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100	1		_aKANEHARA Nobukatsu
245			_aReading Japan's national security strategy/ _cKanehara Nobukatsu
260			_c2023
520			_aIn December 2022, Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio announced a new defense posture of Japan and published the National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy, and the Defense Buildup Program. He startled many by declaring that Japan would double its defense budget. It will make Japan's defense budget the biggest in the world only after the United States and China. He also announced that Japan will acquire serious counter offensive capabilities, namely intermediate range missiles. This big shift was not a choice, but a necessity, seeing China's tremendous and surprisingly speedy military buildup. China, oppressing not only Uighurs, Tibetans, and inner Mongolians domestically, but also suppressing freedom in Hong Kong and changing the status quo in the East and China Seas, took on the US allies by taking Scarborough Reef from the Philippines and sending Haijing patrol boats regularly to violate the territorial sea of the Senkaku Islands of Japan in 2012. This article explains the main points and background of the new Japanese strategic thinking.
650			_aNATIONAL SECURITY
650			_aJAPAN
773			_aAsia-Pacific Review: _gVol 30 No 1, Spring 2023, pp7-25
598			_aNATSEC
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13439006.2023.2198854 _zClick here for full text
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