一、引子 日本贸易战略在过去十年中最显著的趋势之一很不幸地遭到了大多数观察家的无意忽视或有意掩盖。一方面这是由于学术界和媒体都把注意力集中在日本经济混乱的阴影或其政局的频繁变更之上,而更重要的是因为日本政府至今仍特意地对此事保持低调。 对于这一新兴战略,其核心并不是我们常说的双边争端解决机制与多边争端解决机制的 I. Introduction One of the most significant trends in Japan’s trade strategy in the past decade has unfortunately been unintentionally overlooked or deliberately concealed by most observers. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that both academics and the media have focused their attention on the shadows of Japan’s economic turmoil or the frequent changes in its political situation. What is more important is that the Japanese government still deliberately keeps a low profile on this issue. At the core of this emerging strategy is not what we often say, bilateral dispute settlement mechanisms and multilateral dispute settlement mechanisms