A Japanese Social Science? Creating Human Security and Academic-Policy Complex.

Human security, both its theory and practice, has attracted a significant number of academic and policy audiences. Japan is no exception. Nowadays the country prepares a powerful set of discourse, intellectually and practically, on human-centred perspective of security. With these as a background, this paper aims to analyse the relationship between human security and Japanese academic-policy complex. Because of its origin and recent development, human security itself is not a ?Made-In-Japan? product at all. However, the paper will argue that the idea of human security is in a sense very ?Japanese.? Focusing on major streams of both International Relations and International Law scholarships, the paper will present that the country?s academics did make a success to connect their theoretical development with actual policy. The key here is that both streams inherited different expertise from the United States respectively, namely social constructivism and Yale School?s theory of international law and policy sciences, these two streams converged into one theory that served as the foundation of the human security policy agenda. The paper will finally argue that although this policy-oriented academic discourse did contribute to the creation and development of human security, such tendency indeed raises questions that deserve serious reconsideration. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]