Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power

by Sheila A. Smith

Book Overview

Japan's U.S.-imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, as Sheila Smith shows, a nuclear North Korea and an increasingly assertive China have the Japanese rethinking that commitment, and their reliance on United States security.

Japan has one of Asia's most technologically advanced militaries and yet struggles to use its hard power as an instrument of national policy. The horrors of World...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674987640
• ISBN13: 9780674987647
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"