Japan S Evolving Security Policy

Author : Kyoko Hatakeyama
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000366846

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Japan's Evolving Security Policy by Kyoko Hatakeyama Pdf

Japan has been expanding its military roles in the post-Cold War period. This book analyses the shift in Japan’s security policy by examining the collective ideas of political parties and the effect of an international norm. Starting with the analysis of the collective ideas held by political parties, this book delves into factors overlooked in existing literature, including the effects of domestic and international norms, as well as how an international norm is localised when a conflicting domestic norm already exists. The argument held throughout is that these factors play a primary role in framing Japan's security policy. Overall, three security areas are studied: Japan’s arms trade ban policy, Japan’s participation in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, and Japan’s enlarged military roles in international security. Close examination demonstrates that the weakening presence of the left since the mid-1990s and the localisation of an international norm encouraged Japan to broaden its military role. Providing a comprehensive picture of Japan’s evolving security policy, this book asserts that shifts have occurred in ways that do not violate the pacifist domestic norm. Japan's Evolving Security Policy will appeal to students and scholars of International Relations, Asian Politics, Asian Security Studies and Japanese Studies.

Author : Andrew Oros
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804770668

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Normalizing Japan by Andrew Oros Pdf

'Normalizing Japan' discusses the future direction Japan's military policies are likely to take by considering how policy has evolved since the Second World War, and what factors shaped this evolution.

Author : Paul Midford,Wilhelm Vosse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000174175

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New Directions in Japan’s Security by Paul Midford,Wilhelm Vosse Pdf

While the US-Japan alliance has strengthened since the end of the Cold War, Japan has, almost unnoticed, been building security ties with other partners, in the process reducing the centrality of the US in Japan’s security. This book explains why this is happening. Japan pursued security isolationism during the Cold War, but the US was the exception. Japan hosted US bases and held joint military exercises even while shunning contacts with other militaries. Japan also made an exception to its weapons export ban to allow exports to the US. Yet, since the end of the Cold War, Japan’s security has undergone a quiet transformation, moving away from a singular focus on the US as its sole security partner. Tokyo has begun diversifying its security ties. This book traces and explains this diversification. The country has initiated security dialogues with Asian neighbors, assumed a leadership role in promoting regional multilateral security cooperation, and begun building bilateral security ties with a range of partners, from Australia and India to the European Union. Japan has even lifted its ban on weapons exports and co-development with non-US partners. This edited volume explores this trend of decreasing US centrality alongside the continued, and perhaps even growing, security (inter) dependence with the US. New Directions in Japan’s Security is an essential resource for scholars focused on Japan’s national security. It will also interest on a wider basis those wishing to understand why Japan is developing non-American directions in its security strategy.

Author : Anthony DiFilippo
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0765638878

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The Challenges of the U. S. -Japan Military Arrangement by Anthony DiFilippo Pdf

This is an in-depth analysis of the U.S.-Japan security alliance and its implications for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. It moves away from the official line that the alliance is a vital aspect of Japan's security policy and introduces issues and arguments that are often overlooked: American security policy has failed to achieve its goals; Japan's interests are not fully served by the alliance; the alliance itself is a source of instability in the region; and the arrangement has placed constraints on Japan's own political development. The author measures current developments in U.S. foreign policy against Japan's role in the region and Japan's own political development. He assesses the consequences of the alliance for the current regional situation in Northeast Asia, looks at future policy options for Japan, and makes the case for a neutralist security policy.

Author : Anthony DiFilippo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317458050

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The Challenges of the US-Japan Military Arrangement: Competing Security Transitions in a Changing International Environment by Anthony DiFilippo Pdf

This is an in-depth analysis of the U.S.-Japan security alliance and its implications for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. It moves away from the official line that the alliance is a vital aspect of Japan's security policy and introduces issues and arguments that are often overlooked: American security policy has failed to achieve its goals; Japan's interests are not fully served by the alliance; the alliance itself is a source of instability in the region; and the arrangement has placed constraints on Japan's own political development. The author measures current developments in U.S. foreign policy against Japan's role in the region and Japan's own political development. He assesses the consequences of the alliance for the current regional situation in Northeast Asia, looks at future policy options for Japan, and makes the case for a neutralist security policy.

Author : Peter J. Katzenstein,Nobuo Okawara
Publisher : Cornell East Asia Series
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029966119

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Japan's National Security by Peter J. Katzenstein,Nobuo Okawara Pdf

Japan's National Security offers a detailed examination of Japan's distinctive security policy. It traces in considerable detail the evolution of Japan's approach to the economic, political and military dimensions of national structures of government as well as a particular set of relations between state and society. One of the noteworthy aspects of this book is its detailed attention to the transnational links between the Japanese and the American militaries. The book accords a special place of the interaction between the legal and social norms that have affected Japanese conceptions of national security since 1945. Japan's National Security offers an important, meticulously researched, and up-to-date perspective on the role that Japan is likely to play after the Cold War. Together with Defending the Japanese State, these two monographs analyze the structures and norms that are shaping Japan's policy on internal and national security. The specific focus is on governmental, state-society and transnational structures as well as the social and legal norms that affect the policies of Japan's police and self-defense forces.

