What Posture Should Japan Take in its Overseas Expansion?

When we speak of Japanese overseas expansion, we are concerned with the expansion of Japanese businesses into Asia and with the emigration of the Japanese into this region for economic reasons. But any discussion of this subject must go beyond merely examining problems of business or >u>homo economicus>/u>. We have to ask such broad questions as: What sort of a relation should Japan maintain with other Asian countries? In what form should Japan be integrated into the economy of Asia? Or, conversely, should Japan move on a course entirely unrelated to Asia and keep contacts in some kind of power relationship with Asia from outside rather than from inside?