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Japan Foreign Policy
Japan foreign policy toward the United States There are hundreds of states in the world, and each one of states has its own policy that they conducted within the country. However states will have to confront or associated with another states thus there must be foreign policy for a country that should be conducted toward the other country. A country might have a lot of different policy toward many others countries. A foreign policy is (Damerow 2009) “the relationships which central governments have with other countries, their central governments, and international organizations, both intergovernmental and non-governmental”. And two of the countries that their foreign policy has been experiencing with lots of changes toward one another are Japan and the United States. United States (Indexmundi 2011), is one of the most powerful countries in the world in many aspects including security and economics. United States is a country with fifty states and in third in term of population and area. Its government type is a strong democratic thus meaning that all the citizens of a nation together determine public policy, the actions of their state and the leader as well. The U.S. economy is the world 's largest national economy, with an estimated GDP of $14.1 trillion. Moreover, the United States has also been known for its strong and high technology military as well. The United States is country that has many relations with many countries, with a range of liberalism, realism, mercantilism and others according to the circumstances. As for social, the United States is a melting pot which has many kinds of races living in the country but its main religious is Christianity. Whereas, Japan is country with the government of constitutional monarchy, that has a parliamentary government. Also its economy has a GDP of (2011 est.) $5.855 trillion which pale into comparison with the United States. Japan is also known for its renowned fast and rapid growing technology and stable


References: lists Damerow. faculty. 2009. http://faculty.ucc.edu/egh-damerow/US%20Foreign%20Policy.htm (accessed April 7, 2012). Freeman, Robert. Common Dreams. August 6, 2006. http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0806-25.htm (accessed April 7, 2012). Indexmundi. July 12, 2011. http://www.indexmundi.com/ (accessed June 10, 2012). usembassy. n.d. http://aboutusa.japan.usembassy.gov/e/jusa-profile.html (accessed June 10, 2012).

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