In December 2010, Japan adopted the National Defence Programme Guidelines (Ndpg) The 2010 Ndpg do not introduce radical changes to Japan’s defence and security policies, but instead adjust the country’s defence and military strategies and capabilities to the realities of the North East Asian security environment characterised by a possibly nuclear-armed North Korea and a China which is becoming increasingly assertive (and indeed at times aggressive) when dealing with disputed territories in the East China and South China Seas. Tokyo’s new defence guidelines confirm that the officially pacifist Japan can (almost) do anything ‘normal’ non-pacifist countries do to defend its national territory.
Japan’s new national defence programme guidelines (NDPG)-implications for japanese regional and global security and defence policies
BERKOFSKY, AXEL
2012-01-01
Abstract
In December 2010, Japan adopted the National Defence Programme Guidelines (Ndpg) The 2010 Ndpg do not introduce radical changes to Japan’s defence and security policies, but instead adjust the country’s defence and military strategies and capabilities to the realities of the North East Asian security environment characterised by a possibly nuclear-armed North Korea and a China which is becoming increasingly assertive (and indeed at times aggressive) when dealing with disputed territories in the East China and South China Seas. Tokyo’s new defence guidelines confirm that the officially pacifist Japan can (almost) do anything ‘normal’ non-pacifist countries do to defend its national territory.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
