Japan's Remilitarisation

by Christopher W. Hughes

Book Overview

Is Japan on a path towards assuming a greater military role internationally, or has the recent military normalisation ground to a halt since the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi? In this book, Christopher W. Hughes assesses developments in defence expenditure, civil-military relations, domestic and international military-industrial complexes, Japan's procurement of regional and global power-projection capabilities, the expansion of US-Japan cooperation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415556929
• ISBN13: 9780415556927
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"