges,the cultural integration and the mutual recognition ofculture as the means to explore the cultural similarities between the two countries so as toresolve cultural differences, and seeking the common ground between the two countriesto promote the recognition of each other’s values jointly in order to achieve theconstruction of new great-power relations between China and Japan.