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Synopsis
With chapters on peace thought, the militarization and demilitarization of language, the aspects of the Japanese military build-up in the 1980s and the response to the Gulf War in the 1990s, this study challenges many of the preconceived notions on Japanese defense and security policies and the policymaking process in Japan. security policies and the policymaking process in Japan.
Booknews
Traces the gradual transformation of Japan into what other countries would recognize as a normal military state, the political forces supporting and opposing the change, and the values underlying the critique of militarization. Drawing on primary and secondary material relating to styles of thought and language, the military buildup during the 1980s and the response to the war on Iraq in the 1990s, finds at the center of the tension the intertwined notions of Japanese identity and military normality. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)