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Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: ch. One Japan's Twenty-First-Century Security Renaissance
• ch. Two Gradual Awakening
• ch. Three Japan's Relative Decline and New Security Challenges in a Multipolar Asia
• ch. Four Domestic Power Transitions and Japan's Evolving Strategic Posture, 2006 to 2012
• ch. Five New Conservative Mainstream and New Security Policies Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 2012 to 2016.

Author/Creator:

Oros, Andrew , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Japan's security renaissance: new policies and politics for the twenty-first century [by Oros, A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Japan's security renaissance [by Oros, A.] (New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] — ISBN 9780231172608; LCCN 2016014024)

Related Series:

Contemporary Asia in the world

Subjects:

National security — Japan

Japan — Strategic aspects

Japan — Politics and government — 1989-

Japan — Foreign relations — 1989-

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

UA845 .O74 2017eb

ISBNs:

9780231542593 (electronic bk.)
0231542593 (electronic bk.)
9780231172608 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0231172605 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780231172615 (paperback) [Invalid]
0231172613 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2016031340

OCLC Numbers:

953258554

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4774006 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp13320616