Japan's sea lane security, 1940-2004 : a matter of life and death?
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Japan's sea lane security, 1940-2004 : a matter of life and death?
(The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series)
Routledge, 2006
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Available at 19 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
: hardback683.9||G7600955518
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-303) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first major English-language study to explore the broad and longstanding connections between Japan's national security and the safety of its sea lanes. Tracing issues from pre-and post-1945 eras, the book explores how Japan's concerns with sea lane protection have developed across such diverse fields as military strategy, diplomacy, trade policy, energy security, and law enforcement.
Drawing upon case study material and primary research including interviews with officials and security analysts, the book presents a chronological analysis of Japan's sea lane security. While Japan's security policies have recently undergone relatively rapid change, a historical treatment of sea lane security issues reveals long-term continuity in security policymakers' perceptions and responses regarding Japan's defence and foreign policy.
Revealing a neglected but important aspect of Japan's military and economic security, the book investigates why officials and analysts continue to portray the defence of Japan's sea lanes as 'a matter of life and death'.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Japan's Maritime Trade and Trade Routes: An Empirical Analysis 2. Sea Lines in Strategy 3. Japan's pre-1945 SLOC Security Introduction Maritime Economic Interests: Foreign Trade and the Merchant Marine before 1945 4. Japan's Sea Lane Security in the Era of Defence Constraints, 1945-77 5. Sea Lane Defence and Alliance Cooperation: 1977-90 6. Japan's Sea Lane Diplomacy in Southeast Asia Since the 1970s 7. Japan's Post-Cold War SLOC Security: Piracy and Terrorism-at-Sea
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