Rethinking Japanese public opinion and security : from pacifism to realism? / Paul Midford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Public attitudes, opinion, and the conditions for policy influence -- Views on the utility of military force and America's use of force -- Reassessing public opinion during the Cold War -- The First Gulf War -- International peacekeeping and the U.S. alliance in the 1990s -- Japanese public opinion and responses to 9-11 and the Afghan invasion -- The Iraq War and the SDF -- Reversing course : an Iraq syndrome in Japan.

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In this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of Japan's military power, in which Japanese troops would fight alongside their American counterparts in various conflicts worldwide. Midford argues that Japanese public opinion has never embraced pacifism. It has, instead, contained significant elements of realism, in that it has acknowledged the utility of military power for defending national territory and independence, but has seen offensive military power as ineffective fo.

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