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"In 1947, Japan eternally renounced war and the possession of armed forces with its constitution. How, then, did the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) survive, moreover, evolve over the ensuing 70 years into the prominent presence it is today? Sado Akihiro reviews the JSDF's history chiefly from the viewpoint of restrictions imposed on it by civil officials of the national bureaucracy, based on lessons gleaned from the arbitrary conduct of the military in pre-World War II days. He also explores the financial constraints placed on the JSDF in the form of a percentage of the GNP. This book traces the inside story of U.S.-Japan relations and Japan's defense policy. It attempts to shine a light on the true state of the JSDF in the midst of new challenges that put it at a crossroads, including post-9/11 international terrorism, North Korean nuclear development, and China's increased military presence in Asia"--Back cover.

J4880.90 --- J4881.10 --- J4810.90 --- Japan: Defense and military -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Defense and military -- policy, legislation, guidelines, codes of behavior --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan --- Defenses --- History --- Armed Forces

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"Toward the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Mutsu Munemitsu was ousted from his home Kishū-han as a result of his father's defeat in a power struggle. To avenge this, Mutsu bolstered his talent to become a man of "genius and learning in equal measure." He joined the Kobe Naval Training Center founded by Katsu Kaishū and, later, Kaientai, a trading and shipping company and private navy founded and managed by Sakamoto Ryōma before the Meiji Restoration was accomplished. During the Meiji era, Mutsu fully exercised his extraordinary ability, including working to revise unequal treaties with Western powers as foreign minister. In his last days, he scrambled to end the First Sino-Japanese War; his efforts resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki with favorable terms for Japan. Mutsu also helped Japan ride out the subsequent wave of the Tripartite Intervention from Russia, France, and Germany. This book's author, a career diplomat himself, traces the footsteps of modern Japan's diplomacy by reviewing the philosophical and political journey of this extraordinary diplomat who protected the dignity of Japan as a modern nation throughout his professional life".

Diplomats --- J2284.70 --- J3370 --- J3367 --- J3373 --- J4600.70 --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern period (1868 [1850s]- ) --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo period -- kaikoku and bakumatsu (1853-1867) --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Meiji period (1868-1912) -- modernization and innovation --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Mutsu, Munemitsu, --- Lu'ao, Zongguang, --- Mutsu, Yōnosuke, --- 陆奧宗光, --- 陸奥宗光, --- 陸奧宗光, --- Japan --- Foreign relations --- Diplomatic relations. --- Diplomats. --- Lebensverlauf. --- Verhandlungen. --- Au�enpolitik. --- Internationale Beziehungen. --- Japan. --- Mutsu, Munemitsu. --- 1868-1912. --- 陸奥, 宗光

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"The Constitution of Japan is often described as a pacifist constitution for its Article 9 renouncing war and foreswearing war potential. Although this is usually attributed to starry-eyed idealists and steely-eyed realists in the occupation, both of which wanted to ensure Japan did not again challenge America's position, there is also a cast to be made for crediting Shidehara Kijūrō (1872-1951). Indeed, the case becomes even stronger if we think of the Constitution not so much as pacifist but more as internationalist--as evidenced in the Preamble's trusting in the justice and faith of the peace-loving peoples of the world and its belief that no nation is responsible to itself alone. For it was Shidehara who was the ultimate internationalist. Born to a middle-class family four years after the Meiji Restoration, he went to Tokyo Imperial University and from there to the civil service, ending up at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, history took him to a number of foreign capitals and historic international conferences on his way to the foreign ministership and after he became foreign minister. Serving as foreign minister under a succession of prime ministers, he developed and staunchly promoted what came to be called Shidehara diplomacy--a foreign policy stance of not intervening in China, respecting the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and adhering to what were put forward as universal values. Yet despite his steadfast championship, this internationalist stance was weakened by widespread discrimination against Japanese (e.g., in America's immigration laws) and fatally wounded by the Kwangtung Army's rogue aggression in China. He resigned as foreign minister in 1931, while retaining his seat in the House of Peers, and was tapped by the occupation to be Japan's first postwar prime minister, putting him in a position to influence the Constitution's drafting. Shidehara's was a principled life engagingly recounted in this informative biography by one of Japan's foremost diplomat-turned-historians."--Dust jacket.

J4810.80 --- J4600.80 --- J4641 --- J2284.80 --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Politics and law -- central government -- cabinet --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Gendai, modern (1926- ), Shōwa, 20th century --- Diplomats --- Foreign ministers --- Shidehara, Kijūrō, --- Japan --- Foreign relations --- Diplomatic relations. --- Diplomats. --- Foreign ministers. --- Nihon-Rekishi-Kindai. --- Shidehara, Kijūrō, --- 1868-1945 --- Japan.

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