This book explores Japan's emerging national security policy in relation to China. It considers the rise of nationalism in contemporary Japan, the recent action

For decades after World War II, Japan chose to focus on soft power and economic diplomacy alongside a close alliance with the United States, eschewing a potenti

This book argues that Japanese politicians pay more attention to security issues nowadays because of the electoral reform.

Japan is shifting onto a new trajectory for a more muscular national security policy, US-Japan alliance ties functioning for regional and global security, and t

“Peaceful coexistence,” long a key phrase in China’s strategic thinking, is a constructive doctrine that offers China a path for influencing the internati