Arming Japan: Defense Production, Alliance Politics, and the Postwar Search for Autonomy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231102858)

Despite its Peace Constitution and close security ties to the United States, Japan designs and produces an extensive array of high-tech missiles, tanks, warships and aircraft. As much as these weapons are a testimony to the advancement of Japanese technology, they are also powerful symbols of the potential for Japanese political and military self-reliance. Yet, despite all of the advanced military hardware, Japan has not developed an autonomous military-industrial complex in the post-World War II period.

Author: Michael Green
ISBN-10: 0231102852
ISBN-13: 9780231102858
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/10/1998
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.92w x 0.47d