The Japanese ground self-defense force : search for legitimacy
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The Japanese ground self-defense force : search for legitimacy
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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Bibliography: p. 375-401
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Based on extensive Japanese-language materials, this book is the first to examine the development of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force. It addresses: how the GSDF was able to emerge as the post-war successor of the Imperial Japanese Army despite Japan's anti-militarist constitution; how the GSDF, despite the public skepticism and even hostility that greeted its creation, built domestic and international legitimacy; and how the GSDF has responded to changes in international and domestic environments. This path-breaking study of the world's third-largest-economic power's ground army is timely for two reasons. First, the resurgence of tensions in Northeast Asia over territorial disputes, and the emphasis recent Japanese governments have placed on using the GSDF for defending Japan's outlying islands is driving media coverage and specialist interest in the GSDF. Second, the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami has focused global attention on the GSDF as Japan's lead disaster relief organization. This highly informative and thoroughly researched book provides insight for policy makers and academics interested in Japanese foreign and defense policies.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Organization and Structure of the GSDF
Part II. The History of the GSDF
2. The Early Years of the Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945-1960
3. The GSDF during the Cold War, 1960-1989
4. The GSDF in the Post-Cold War Years, 1989-2013
Part III. Civilian Control and the Search for Acceptance
5. The History and Contemporary State of Civilian Control in Postwar Japan
and the GSDF
6. The GSDF and Disaster Relief Dispatches
7. The GSDF's Quest for Public Acceptance and the 'Allergy' Myth
Conclusion
Appendices
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