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Summary:

Japan is quintessentially by geography a maritime country. Maritime surveillance capabilities - underwater, shore-based and airborne - are critical to its national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these capabilities, with particular respect to the underwater segment, about which there is little strategic analysis in publicly available literature.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Post-Cold War intrusions into Japanese waters
• The JMSDF's ocean surveillance architecture
• The Japanese ground self-defense force (JGSDF)
• The organization of the JMSDF: the high command, fleet bases and regional districts
• Japanese undersea surveillance systems, 1920-45
• Technical developments since 1945
• US SOSUS stations
• JMSDF ELINT/undersea surveillance stations
• Airborne ocean surveillance
• JMSDF SIGINT collection and ocean surveillance ships
• The US Ocean Surveillance Information System (OSIS)
• The Maritime Safety Agency (MSA)/Japan Coast Guard (JCG)
• Assessment of Japan's ocean surveillance capabilities.

Author/Creator:

Ball, Desmond , author

Contributors:

Tanter, Richard , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Main Work:

The tools of Owatasumi: Japan's ocean surveillance and coastal defence capabilities [by Ball, D.]

Other Related Resources:

Erscheint auch als: Japan's ocean surveillance and coastal defence capbilities [by Ball, D.] (Druck-Ausgabe)

Subjects:

Boundary disputes

Underwater surveillance — Japan

Territorial waters — Japan

Territorial waters — China

United States — Foreign relations — Japan

Japan — Foreign relations — United States

Underwater surveillance

Territorial waters

Diplomatic relations

China

United States

Japan

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

KZ3684.5.J3 B35 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781925022278 (electronic bk.)
1925022277 (electronic bk.)
1925022269
9781925022261

OCLC Numbers:

899260810