A new spear in Asia: why is Japan moving toward autonomous defense?

Fatton, Lionel P.

doi:10.1093/irap/lcy006

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“…Japan is viewed as looping back to traditions of earlier strategic thought that argue for retaking its place as a great power as in the pre-war period. In line with this approach, Japan is seen as reaching out regionally and globally to initiate the types of free-flowing partnerships and alliances that might enable it to gradually detach itself from the United States, again, either as insurance against over-dependence on the United States (George Mulgan 2008), or to forge a strategic line that diverges from that of the United States (Fatton 2019).…”

Section: Making Sense Of Japan's Security Trajectorymentioning

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Japan as a Global Military Power

Hughes

2022

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Japan is emerging as a more prominent global and regional military power, defying traditional categorisations of a minimalist contribution to the US-Japan alliance, maintaining anti-militarism, seeking an internationalist role, or carving out more strategic autonomy. Instead, this Element argues that Japan has fundamentally shifted its military posture over the last three decades and traversed into a new categorisation of a more capable military power and integrated US ally. This results from Japan's recognition of its fundamentally changing strategic environment that requires a new grand strategy and military doctrines. The shift is traced across the national security strategy components of Japan Self-Defence Forces' capabilities, US-Japan alliance integration, and international security cooperation. The Element argues that all these components are subordinated inevitably to the objectives of homeland security and re-strengthening the US-Japan alliance, and thus Japan's development as international security partner outside the ambit of the bilateral alliance remains stunted. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Section: Making Sense Of Japan's Security Trajectorymentioning

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Japan as a Global Military Power

Hughes

2022

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“…Instead of depicting it as a model, most previous research has blasted Japan's pacifism as an unrealistic and unsustainable aberration. This dominant line of research understands recent changes in Japan's security environment-a rising China and a belligerent North Koreaas having led Japan to realize what has been obvious to them all along (see Hughes 2004;Miller 2005Miller /2006Samuels 2007;Glosserman and Snyder 2008;Liff 2015;Grønning 2014;Auslin 2016;Hughes 2016;Fatton 2018; for scholarship that problematizes the rise of China and how it should be handled, see Breuer and Johnston 2019;Gries and Jing 2019;Turner and Nymalm 2019).…”

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Long live pacifism! Narrative power and Japan’s pacifist model

Gustafsson

Hagström

Hanssen

2019

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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International relations research acknowledges that states can have different security policies but neglects the fact that 'models' may exist in the security policy realm. This article suggests that it is useful to think about models, which it argues can become examples for emulation or be undermined through narrative power. It illustrates the argument by analysing Japan's pacifism-an alternative approach to security policy which failed to become an internationally popular model and, despite serving the country well for many years, has even lost its appeal in Japan. Conventional explanations suggest that Japan's pacifist policies were 'abnormal', and that the Japanese eventually realized this. By contrast, this article argues that narratives undermined Japan's pacifism by mobilizing deep-seated beliefs about what is realistic and unrealistic in international politics, and launches a counter-narrative that could help make pacifism a more credible model in world politics.

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US Bilateralism Under Trump, Power Shift in East Asia, and Implications for Regional Security and Prosperity: A Theoretical Analysis of Japan’s Strategic Adjustment

Akaha

Hirata

2021

Contributions to International Relations

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A new spear in Asia: why is Japan moving toward autonomous defense?

Cited by 8 publications

References 39 publications

Japan as a Global Military Power

Japan as a Global Military Power

Long live pacifism! Narrative power and Japan’s pacifist model

US Bilateralism Under Trump, Power Shift in East Asia, and Implications for Regional Security and Prosperity: A Theoretical Analysis of Japan’s Strategic Adjustment

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