Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific aims to provide a broadened framework for examining Japan''s foreign policy making by looking at conversion and diversion of interests among Japanese and American policy actors. These include governmental and non-governmental as well as domestic and transnational actors. Utilizing this theoretical framework, the contributors examine the role of U.S. pressure and its interaction with Japan''s domestic and Japan-based transnational actors'' interests through geographically or thematically focused case studies from Asia and the Pacific regions.