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 for promoting other
goals--such as suppressing terrorist networks and WMD
proliferation, or promoting democracy overseas.
Over several decades, these realist attitudes have become more
evident as the Japanese state has gradually convinced its public
that Tokyo and its military can be trusted with territorial
defense, and even with noncombat humanitarian and reconstruction
missions overseas. On this basis, says Midford, we should
re-conceptualize Japanese public opinion as attitudinal defensive
realism.
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