The U.S.-Japan security alliance : why it matters and how to strengthen it / Ted Osius ; foreword by Watanabe Akio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osius, Ted.

Series:

Washington papers ; 181.

The Washington papers ; 181

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Military relations--United States.

Japan.

United States--Military relations--Japan.

United States.

Japan--Military policy.

United States--Military policy.

United States--Foreign relations--Japan.

Japan--Foreign relations--United States.

Japan--History--Heisei period, 1989-.

United States--History--1993-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (123 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than three decades, the multifaceted alliance between the United States and Japan has contributed significantly to the security of Japan and the maintenance of peace and security in the Far East. With the end of the Cold War, new sources of potential threats have arisen at a time when Japan's national self-confidence has been shaken by nearly a decade of economic stagnation, a highly fluid political situation, and an inadequate institutional structure for crisis management and strategy formulation. Osius examines how Japan is trying to redefine its identity from a nation whose constitution renounces war as a sovereign right to a normal country involved in United Nations peacekeeping operations and regional military relationships. In his initial chapters, Osius focuses on the purpose of the security alliance and argues that U.S.-Japanese interests coincide enough not only to sustain the alliance, but also to warrant strengthening and promoting it. He then examines the challenges and opportunities for an enhanced alliance over the next decade. Together, he maintains, the United States and Japan can address broadly defined security concerns, such as energy supply, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, transborder crime, piracy, and illegal narcotics, as well as environmental issues, infectious disease, economic development, and humanitarian and disaster relief. However, if it is to thrive, the U.S.-Japan alliance must remain dynamic rather than static and must be nurtured, sustained, and enhanced by both parties. An important analysis for policy makers, scholars, and students of U.S.-Japanese political and military relations and Asian Studies in general.

Contents:

Cover

THE U.S.-JAPAN SECURITY ALLIANCE

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Notes

1 Defense of Japan

The Burdens of History

Contemporary Examples

U.S. and Japanese Interests

Options for the Future

2 The Korean Peninsula

U.S. Interests

Japanese Interests

The Current Situation on the Peninsula

A New Deal?

The China Factor

3 Taiwan

Fear of Entrapment

The Cross-Strait Situation

4 China

A Triangular Relationship

Human Rights

Energy and the Environment

5 The East Asian Region

U.S. and Japanese Interests in Russia

U.S. and Japanese Interests in Southeast Asia

Security Communities

Humanitarian Activities

U.S. Overstretch

6 The Problem of Okinawa: A Shared Challenge

Background

The Burden

Reducing the Impact

Economic Development

Discussing Why the Bases Matter

7 Japanese and U.S. Challenges and Opportunities

Japan's Dilemma

Peacekeeping

The Role of Japan's Self-Defense Forces

America's Challenge

America's Opportunity

8 Opportunities for a Strengthened Alliance

Strategic Dialogue

A New Strategic Framework

Theater Missile Defense

China's Opposition

Transnational and Multinational Cooperation

Bibliography

Interviews by the Author

Tokyo

Yokota Air Base

Okinawa

Taipei

Seoul

Singapore

Conferences, Symposia, Seminars, Lectures, and Meetings

Study Groups and Presentations

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-98) and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-02876-5

0-313-01330-6

OCLC:

53041840