Japans Security Policy for the Twenty First Century

Contents: I. Will Japan repeat the history of 1940s?: 1. Japan as a Military power. 2. Article 9 and the growth of SDF. 3. Comprehensive security. 4. Foreign aid as an instrument of security policy. 5. Japan’s international trade frictions and their bearing on Japan’s security policy. 6. Okinawa—a victim of strategic location. 7. The recent debates on security policy of Japan. Conclusion. Appendices: 1. Security treaty between the United States and Japan, September 8, 1951. 2. Treaty of mutual cooperation and security between the United States and Japan. Signed at Washington, DC, January 19, 1960. 3. Text of the Japan U.S. joint security declaration. 4. Message from Hashimoto, Clinton to peoples of Japan, the United States. 5. Acquisition and cross-servicing accord. 6. Text of SACO interim report. Index.

"National Interest" has been the "guiding star" for the American theorists like Morgenthau to statesmen like Clinton and Kissinger. Blessed with immense natural wealth and having reached the highest technological level ever, the U.S.A. can afford to make "National Interest" as the prime goal of her foreign policy and security.

Poor in resources, sobered by the history of the inhuman brutalities perpetrated by themselves in the Second World War and having been the first victim of the atomic holocaust, the pragmatic Japanese have developed the theory of "Comprehensive Security" which emphasizes the security of Japan as well as the rest of the world.
The story of the growth of this conception of responsible strength, universal order of the Japanese foreign policy and strategy is unfolded, possibly for the first time, by a non-western, non-Japanese scholar in this succinct and elegant book written by the leading specialist on security studies.

This lucid, objective and brilliant monograph of a Bangladeshi scholar will be particularly useful for the students of Japan and East-Asia studies and scholars and policy makers of all big as well as potential regional powers." (jacket)