Rethinking Japanese public opinion and security : from pacifism to realism? / Paul Midford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Midford, Paul, Author.

Contributor:

Midford, Paul.

Series:

Studies in Asian security.

Studies in Asian security

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Japan--Public opinion.

National security.

Public opinion--Japan.

Public opinion.

Japan--Military policy--Public opinion.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California Stanford University Press 2011

Summary:

In this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of Japan's military power, in which Japanese troops would fight alongside their American counterparts in various conflicts worldwide. Midford argues that Japanese public opinion has never embraced pacifism. It has, instead, contained significant elements of realism, in that it has acknowledged the utility of military power for defending national territory and independence, but has seen offensive military power as ineffective fo

Contents:

Public attitudes, opinion, and the conditions for policy influence

Views on the utility of military force and America's use of force

Reassessing public opinion during the Cold War

The First Gulf War

International peacekeeping and the U.S. alliance in the 1990s

Japanese public opinion and responses to 9-11 and the Afghan invasion

The Iraq War and the SDF

Reversing course : an Iraq syndrome in Japan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-236) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804777711

0804777713

OCLC:

726734860