Abstract
The following master’s thesis Representations of China in Japan - Portrayals of China in the 2014 National Diet is a study of the rhetorical role that China inhabits within the discourse of the Japanese National Diet of mid-2014. A collection of statements divided into the topics defense and security issues, economy, and education were analyzed based on the main IR theories of realism, liberalism, and constructivism. The results suggest that the trend of a negative portrayal of China in the Japanese Diet discourse has not diminished since 2008 and may in fact have become more dominant.