Japan
A Normal State?
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https://doi.org/10.21530/ci.v14n1.2019.887Resumen
This article seeks to demonstrate that Japan throughout time has made gradual adjustments
throughout time to increase its military capacities, in order to regain autonomy in relation to
its defence. With this process of “adjustment”, without constitutional reforms, Japan presently
possesses military capabilities that are similar to those of the primary global powers in terms
of budget, technologically advanced military resources, manpower, and it masters the entire
cycle for the production of a nuclear weapon. In an unstable regional scenario, entwined
with the rise of threat to Japan’s strategic and economic security and with the increase of the
possibility of being abandoned by the United States, what is preventing Japan in claiming
its defence autonomy and taking collective security actions? The first part of this reflection
introduces some concepts that indicate the contradictions, paradoxes, and fundaments that
underpin the construction of the Japanese security identity. The second part concentrates on
the analysis of the tendency of revision or of reinterpretation of the Japanese Constitution
with regards to possessing Armed Forces as a foreign policy instrument.
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