What Are The Negative Effects Of Japan's Soft Power

201311475 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DIPLOMACY

BA POLITICAL SCIENCE

This paper aim to discuss how Japan used its soft power to turn its negative impact of the WWII imperialist image into something positive, and its soft power as part of its diplomatic machinery

Soft power is important in international relations. It can enhance the country’s influence and indirectly its economic and political power. (Cortazzi, 2015)Joseph Nye, Jr. defined power like the weather. Everyone depends on it and talks about it, but few understand it. Power is the capacity to do things. Soft power according to Joseph Nye Jr. rests on the ability to shape the preferences of others. There are three main sources of soft power these are the culture, political values

During the war, several young soldiers mobilized into Japanese army that came from the rural areas where the effects of depression were devastating and the poverty was widespread. They commit themselves into the military effort to expand Japanese territory to attain the economic security. After the Japan ended experiencing the depression brought by the world war, internationally, that was the time of free trade. The great powers protected their economic rights within their colonies and spheres of influences, but they also sought to bolster their slump economies with dumping good high tariffs and other trade manipulation. The Japan, with few and limited resources copy this pattern by the great powers. They used cutthroat trade practices to sell textile and other industrial goods in East Asia and US markets. They also developed some raw materials in the colonies that they established in Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria. Japan also uses high tariffs to restrict and limit imports of Europe and American products. (Educators, 2009). By this, Japan used its soft power by somehow imitating the pattern of the great powers in order for them to boost their economies, they adopted the policies of the great powers in implementing the rules on their products, they used it for them to increase their economy without using force or

A sigh relief of the Japanese public accompanied the overwhelming positive global reception, since winning the 2020 games there had been some apprehension and concern about the soft elements of the Olympics. The organizers are worried that they might make a dull ceremonies because of the initiative of cool japan, but considering the extraordinary commercial success of the characters appeared in Rio, the anime characters commercials and others are distinctly Japanese yet universal in their appeal, so they can represent a sense of fun, hope, and good-naturedness which would best fit the Olympics. Another thing is that he gave a major good impression of cosplaying Marion of the Super Mario, it impressed the audiences, the Japanese performances in Rio shows that the public project can also work well to the private sector. Shinzo Abe described the soft power in the success of 2020 Olympics by the use of its pop culture by which there are numerous of fans that are open embracing such characters. (Easton, 2016). The Pop Culture Diplomacy which is used by Japan to its soft power in its diplomatic machinery, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs targeting to further apprehend and trust of Japan, is using pop-culture, in addition to their traditional arts and cultures, as it is the main tools for the cultural diplomacy. Amid young people, pop-culture such as manga and anime has been