1st Edition

New Directions in Japan’s Security Non-U.S. Centric Evolution

286 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

286 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

286 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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While the US-Japan alliance has strengthened since the end of the Cold War, Japan has, almost unnoticed, been building security ties with other partners, in the process reducing the centrality of the US in Japan’s security. This book explains why this is happening. Japan pursued security isolationism during the Cold War, but the US was the exception. Japan hosted US bases and held joint... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acronyms

A note on Japanese transliteration and names

Preface

1 Introduction

PAUL MIDFORD AND WILHELM VOSSE

2 Explaining: decentering and recentering in security strategy

PAUL MIDFORD

PART I

Non-American directions in defense policy

3 Centered on the fight within: the inward-looking nature of the Japanese debate on constitutional reinterpretation with a diluted US focus

BRYCE WAKEFIELD

4 Lifting the ban on defense industrial production cooperation with non-US partners

CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES

PART II

Diversifying security partners

5 Japan’s ‘special’ strategic partnership with Australia: ‘decentering’ underwrites ‘recentering’

THOMAS S. WILKINS

6 Japan’s policy toward India since 2000: for the Sake of maintaining US leadership in East Asia

NATSUYO ISHIBASHI

7 Japan’s security partnerships with the Philippines and Vietnam

BJØRN ELIAS MIKALSEN GRØNNING

PART III

Japan’s focus on multilateral security cooperation

8 From a decentering and recentering imperative: Japan’s approach to Asian security multilateralism

TAKESHI YUZAWA

9 Is Japan’s engagement in counter-piracy missions a step towards decentering of its security policy?

WILHELM VOSSE

10 Japan’s cooperation with the EU in the nexus of development and security

MARIE SÖDERBERG

11 Evolution of Japan’s non-US centric security strategy and European influences on Japan’s peace-building policy

YUKIKO TAKEZAWA

PART IV

Reflections on Japan’s non-American focused initiatives

12 The continued centrality of the United States to Japan’s security doctrine in an era of expanding security partnerships

ANDREW L. OROS

13 Non-US direction in Japan’s security strategy: a Chinese view

SUISHENG ZHAO

14 Conclusion

WILHELM VOSSE AND PAUL MIDFORD

Index