Japan re-armed / Malcolm McIntosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McIntosh, Malcolm, 1953- author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Academic collections : Japanese politics and international relations.

Bloomsbury Academic collections : Japanese politics and international relations, 2051-0012

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1985-1995.

World politics.

Japan--Defenses.

Japan.

Japan--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"At the end of the Pacific War in 1945, Japan laid down her arms and submitted to US technological superiority. The situation today is radically different, with Japan leading in many areas of advanced technology - with armed forces and weaponry the match of many NATO countries. Malcolm McIntosh analyses Japan's role in the Pacific, her relations with other Superpowers, as well as the trade and investment for which Japan is now famed and feared. First published in 1986, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Roots; Introduction; Before 1868; The Emperor in Japan; Up to the Pacific war; The Second World War; The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; The American Occupation of Japan-1945 to 1952; 2. Comprehensive security, self-defence and rearmament; Introduction; The 1947 Constitution: Article Nine; The Japanese Self-Defence Forces (JSDF); Economic growth, 1945 to 1985; Defence budget, 1985; Defence plans, 1986 to 1990; The size and scope of the SDF; Future developments and construction programmes; A slow-down?

Japan''s defence industry baseThe civilian-military connection; Pressure for change; The future of Japan''s defence industry; Japan''s space programme; Japan''s computer development; Japan as a nuclear power; 3. Threats to Japan-imagined or otherwise; Introduction; Threats?; What is the Soviet threat to Japan?; 007-tensions to the north of Japan; Japanese or Soviet territory-the Kurile Islands?; Dire straits; Another Korean war; Japan''s Middle East role; Comprehensive security; 4. Japan and the world; Introduction: foreign policy; The United States and East Asia; Japan and the Soviet Union

A near neighbour-ChinaJapan and ASEAN; A distant neighbour-Europe; 5. Changes in Japan; Introduction; The turning point; The rise of the right; Selling militarism to the Japanese; Education for nationalism; Opposition to rearmament: the majority?; 6. Conclusions: where to in the twenty-first century?; The issues; Pacific Japan; The militarized Pacific; Japan-a rearmed strategic power; Select bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published in 1986 by St. Martin's Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472553393

147255339X

9781780935140

1780935145

OCLC:

902945289