Japan’s Security Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan’s Security Renaissance write by Andrew L. Oros. This book was released on 2017-03-07. Japan’s Security Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Japan’s Military Renaissance?
Japan’s Military Renaissance? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan’s Military Renaissance? write by Keisuke Matsuyama. This book was released on 2016-07-27. Japan’s Military Renaissance? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The purpose of this book is to examine the security-related aspects behind Japan's emerging internationalism. Japan has for some time been projecting a higher international profile, which the Diet's approval to allow Japanese armed forces to operate abroad is but one manifestation. The book's scope is not limited to military issues; it embraces a spectrum of security-related topics such as constitutional amendment, international re-alignment and cooperation, defence industrialisation, Japan-US relations and technology leakage, and Japan's role in the new international order.
Heavenly Warriors
Heavenly Warriors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heavenly Warriors write by William Wayne Farris. This book was released on 2020-03-23. Heavenly Warriors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “In a government, military matters are the essential thing,” said Japan’s “Heavenly Warrior,” the Emperor Temmu, in 684. Heavenly Warriors traces in detail the evolutionary development of weaponry, horsemanship, military organization, and tactics from Japan’s early conflicts with Korea up to the full-blown system of the samurai. Enhanced by illustrations and maps, and with a new preface by the author, this book will be indispensable for students of military history and Japanese political history.
The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932
The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932 write by Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka. This book was released on 2020-03-23. The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this history of Japanese involvement in northeast China, the author argues that Japan’s military seizure of Manchuria in September 1931 was founded on three decades of infiltration of the area. This incremental empire-building and its effect on Japan are the focuses of this book. The principal agency in the piecemeal growth of Japanese colonization was the South Manchurian Railway Company, and by the mid-1920s Japan had a deeply entrenched presence in Manchuria and exercised a dominant economic and political influence over the area. Japanese colonial expansion in Manchuria also loomed large in Japanese politics, military policy, economic development, and foreign relations and deeply influenced many aspects of Japan’s interwar history."
War and National Reinvention
War and National Reinvention - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War and National Reinvention write by Frederick R. Dickinson. This book was released on 1999. War and National Reinvention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For Japan, as one of the victorious allies, World War I meant territorial gains in China and the Pacific. At the end of the war, however, Japan discovered that in modeling itself on imperial Germany since the nineteenth century, it had perhaps been imitating the wrong national example. Japanese policy debates during World War I, particularly the clash between proponents of greater democratization and those who argued for military expansion, thus became part of the ongoing discussion of national identity among Japanese elites. This study links two sets of concerns--the focus of recent studies of the nation on language, culture, education, and race; and the emphasis of diplomatic history on international developments--to show how political, diplomatic, and cultural concerns work together to shape national identity.
