Japan as a ‘Global Pacifist State’: Its Changing Pacifism and Security Identity (Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l'Extrême-Orient)

This book examines Japan’s changing pacifism and its implications for Japan’s security identity from 1945 to the present. To examine the shift in Japanese pacifism, this research employs the concept of ‘negative pacifism’ (Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution) and ‘positive pacifism’ (the Preamble of the Constitution) as an analytical framework. To analyse multiple factors which facilitated the shift in Japan’s pacifism, this study applies ‘analytical eclecticism’ and integrates the analytical framework (negative-positive pacifism) with orthodox international relations theories and approaches. In an application of analytical eclecticism, the author proposes four theoretical models of Japan’s security identity: (a) ‘pacifist state’ (classical liberalism/negative pacifism); (b) ‘UN peacekeeper’ (neo-liberalism/positive pacifism); (c) ‘normal state’ (classical realism/domestic pressure); and (d) ‘US ally’ (neo-realism/external-structural pressure). In addition to the four basic models above, this book attempts to reveal Japan’s ‘core security identity’ as a ‘global pacifist state’. This book examines Japanâ€TMs changing pacifism and its implications for Japanâ€TMs security identity from 1945 to the present. To examine the shift in Japanese pacifism, this research employs the concept of †̃negative pacifismâ€TM (Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution) and †̃positive pacifismâ€TM (the Preamble of the Constitution) as an analytical framework. To analyse multiple factors which facilitated the shift in Japanâ€TMs pacifism, this study applies †̃analytical eclecticismâ€TM and integrates the analytical framework (negative-positive pacifism) with orthodox international relations theo Cover Table of Contents 7 Acknowledgements 9 Abstract 11 List of Abbreviations 13 A Note on Spelling 17 Introduction Pacifism and Security Identity of Japan 19 Chapter One Japan as a ‘Pacifist State’: Security Policy 1945–1990 53 Chapter Two: Japan as a ‘UN Peace-Keeper’ in Cambodia 91 Chapter Three Japan as a ‘UN Peace-Builder’ in East Timor 129 Chapter Four: Japan as a ‘US Ally’ in Response to the War on Terror 165 Chapter Five Japan as a ‘Global Pacifist State’: The Future of the Peace Constitution and Japan’s Core Security Identity 205 Conclusion 245 Bibliography 253 Index 277 This book examines Japan’s changing pacifism and security identity in an application of analytical eclecticism. Four theoretical perspectives of Japan’s security identity (pacifist state, UN peacekeeper, normal state, US ally) are examined as case studies. This book attempts to reveal Japan’s ‘core security identity’ as a ‘global pacifist state’.