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2. Where Power Projection Ends: Constraints on Japanese Militarization By.
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Le, Tom
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INTERNATIONAL relations , *NATIONAL security , *MILITARISM , *MILITARY policy - Abstract
Recent scholarship analyzing Japanese defense policy has been sensationalistic. Challenging the constructivist argument that an antimilitarism norm has constrained Japanese militarization, realists have called attention to Japan's technologically advanced military, procurement of sophisticated weaponry, increased public support for the Japan Self-Defense Force, and a strategy of buck-passing as evidence of "normalization," "militarization," and the emergence of a "great power." However, is this really the case? Has Japan embarked on a new aggressive path, negating decades of pacifism? In this paper, I propose a cross-paradigmatic approach for analyzing Japan's military strength by combining constructivist, liberal, and realist arguments. First, this paper provides a systematic comparison of militaries in East Asia to measure relative power. In context of a rapidly militarizing East Asia and the emergence of new threats, Japan's military policy has been moderate modernization, not militarization. Second, this paper offers a typology of constraints on the Japanese military. Social, technical, normative, and political factors limit Japanese power projection capabilities in the present, and will become more debilitating in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
3. Shielding the 'Hot Gates': Submarine Warfare and Japanese Naval Strategy in the Cold War and Beyond (1976-2006).
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Patalano, Alessio
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SUBMARINE warfare , *NAVAL strategy , *COLD War, 1945-1991 , *MILITARY policy , *NATIONAL security - Abstract
The build-up of Japan's military apparatus in the 1990s and 2000s has been often regarded by security analysts as indicative of a departure from the country's Cold War strategic posture. Japan appears to be engaged in a process of militarisation that is eroding the foundations of its 'exclusively defence-oriented' policy. In the case of the archipelago's naval strategy, such assessments overlook the longstanding significance of a core feature of its defence policy, namely the surveillance of maritime crossroads delivering the wealth of the country. The paper reassesses the evolution of the Japanese strategy since the Cold War by examining the development of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force's submarine force, one of the key components of the defensive shield for these crossroads. The paper argues that with the changes in the security environment of the 1990s, Japan already fielded a mature force with state-of-the-art submarines, and that the rise of a new naval competitor aiming at controlling key strategic points along Japan's sea lanes reconfirmed the critical importance of submarine operations to Japanese national security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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4. Japan's security policy: from a peace state to an international state.
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Singh, Bhubhindar
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NATIONAL security , *POST-Cold War Period , *INTERNATIONALISM , *MILITARY policy ,JAPANESE politics & government, 1989- - Abstract
The paper argues that a significant change in Japanese post-Cold War security policy has occurred, as compared to its Cold War security policy. Instead of relying solely on power-based realist variables, this paper argues that a significant change is taking place because of the shift in Japan's security identity from a 'peace state' to an 'international state'. What this refers to is that Japan sees itself as playing a more active role in military-strategic affairs in the post-Cold War period due to the normative structure shift within Japan in relation to the practices and role(s) in the regional and international security environment. To show change in Japan's security identity and its resultant security behaviour, norms in three areas that define and shape its security policy are contrasted - Japan's definition of national security; its contribution, in military terms, to regional and international security affairs; and the level of agency (control) Japan has in its security policy. The international-state security identity is increasingly recognised by the members of Japan's security policy-making elite and is used to formulate Japan's security policy in the post-Cold War period. It is also gradually being accepted by the larger Japanese society and has become a permanent feature of Japan's security discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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5. Postclassical realism and Japanese security policy.
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Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi
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NATIONAL security , *MILITARY policy - Abstract
The recent domestic constructivist studies characterize Japanese security policy as a serious anomaly to realism and a crucial case vindicating their approach to the larger study of world politics. The present paper challenges this view. It advances a postclassical realist interpretation of Japan's core security policy in the past quarter century. Japan's military doctrine expressed in the 1976 National Defense Program Outline (NDPO) is consistent with postclassical realism's predictions, as opposed to neorealism's predictions, which focus on the dynamics of the regional security dilemma and the question of financial burden resulting from military build-up. In addition, postclassical realism offers a more compelling theoretical guide for understanding Japan's core security policy than defensive realism or mercantile realism. This paper backs up its argument with the empirical evidence that Takuya Kubo, the author of the NDPO, himself intentionally based the NDPO on a postclassical realist line of thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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6. A Nova Estratégia Nacional de Defesa japonesa.
