Japan: Still An Exceptional U.S. Ally

Hornung, Jeffrey W.; Mochizuki, Mike

doi:10.1080/0163660x.2016.1170483

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“…When it comes to serving Japan in the realm of national self-defense, people are much less willing. Scholars have noted the persistence of anti-military views in Japanese society, and the low level of popularity for joining the SDF (Hornung and Mochizuki 2016). Asked if they were "willing to fight for Japan," in the 1980s, only 21 percent said they were willing, and this decreased still further over time to 15 percent.…”

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Is Japan Back? Measuring Nationalism and Military Assertiveness in Asia's Other Great Power

Lind¹,

Ueki²

2021

J. East Asian Stud.

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Observers of East Asia frequently claim that Japanese nationalism is on the rise, and that Tokyo is abandoning its longtime military restraint. To determine whether these trends are indeed occurring, we define and measure Japan's nationalism and military assertiveness; we measure whether they are rising relative to Japan in the past, and relative to seven other countries.Drawing from social identity theory, we distinguish between “nationalism” and a more benign “patriotism.” We find in Japan (1) strong patriotism that is stable over time, and no evidence of rising nationalism. Furthermore we find that (2) military assertiveness remains generally low, but it has risen in terms of decreased institutional constraints and peacekeeping activities. Our findings have important implications for academic debates about nationalism and Japanese security policy, and for policy debates about a nascent balancing effort against China.

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Section: E a S U R I N G J A P A N E S E N A T I O N A L I D E N T I T Ymentioning

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Is Japan Back? Measuring Nationalism and Military Assertiveness in Asia's Other Great Power

Lind¹,

Ueki²

2021

J. East Asian Stud.

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“…This would mean a departure from well-established practices of the US-Japan security policy that have underpinned Japanese foreign policy in place since the postwar period (Weinstein 1971;Scalapino 1977;Armitage and Nye 2012). The decision by Japan and the US to tighten the alliance and to ensure that Japan continues to play this exceptional role (Green 2003;Hornung and Mochizuki 2016) meant that for most part, the role of the US in Japan's foreign policy has become more salient, not less. The fundamental question is therefore how Japan should adjust its foreign policy to the new roles both Tokyo and Washington are V. TEO Japanese political and philosophical ideas about statecraft, diplomacy and world politics.…”

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Japan’s Arduous Rejuvenation as a Global Power

Teo¹

2019

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“…This would mean a departure from well-established practices of the US-Japan security policy that have underpinned Japanese foreign policy in place since the postwar period (Weinstein 1971;Scalapino 1977;Armitage and Nye 2012). The decision by Japan and the US to tighten the alliance and to ensure that Japan continues to play this exceptional role (Green 2003;Hornung and Mochizuki 2016) meant that for most part, the role of the US in Japan's foreign policy has become more salient, not less. The fundamental question is therefore how Japan should adjust its foreign policy to the new roles both Tokyo and Washington are playing while going forward, and if the stimulus for changes are endogenous versus exogenous (Hicks 1997;Hook et al 2011;Samuels 1994Samuels , 2007Santoro and Warden 2015;Green 2003Green , 2017.…”

Section: Shinzo Abementioning

confidence: 99%