SMITH Sheila A,  1959- <br/><br/>
Japan rearmed:  the politics of military power / 
Sheila A. Smith. 
 - Cambridge :  Harvard Univ Press,  2019. 
 - xi, 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Council on Foreign Relations books". 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (page 313-321) and index. 
<br/><br/> This book examines this ambivalence over the military as an instrument of power and argues that the accelerating changes in Japan's relationship with the United States and with its neighbors are forcing Tokyo's political leaders to confront the idea that they may need to order their military to do what all militaries are expected to do: prepare for war. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674987647 (hbk.):  23.95GBP 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>JAPAN.KENPO (1946)<br/>JAPAN -- ARMED FORCES -- HISTORY<br/>JAPAN -- MILITARY POLICY<br/>JAPAN -- FOREIGN RELATIONS