Political Influence on Japanese Nuclear and Security Policy: New Forces Face Large Obstacles

dc.contributor.authorTatsumi, Yuki
dc.contributor.authorWeiner, Robert
dc.contributor.corporateCenter on Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
dc.contributor.departmentNational Security Affairs
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-03T21:49:00Z
dc.date.available2014-04-03T21:49:00Z
dc.date.issued2014-02
dc.description.abstractJapan’s nuclear weapons policy has long enjoyed a stable, if somewhat internally inconsistent, equilibrium. Anti-proliferation efforts co-exist with reliance upon the United States’ nuclear deterrent, alongside dependence on a nuclear energy program robust enough to potentially support nuclear weapons capability. These policies have been promoted and maintained by Japan’s bureaucracy rather than by political bargains, with their bureaucratic proponents separately stovepiped rather than organized into a coherent whole. But new developments appear to leave Japan’s nuclear security policy – and its relations with the U.S. over this policy – in flux. New threats and changing public attitudes are gradually eroding taboos on nuclear weapons. New or newly energized political actors stand to amplify the impact of such public opinion shifts. A more actively nuclear Japan could destabilize the U.S.-Japan alliance, raise nuclear weapons levels in Asia, and undercut Japan’s role as a model nonnuclear ally; on the other hand, new anti-nuclear sentiment could hinder ongoing U.S.- Japan nuclear dialogue...en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipU.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC), Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD (PASCC)en_US
dc.identifier.npsreport2014-004
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/40223
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherMonterey, California: Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.titlePolitical Influence on Japanese Nuclear and Security Policy: New Forces Face Large Obstaclesen_US
dc.title.alternativeProject Name: Strategic Impact of Shifting Nuclear Security Consciousness in Japan, Phase IIen_US
dc.typeReporten_US
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