The Tools of Owatatsumi: Japan's Ocean Surveillance and Coastal Defence Capabilities

by Desmond Ball and Richard Tanter

Japan is quintessentially by geography a maritime country. Maritime surveillance capabilities - underwater, shore-based and airborne - are critical to its national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these capabilities, with particular respect to the underwater segment, about which there is little strategic analysis in publicly available literature. Since the end of the Cold War, Chinese oceanographic and navy vessels have intruded into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925022269
• ISBN13: 9781925022261
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.8"