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Introduction: powerful or powerless? The puzzle of Japanese power Guibourg Delamotte PART I Japan’s power strategy on the international scene  1.  The power of Japan and its 'Grand Strategy', Kanehara Nobukatsu  2. Contemporary Japan’s power within international financial organisations, Yago Kazuhiko  3. Exercising power within an international organisation: Japan’s diplomacy toward the United Nations reform in the 1990s and 2000s, Akiyama Nobumasa  PART II The challenges Japan faces 4.  'Proactive contribution to peace' in context: the long path to normalisation, Kitaoka Shin.ichi  5. The U.S.–Japan Alliance: enhancer or brake on Japan’s power?", Kamiya Matake  6.  Japan’s economic strength and weaknesses, Tadokoro Masayuki  PART III Internal politics as a source of weakness 7.  How History impacts Japan’s image and interests, and what to do about it, Yamamoto Yoshinobu 8.  From weak prime minister to proactive prime minister: domestic political conditions and their transformations, Nonaka Naoto  9. Politics should end at the water’s edge: for a national security policy beyond party lines, Nagashima Akihisa, MP and Sasaki Kenji