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Bertonha, João Fábio
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NATIONAL security , *MILITARY relations , *MILITARY policy , *BALANCE of power , *TWENTY-first century , *HISTORY ,JAPAN-United States relations ,JAPANESE foreign relations, 1989- ,JAPANESE politics & government, 1945- - Abstract
This paper deals with the new (2013) Japan's National Security Strategy and its relationship with the actual changes in the regional and global strategic landscape. The connections between the new Japanese perspectives on the subject and the recent U.S decision to focus its military Power in the Asia Pacific region will be specially stressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
7. Japan's Changing Defense Policy: Military Deployment in the Persian Gulf.
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Shaoul, Raquel
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MILITARY policy , *GOVERNMENT policy , *NATIONAL security , *MILITARY readiness , *ARMED Forces - Abstract
Since the early 1990s Japan's defense policy has been under incremental significant change, revealed mainly in the legislative field. This paper explores the extent to which Japan's defense policy is changing in military terms. Analysis of Japan's latest security posture in Iraq (2003-2006) brings to light changes in Japan's overall defense policy in terms of defense priorities and implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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8. Japan's Defense Policy.
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NATIONAL security , *ARMS control -- Government policy , *THREATS , *CONSTITUTIONAL amendments , *MILITARY policy - Abstract
The article discusses the defense policy of the Japanese government. It explains the progress in security policies in Japan as a result of changes in the security environment caused by the emergence of new threats. It cites the revision of the arms export control policy by a Japanese cabinet secretary on December 10, 2004. The author offers an overview on the movement of constitutional amendment in Japan's legislative bodies.
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- 2005
9. Japan’s New Security Policy.
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Ninomiya, Takahiro
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MILITARY policy , *NATIONAL security - Abstract
New situations in the Korean Peninsular call for a substantial change for Japan’s security policy which still has large constraints in defense activities. Strong reaction has emerged in general public against North Korean nuclear program and kidnapping of Japanese citizens. In the age of rapid progress in technologies and of shrinking of time and geographical distance, the Japanese defense policy should be transformed so as to be able to act with less constrains. Furthermore, Japan must change the notion on the military forces. The situation eventually calls for the revision of the Article 9 of the current constitution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
10. "The One Who Should be Obeyed?" South Korea and Japan vs. the US in Iraq.
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Levkowitz, Alon
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MILITARY policy , *WAR , *NATIONAL security - Abstract
During the Gulf War South Korea and Japan had to solve a dilemma that they faced. As important allies of the United Stated in Asia they were expected to assist the US in the War in Iraq. Their dilemma was should they assist the United States and accepts its request to send military troops to Iraq and by doing so they will support their ally. Or should they limit their commitment to the alliance with the US only to Asia and not to support the US in the War in Iraq. By doing so, they might reflect on the alliance with the US and they would undermine the alliance and might even expect some kind of retaliation from the US.The security alliance with the US is an important element in the defense policies of both Japan and South Korea. Without the alliance, both states would have to change their defense policies and they might need to increase their defense budget. In the Japanese case, the modification to its defense policy would be even greater then the one that South Korea would have to do.The alliance with the US carries a ?price tag?. In previous years that included the support of the US against the communist block and financial support as well. The first Gulf War (1990-1991) summand both states with the question if they should assist the US in the war against Iraq. Japan decided not to send any forces to assist the US in the war in Iraq due to constitution limitations on using forces outside the Japanese territory. Later on Japan send few sweeping mines ships to the area after the war ended. Japan was criticized by the US and other states for not participating in the war. Japan paid 13 billion $ for the war and later was accused for trying to buy her part in by using a "checkbook diplomacy". Korea's very limited involvement in the first Gulf war was not criticized, as Japan was.This paper analyzes the decisions of Japan and South Korea to send their forces to Iraq in the second Gulf War. Both allies were asked by the US to support her in the war in Iraq. The US forces are stationed in both states for the purpose of defending them against any attack from hostile states such as North Korea for example. The US expected that both allies will cooperate and supports its mission in Iraq. Both allies had to make the decision if the alliance with the US is limited only to the East Asian region or the alliance includes other areas outside the East Asian parameter. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
11. Japanese Antimilitarism: Effective, Irrelevant, or Counterproductive?
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Nishi, Takayuki
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MILITARISM , *NATIONAL security , *MILITARY policy , *SOCIAL norms - Abstract
The debate on antimilitarist norms in Japanese security policy has focused on whether they have prevented Japan from acquiring military capabilities. In fact, the norms have been counterproductive when their advocates overreached. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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