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National security --- Public opinion --- Japan --- Military policy --- Public opinion.

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This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia's first multilateral security forum in the early 1990s, emerging as a regional leader. Overcoming Isolationism explores what led to this surprising about-face and offers a corrective to the misperception that Japan's security strategy is reactive to US pressure and unresponsive to its neighbors. Paul Midford draws on newly released official documents and extensive interviews to reveal a quarter century of Japanese leadership in promoting regional security cooperation. He demonstrates that Japan has a much more nuanced relationship with its neighbors and has played a more significant leadership role in shaping East Asian security than has previously been recognized.

Security, International --- Japan --- Foreign relations --- ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). --- ASEAN. --- Alliance Security Dilemma. --- Common Security. --- Cooperative Security. --- Fear of Abandonment. --- Fear of Entrapment. --- Japan. --- Regional Security Multilateralism. --- reassurance.

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After decades of solely relying on the United States for its national security needs, Japan has begun to actively develop and deepen its security ties with a growing number of countries and actors in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. This is a development that has further intensified under the Shinzo Abe administration. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the motives and objectives from both the Japanese and the partner-countries' perspectives. It asks what this might mean for the security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region and what lessons can be learned for security cooperation more broadly. It examines in detail Japan's partnerships with Australia, India, countries and multilateral security fora in East Asia, as well as with the EU and some of its member states. Since the mid-2000s under LDP and DPJ administrations, bilateral security partnerships accelerated and today go beyond non-traditional security issue areas and extend far into traditional security and military affairs, including the exchange and joint acquisition of military hardware, military exercises and capacity building. It is argued that these developments will have wide ranging implications for the security architecture in the Asia-Pacific, all of which are explored in this collection.

JAPAN--NATIONAL SECURITY --- JAPAN--FOREIGN RELATIONS --- Polemology

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Renewable energy sources. --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Government policy

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This book identifies second stage challenges and opportunities for expanding renewable energy into a mainstay of electricity generation that can replace fossil fuels and nuclear power, comparing Japan with several countries in East Asia and Northern Europe. Environmentally sustainable renewable energy technologies have now overtaken fossil fuel and nuclear technologies in terms of total global investment, and the costs of these technologies and related ones (e.g. storage batteries) are rapidly falling. Yet renewable energy use varies greatly from country to country. Major second stage obstacles to replacing fossil and nuclear-fueled electricity generation include the lack of electricity grid capacity and storage assets. Opportunities and solutions include expanding grids regionally and internationally, building flexible smart grids that offer better demand management, and policies that promote the expansion of storage assets, especially grid batteries and hydrogen. In addition, two key factors - electricity market restructuring through unbundling transmission from electricity generating companies; and electricity market liberalization, especially for retail customers - allow consumers to choose power companies based not only on price, but also on method of generation, especially fossil or nuclear generation versus renewable energy. Paul Midford is Professor of Political Science and Director of the NTNU Japan Program, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Espen Moe is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the NTNU Japan Council at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

International relations. Foreign policy --- Politics --- Economic order --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Foreign trade. International trade --- Development aid. Development cooperation --- internationale politiek --- ontwikkelingsbeleid --- ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- wereldeconomie --- economische ontwikkelingen --- Europese politiek --- internationale economie --- ontwikkelingspolitiek --- Europe --- Asia