The JSDF 2.0: Domestic social norms, external defense challenges, and combat capabilities, 2013-2016

• Main Author: Castillo, Santiago Juditho Emmanuel Laurel
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Japan > Armed Forces; Japan > Foreign relations > China; Japan > Foreign relations > North Korea; Japan > Foreign relations > United States
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/5549; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12387&context=etd_masteral
• Institution: De La Salle University

This research argues that the Japan Self Defense-Forces combat capabilities are evolving while at the same time being shaped by Japans domestic antimilitarist norms as well on-going yet salient external defense imperatives. The JSDF during the second and current term of Japans Prime Minister Shinzo...