KOGA Kei <br/><br/>
The rise of China and Japan's balancing strategy :   critical junctures and policy shifts in the 2010s/ 
Kei Koga 
 -  2016 
<br/><br/> This article argues that Japan has maintained balancing behavior vis-a-vis China since the end of  the cold war.  The incremental shift to explicit balancing began after the 2010.  The next section  discusses Japan's policy toward China from the end of the cold war and illustrates the Japan's posture toward China was consistently supported by strong external balancing capabilities throught he US-Japan alliance. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>CHINA -- BALACING STRATEGY<br/>JAPAN -- POLICY