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  title info:
    title: Japan's aging peace
    sub title: pacifism and militarism in the twenty-first century
  name:
    name part: Le, Tom Phuong
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Since the end of World War II, Japan has not sought to remilitarize, and its postwar constitution commits to renouncing aggressive warfare. Yet many inside and outside Japan have asked whether the country should or will return to commanding armed forces amid an increasingly challenging regional and global context and as domestic politics have shifted in favor of demonstrations of national strength. Tom Phuong Le offers a novel explanation of Japan's reluctance to remilitarize that foregrounds the relationship between demographics and security. Japan's Aging Peace demonstrates how changing perceptions of security across generations has culminated in a culture of antimilitarism that constrains the government's efforts to pursue a more martial foreign policy. Le challenges a simple opposition between militarism and pacifism, arguing that Japanese security discourse should be understood in terms of "multiple militarisms," which can legitimate choices such as the mobilization of the Japan Self-Defense Forces for peacekeeping operations and humanitarian relief missions. Le highlights how factors that are not typically linked to security policy, such as aging and declining populations and gender inequality, have played crucial roles. He contends that the case of Japan challenges the presumption in international relations scholarship that states must pursue the use of force or be punished, showing how widespread normative beliefs have restrained Japanese policy makers. Drawing on interviews with policymakers, military personnel, atomic bomb survivors, museum coordinators, grassroots activists and other stakeholders, as well as analysis of peace museums and social movements, Japan's Aging Peace provides new insights for scholars of Asian politics, international relations and Japanese foreign policy.
  table of contents: Japan's aging peace -- Multiple militarisms -- Who will fight? The JSDF's demographic crisis -- Technical-infrastructural constraints and the capacity crises -- Antimilitarism and the politics of restraint -- Peace culture and normative restraints -- Crafting peace among militarisms -- Aging gracefully -- Appendix A: The guidelines for Japan-U.S. defense cooperation -- Appendix B: Peace and war museums in Japan.
  note: Tom Phuong Le.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ja---
  subject:
    topic: Militarism
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: Pacifism
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: National security
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: Public opinion
    geographic: Japan
  classification: UA845 .L42 2021
  classification: 303.6/60952
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contemporary Asia in the world
  identifier: 9780231199780
  identifier: 0231199783
  identifier: 9780231199797
  identifier: 0231199791
  identifier: 9780231553285
  identifier: 2020051786
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201127
    record change date: 20211018101545.0
    record identifier: in00004444950