Japan needs its own grand view and strategy based upon a broad and long-term perspective, particularly at a time when the world faces profound strategic reorientation. Prewar Japan's disastrous failure was caused because it lacked such a grand view and strategy. We cannot repeat it.Japan's national strategy must be comprehensive in realizing Japan's consensus national goal to achieve Japan's peace and prosperity. And it must maximize, in totality, the various "national interests" that sometimes conflict with one another.In this national strategy, our policy toward China occupies an importan…READ FULL ARTICLE