Abstract
Insisting that Japan is a great power, as Prime Minister Abe and others have, sets Tokyo up for failure by setting unrealistic and unrealizable standards. Accepting its limits and recalibrating its ambitions would permit Japan to be assessed according to its own criteria: as what might be called a responsible, problem-solvingor postmodernmiddle power.
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