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Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice
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Stanford University Press
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2008 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
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Oros, Andrew.
Normalizing Japan: politics, identity, and the evolution of security practice /
Andrew L. Oros.
p. cm. (Studies in Asian security)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8047-0029-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Security, InternationalJapan. 2. MilitarismJapan. I. Title.
JZ6009.J3076 2008
355'.033052 DC22 2007038750

This book is printed on acid-free, archival-quality paper.

Typeset at Stanford University Press in 10/13.5 Bembo

ISBN 978-0-8047-7850-3 (electronic)

TO MY FAMILY

Preface

My first contact with Japan was in Los Angeles at the height of Japan's economic boom (later seen as bubble). It was an outwardly self-confident Japan I experienced, often telling America how it needed to reform its inefficient and profligate ways. As a young student anxious about my own future, I was drawn to learn more. In Japan, however, I learned and read that under this confident exterior was a nation deeply questioning what was at its essence, and what it should seek to project to others. Bookstores in the 1980s were full of lengthy pseudo-academic treatises on what it meant to be Japanesethe so-called nihonjinron (treatises on Japaneseness). Any student of Japanese trade policy at the time would see the effect of this self-conceived unique identity on policy. METI (then MITI) trade ministers were famous for their assertions that foreign skis had to be tested on unique Japanese snow, that Japanese stomachs digested foreign beef differently, and that not a single grain of foreign rice could be allowed to pollute Japanese cuisine.

Times have changed. Japan's national self-confidence was shattered by the collapse of the bubble economy, fueling a new, yet related, literature on what place Japan had in the world if not to spread its superior economic practices. The death of the Showa emperor, Hirohito, and end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union (if not the Cold War in East Asia related to North Korea and China) further pushed Japan to reconsider its identity. As this process continues, Japan's security practices are being transformed. Japan may not ever become normal from the perspective of a foreigner, but the process by which it seeks to become so nevertheless can be understood.

The past sixty years of Japanese historical development have been a time of incredible social change and great economic success, and as well, a continuing battle to imagine and reimagine Japan's place in a hostile world. At the turn of the new century Japan faces not only a new domestic demographic and political composition, but a shifting and dangerous international environment as well. In this context it is seeking either to build a new security identity to ground its defense policies or to reform the security identity that contributed so much to the previous half century of peace and prosperity. This book explains the politics of this fundamentally political process in Japan and, more broadly, suggests some theoretical insights that can be applied from the Japanese case to other states grappling with security issues in the past and into the twenty-first century.

This book would not have been possible without the intellectual, logistical, and emotional support of a large number of peopleto whom I owe a great debt. Research for this project has been supported by generous grants from Columbia University, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP), the Japanese Ministry of Education, the Smith Richardson Foundation, Washington College, and the Weatherhead Foundation. I acknowledge in particular grants from the Japan Foundation CGP and the Washington College Christian A. Johnson Fellowship for funding of a one-year junior sabbatical leave to complete the final work on this manuscript.

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