Handbook of Japanese Security

Handbook of Japanese Security

Japan has risen in stature to become an important player not only in the Western Pacific, but the wider Indo-Pacific. From a defeated nation that adopted a pacifist constitution and demilitarization, Japan has been provoked by unwelcomed external events to ensure its security. It has faced a challenging security environment and specific threats that have transformed its domestic politics and given rise to debates about the relevance of its pacifist constitution. North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, and China’s pressure in the maritime Southwest and the South China Sea, as well as its belligerence over Taiwan, have raised Japanese fears of instability and conflict. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has alarmed Japan that China would similarly resort to force. This present volume includes chapters by experts, Japanese as well as non-Japanese, who examine these issues and how Japan responds to a more threatening security environment while managing its domestic politics. They discuss the debate about the pacifist constitution, the alliance with the US, Japan’s Quad partners, India and Australia and how Japan moves to maintain and protect a free and open regional and international order from which it has benefited.
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
    • Contributors
    • List of Acronyms
    • Introduction
      • Leszek Buszynski
    • Part 1 Overview of Japanese Security
      • 1 The Development of Japan’s Security
        • Toshiya Takahashi
    • Part 2 Domestic Sources
      • 2 Domestic Sources of Japan’s Security Policy
        • Benjamin J. Ascione
      • 3 The Pacifism-Security Nexus in Japan’s Security Policy
        • Rikki Kersten
      • 4 Political Power Shift and Japan’s Security Policy Process
        • Tomohito Shinoda
      • 5 Defense Policy, the Constitution, and Society
        • Tomoyuki Sasaki
      • 6 Constitutional Reinterpretation under Prime Minister Abe: Incremental Change or Radical Shift?
        • Lindsay Black
    • Part 3 Defense and Strategy
      • 7 Developments and Transformations in Japan’s Defense Planning and Readiness
        • Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi
      • 8 Japanese Sea Power Development: Shift from Coastal Defense to SLOC Protection
        • Dongkeun Lee
      • 9 Japan’s Defense Strategy: The Maritime Dimension
        • Yoji Koda
      • 10 From Basic Law to the Multi-Domain Defense Force: Ten Years of Transformation in Japan’s Space Program
        • Paul Kallender
      • 11 The Nuclear Weapons Debate in Japan from the Perspective of Two-Level Games
        • Satoshi Machida
      • 12 Japan’s National Security and Science-Technology Management
        • Kousuke Saitou
      • 13 Japan’s Cybersecurity Strategy and Policy
        • Dai Mochinaga
    • Part 4 US Alliance
      • 14 Japan’s Alliance Relations with the US
        • David Arase
      • 15 The US-Japan Alliance in an Era of Geopolitical and Domestic Change
        • Mary M. McCarthy
    • Part 5 The Indo-Pacific
      • 16 Japan’s National Security and China
        • Daiki Shibuichi
      • 17 Japan and the Korean Peninsula
        • Tsuneo Konishi
      • 18 North Korea’s Nuclear Posture and Japan’s Responses
        • Hideya Kurata
      • 19 Japan and ASEAN: Fifty Years of Cooperation and Trust
        • Tamotsu Fukuda
      • 20 Japan’s Strategic Ties with India: Beyond the Cliché
        • Purnendra Jain
      • 21 Japan and Australia: Forging an Indo-Pacific Partnership
        • H. D. P. Envall and Thomas S. Wilkins
    • Index

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