Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine’: New Dynamism or New Dead End? PDF
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Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine’ DOI: 10.1057/9781137514257.0001 Other Palgrave Pivot titles Eleanor Sandry: Robots and Communication Hyunjung Lee: Performing the Nation in Global Korea: Transnational Theatre Creso M. Sá and Andrew J. Kretz: The Entrepreneurship Movement and the University Emma Bell: Soft Power and Freedom Under the Coalition: State-Corporate Power and the Threat to Democracy Ben Ross Schneider: Designing Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-State Relations and the New Developmentalism Tamer Thabet:Video Game Narrative and Criticism: Playing the Story Raphael Sassower: Compromising the Ideals of Science David A. Savage and Benno Torgler: The Times They Are A Changin’: The Effect of Institutional Change on Cooperative Behaviour at 26,000 ft over Sixty Years Mike Finn (editor): The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain after the Coalition Clive D. Field: Britain’s Last Religious Revival? 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Mixon, Jr: Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria Elisa Menicucci:Fair Value Accounting: Key Issues Arising from the Financial Crisis DOI: 10.1057/9781137514257.0001 Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine’: New Dynamism or New Dead End? Christopher W. Hughes Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies, University of Warwick, UK DOI: 10.1057/9781137514257.0001 © Christopher W. Hughes2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition2015 978-1-137-51424-0 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–51425–7 PDF ISBN: 978–1–349-50636-1 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. www.palgrave.com/pivot DOI: 10.1057/9781137514257 For William Kazuki DOI: 10.1057/9781137514257.0001 Contents Acknowledgements viii List of Abbreviations ix 1 Introduction: From ‘Yoshida Doctrine’ to ‘Abe Doctrine’? 1 2 The Origins and Ideological Drivers of the ‘Abe Doctrine’ 8 Ending the ‘post-war regime’, restoring great power status 9 Constitutional revision 12 Historical revisionism, challenging the Kōno Statement, patriotic education 15 Yasukuni Shrine and challenging the Tokyo Tribunals 21 3 Japan’s National Security Policy Under Abe 28 National Security Strategy, National Defence Programme Guidelines, State Secrecy Law 29 Breaching the arms export ban, militarisation of ODA 36 Collective self-defence made reality 39 Radical new security precedents 54 4 The ‘Abe Doctrine’ and US–Japan Alliance Relations 64 Revising the US–Japan Defence Guidelines, Futenma relocation, TPP negotiations 65 Fears of abandonment, resistance in Okinawa, trade blockages 70 vi DOI: 10.1057/9781137514257.0001 Contents vii Distrust over revisionism and Yasukuni 72 Who is entrapping whom? 75 5 Japan’s Relations Under Abe with China, the Korean Peninsula and ASEAN 79 Encircling China 80 More progress with North Korea than South Korea? 85 Abe isolates Japan, China encircles Japan? 86 Sino–Japanese stalemate? 88 6 Conclusion: ‘Abe Doctrine’ as Revolution or Contradictory Failure? 91 Three great contradictions 92 Resentful Realism redux 95 Bibliography 97 Index 110 DOI: 10.1057/9781137514257.0001 Acknowledgements Much of the initial draft of this manuscript was written during the time spent in April 2014 as Visiting Research Associate at Waseda University’s Organization for Japan–US Studies. I would like to thank Professor Nemoto Kuniaki for sponsoring my visit and all the staff of WOJUSS for making my stay so pleasant and productive. I am grate- ful to Professor Terada Takashi of Doshisha University for debating with me some of my key ideas around Prime Minister Abe’s foreign policy. I would also like to thank Paul Kallender for comments on the final draft of the manuscript and Miriam Grinberg and Katie Dingley for invaluable research assistance. Finally, as always, thanks go to Chiyako, Eleanor and William for putting up with my distractions in the finishing of this manuscript late in 2014. Any omissions or errors of fact remain entirely my own responsibility. viii DOI: 10.1057/9781137514257.0002 List of Abbreviations ACSA Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement ADIZ air defence identification zone ASCM anti-ship cruise missile ASDF Air Self-Defence Force ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASW anti-submarine warfare ATSML Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law BDF Basic Defence Force BMD ballistic missile defence CLB Cabinet Legislation Bureau DDF Dynamic Defence Force DPJ Democratic Party of Japan EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone FRF Futenma Replacement Facility G8 Group of Eight G20 Group of Twenty GCC Gulf Cooperation Council GSDF Ground Self-Defence Force GSOMIA General Security of Military Information Agreement IISS International Institute for Strategic Studies IPCL International Peace Cooperation Law ISR intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance JCG Japan Coast Guard JDAM joint direct attack munitions JMOD Japan Ministry of Defence JSDF Japan Self-Defence Forces KHI Kawasaki Heavy Industries LDP Liberal Democratic Party DOI: 10.1057/9781137514257.0003 ix
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