The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force - 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 Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force write by Robert D. Eldridge. This book was released on 2017-01-21. The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on extensive Japanese-language materials, this book is the first to examine the development of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force. It addresses: how the GSDF was able to emerge as the post-war successor of the Imperial Japanese Army despite Japan’s anti-militarist constitution; how the GSDF, despite the public skepticism and even hostility that greeted its creation, built domestic and international legitimacy; and how the GSDF has responded to changes in international and domestic environments. This path-breaking study of the world’s third-largest-economic power’s ground army is timely for two reasons. First, the resurgence of tensions in Northeast Asia over territorial disputes, and the emphasis recent Japanese governments have placed on using the GSDF for defending Japan’s outlying islands is driving media coverage and specialist interest in the GSDF. Second, the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami has focused global attention on the GSDF as Japan’s lead disaster relief organization. This highly informative and thoroughly researched book provides insight for policy makers and academics interested in Japanese foreign and defense policies.
Creating Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945–2015
Creating Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945–2015 - 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 Creating Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945–2015 write by David Hunter-Chester. This book was released on 2016-11-30. Creating Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945–2015 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Creating Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945–2015 is a timely contribution to postwar Japan security studies. It is the first comprehensive account of Japan’s post-1945 army, including a comprehensive institutional history, together with the evolution of roles and missions and the adoption of successive professional identities. The organizational history is embedded within a thorough examination of Japan’s own defense policy, as well as of America’s policy of alliance with Japan. The book examines and challenges assumptions about the drafting and adoption of the War Renunciation clause of Japan’s postwar Peace Constitution, Article 9, which uniquely not only renounces war, but the arms to wage war. Thus Japan’s army is not called an army, but the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF). The work also examines the place of an army and soldiers in the formation of Japan’s national identity after its last devastating war, and explores the impact of constitutional, legal and policy restrictions, as well as the power of the legacy of the still-largely vilified Imperial Japanese Army on GSDF members who seek to serve because “there are people we want to protect.” The study is rounded by an examination of the place of soldiers in Japan’s popular culture, focused on movies, manga and anime, assessing the impact on the GSDF of a public imagination that most often ignores or villainizes soldiers, though ending with a note that some positive images of soldiers and of the GSDF members themselves have started to appear in the last few years. The book’s author, a retired U.S. Army soldier who spent more than twenty years working, studying and training with the GSDF, offers a broad-ranging exploration of a unique organization. This work is extensively researched, using English and Japanese sources, and will appeal to anyone interested in Japanese security studies, alliance studies, and military imagery in Japanese pop culture, as well as to students of military history, international security, international relations, and cultural identity.
Photographs of the 1st Division, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
Photographs of the 1st Division, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force - 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 Photographs of the 1st Division, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force write by Japan. Ground Self-Defense Force. This book was released on 1955. Photographs of the 1st Division, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Photo album contains 27 black-and-white photographs with accompanying typed descriptions of the 1st Division of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF).
The Self-defense Forces and Postwar Politics in Japan
The Self-defense Forces and Postwar Politics in Japan - 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 Self-defense Forces and Postwar Politics in Japan write by 佐道明広. This book was released on 2017-03-27. The Self-defense Forces and Postwar Politics in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In 1947, Japan eternally renounced war and the possession of armed forces with its constitution. How, then, did the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) survive, moreover, evolve over the ensuing 70 years into the prominent presence it is today? Sado Akihiro reviews the JSDF's history chiefly from the viewpoint of restrictions imposed on it by civil officials of the national bureaucracy, based on lessons gleaned from the arbitrary conduct of the military in pre-World War II days. He also explores the financial constraints placed on the JSDF in the form of a percentage of the GNP. This book traces the inside story of U.S.-Japan relations and Japan's defense policy. It attempts to shine a light on the true state of the JSDF in the midst of new challenges that put it at a crossroads, including post-9/11 international terrorism, North Korean nuclear development, and China's increased military presence in Asia"--Back cover.
Japan’s Military Power
Japan’s Military Power - 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 Power write by Robert D. Eldridge. This book was released on 2020-01-24. Japan’s Military Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an insider’s account of the problems facing the Self-Defense Forces (SDF), Japan’s postwar military, authored by the country’s leading submariner, Hideki Nakamura. Specializing in the submarine fleet, he became an ace commander, in addition to serving as an analyst and professor in security studies. During his career, he became increasingly troubled by the SDF’s ability to fight due to legal, political, and operational restrictions placed upon it. This book, a translation of his 2017 bestseller, is a must-read for those interested in Japan’s military and its ability to partner with other countries.