Author : Andrew Lee Oros,Yuki Tatsumi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313381393

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Global Security Watch—Japan by Andrew Lee Oros,Yuki Tatsumi Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Japan's national security institutions and policy today, including a detailed discussion of Japan's regional security environment and its alliance with the United States in the context of the Democratic Party of Japan's rise to power in August 2009. 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the revision of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, making Japan one of the United States's longest and most important military allies. Over 40,000 US troops are based in Japan, as is the only U.S. aircraft carrier based outside the United States, the USS George Washington. Japan possesses one of the world's largest economies and strongest military forces, and as a result, its national security policies and institutions are highly significant—not just to America, but to the rest of the global community as well. This book provides an overview of Japan's transformation into one of the world's most capable military powers over the past 150 years. Particular attention is paid to developments in the past decade, such as the 2009 change in the controlling political party and Japan's responses to new global security threats.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : International relations
ISBN : 0860790649

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Adelphi Papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Keiji Nakatsuji
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000822076

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Japan's Security Policy by Keiji Nakatsuji Pdf

This book analyses Japan’s security policy after the Cold War and engages with the question of whether, since the Cold War ended, Japan has again become a global security player. The contributions to the book explore Japan’s security policy by providing a detailed overview of the evolution of Japan’s security policy after the Cold War, including the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and the Senkaku/Daioyu Islands dispute. It also reveals the preeminent security concerns of contemporary Japan by delving into regional security issues such as the Layered Security of Okinawa, the increasing nuclear threat from North Korea, and the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1995-6. The book culminates by discussing security in terms of the essential functions of energy, food, and human security, including an assessment of Japan’s energy policy since World War II and an assessment of the impact food security on Japan’s agriculture and trade. This book will be of interest to student and scholars of East Asian Politics, Security Studies and the International Relations of the Asia Pacific. It is also a valuable resource for diplomats and policymakers on Japan and East Asia.

Author : Renato De Castro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Internal security
ISBN : UOM:39015038210715

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Japan's Changing Security Policy and Defense Force Structure by Renato De Castro Pdf

Author : Andrew L. Oros
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231542593

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Japan’s Security Renaissance by Andrew L. Oros Pdf

For decades after World War II, Japan chose to focus on soft power and economic diplomacy alongside a close alliance with the United States, eschewing a potential leadership role in regional and global security. Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since the rise of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's military capabilities have resurged. In this analysis of Japan's changing military policy, Andrew L. Oros shows how a gradual awakening to new security challenges has culminated in the multifaceted "security renaissance" of the past decade. Despite openness to new approaches, however, three historical legacies—contested memories of the Pacific War and Imperial Japan, postwar anti-militarist convictions, and an unequal relationship with the United States—play an outsized role. In Japan's Security Renaissance Oros argues that Japan's future security policies will continue to be shaped by these legacies, which Japanese leaders have struggled to address. He argues that claims of rising nationalism in Japan are overstated, but there has been a discernable shift favoring the conservative Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party. Bringing together Japanese domestic politics with the broader geopolitical landscape of East Asia and the world, Japan's Security Renaissance provides guidance on this century's emerging international dynamics.

Author : Eiichi Katahara
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCSD:31822007933039

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Japan's Changing Political and Security Role by Eiichi Katahara Pdf

Author : Sharif M. Shuja
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000059026976

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Japan's Changing Security Policy by Sharif M. Shuja Pdf

Author : Christopher W. Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134634316

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Japan's Economic Power and Security by Christopher W. Hughes Pdf

Is Japan re-emerging as a normal, or even a great, military power in regional and global security affairs? This Adelphi Paper assesses the overall trajectory of Japan’s security policy over the last decade, and the impact of a changing Japanese military posture on the stability of East Asia. The paper examines Japan’s evolving security debate, set against the background of a shifting international environment and domestic policymaking system; the status of Japan’s national military capabilities and constitutional prohibitions; post-Cold War developments in the US Japan alliance; and Japan’s role in multilateral regional security dialogue, UN PKO, and US-led coalitions of the willing. It concludes that Japan is undoubtedly moving along the trajectory of becoming a more assertive military power, and that this trend has been accelerated post-9/11. Japan is unlikely, though, to channel its military power through greatly different frameworks than at present. Japan will opt for the enhanced, and probably inextricable, integration of its military capabilities into the US Japan alliance, rather than pursuing options for greater autonomy or multilateralism. Japan’s strengthened role as the defensive shield for the offensive sword of US power projection will only serve to bolster US military hegemony in East Asia and globally.

Author : Paul Midford,Wilhelm Vosse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1003007627

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New Directions in Japan's Security by Paul Midford,Wilhelm Vosse Pdf

"While the US-Japan alliance has strengthened since the end of the Cold War Japan has, almost unnoticed, been building security ties with other partners, in the process reducing the centrality of the US in Japan's security; this book explains why this is happening. Japan pursued security isolationism during the Cold War, but the US was the exception. Japan hosted US bases and held joint military exercises even while shunning contacts with other militaries. Japan also made an exception to its weapons export ban to allow exports to the US. Yet, since the end of the Cold War Japan's security has undergone a quiet transformation moving away from a singular focus on the US as its sole security partner. Tokyo has begun diversifying its security ties. This text highlights this diversification. The country has initiated security dialogues with Asian neighbours, assumed a leadership role in promoting regional multilateral security cooperation and begun building bilateral security ties with a range of partners, from Australia and India to the European Union. Japan has even lifted its ban on weapons exports co-development with non-US partners. This edited collection explores this trend of decreasing centrality alongside the continued, and perhaps even growing, security (inter)dependence with the US. New Directions in Japan's Security is an essential resource for scholars focused on matters of Japan's national security. It will also interest on a wider basis those wishing to understand why Japan is developing non-American directions in its security strategy"--