Economic Diplomacy And Post-war Japan’s Economic Rise (1945-1970)

Economic diplomacy has a pivotal position in Japan’s post-war foreign affairs.Japan is the first country to introduce economic diplomatic policy after the World WarII, and Japan’s economic diplomacy promotes the rapid development of its post-wareconomy. Economic diplomacy has played an important role in Japan’s economic riseprocess.After Japan’s defeat, the economy is in a state of collapse. Japan’s diplomaticactivities are limited because of its occupation in the U.S. In order to overcome theeconomic crisis, revive its economy, Japan has to put the economic problems priory tosolve in the limited diplomatic activities, which helps to bring about the practice ofeconomic diplomacy. U.S put the restrictions on Japan’s post-war developmentdirection, which makes Japan lost the space of military diplomacy, the small space ofpolitical diplomacy to maneuver, in turn, the environment of economic diplomacy isrelatively loose. In the post-war, international economic development is towards thedirection of the interdependent, which promotes the development of Japan’s economicdiplomacy. After the war, Japan has reopened the foreign economic relations at firstthrough the economic diplomacy, opened the trade relations with Southeast-Asiancountries and joined the general agreement on tariffs and trade as well as theinternational monetary fund and other international economic organizations. On thisbasis, Japan continues to promote the economic diplomacy, develop economicrelations with the other countries, and build up a wide range of economic relationshipwith the others. Economic diplomacy creates a favorable external environment andbroad space for Japan’s economic development in the post-war, it not only attain theraw material and energy for industrial product, also solve markets problems about theexport of goods and capital. While it effectively solves all kinds of internationaleconomic friction and disputes, as well as it has introduced the advanced productiontechnology, provides the technical support for Japan’s economic development.Economic diplomacy for Japan wins the huge economic interests, and promotes therapid rise for Japan’s economy in the post-war.Viewing on relationship between Japan’s economic diplomacy and its economicrise in the post war is to fully understand the important effect of economic diplomacyJapan’s postwar economic rise process, summarize the reasons for the success of Japan’s post-war economic diplomacy, absorb and draw lessons from the successfulexperience of Japan’s post-war economic diplomacy. Meanwhile, Japan’s economicdiplomacy provides beneficial historical enlightenment for China to achieve thepeaceful rise.