TY - BOOK AU - KOGA Kei TI - The rise of China and Japan's balancing strategy: critical junctures and policy shifts in the 2010s PY - 2016/// KW - CHINA KW - BALACING STRATEGY KW - JAPAN KW - POLICY N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2016.1160520 ER -