Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power - Hardcover

Smith, Sheila A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674987640 ISBN 13: 9780674987647

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Japans U.S.imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, as Sheila Smith shows, a nuclear North Korea and an increasingly assertive China have the Japanese rethinking that commitment, and their reliance on United States security.

Japan has one of Asias most technologically advanced militaries and yet struggles to use its hard power as an instrument of national policy. The horrors of World War II continue to haunt policymakers in Tokyo, while China and South Korea remain wary of any military ambitions Japan may entertain. Yet a fundamental shift in East Asian geopolitics has forced Japan to rethink the commitment to pacifism it made during the U.S. occupation. It has increasingly flexed its musclesdeploying troops under UN auspices, participating in coercive sanctions, augmenting surveillance capabilities, and raising defense budgets.

Article Nine of Japans constitution, drafted by U.S. authorities in 1946, claims that the Japanese people forever renounce the use of force as a means of settling international disputes. When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe broke this taboo by advocating revision of Article Nine, public outcry was surprisingly muted. The military, once feared as a security liability, now appears to be an indispensable asset, called upon with increasing frequency and given a seat at the policymaking table.

In Japan Rearmed Sheila Smith argues that Japan is not only responding to increasing threats from North Korean missiles and Chinese maritime activities but also reevaluating its dependence on the United States. No longer convinced that they can rely on Americans to defend Japan, Tokyos political leaders are now confronting the possibility that they may need to prepare the nations military for war.

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Sheila A. Smith is John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China. She is chair of the US advisors to the US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange and is a frequent media commentator on East Asian affairs.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674987640
• ISBN 13: 9780674987647
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 333
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