Japan's Nuclear Disarmament Policy and the U.S. Security Umbrella [Hardcover]

This book explores the apparent contradictions behind Japan's stated goal of nuclear disarmament and its tacit acceptance of being protected by the U.S. nuclear umbrella.Detoured on the Path to Nuclear Disarmament The Watershed Technology, Choice and Nuclear Weapons The Politics of Japanese Nuclear Disarmament: Where Government Policies and Civil Society Converge and Diverge Japanese Security Policy and the New Agenda Coalition The International Dimensions of Japan's Anti-Nuclear Weapons Policies: Issues in Disarmament and Nonproliferation Tokyo and the Axis of Evil Security and Identity

Japan's Nuclear Disarmament and the U.S. Security Umbrella is a good guide to understand how the A-bombed country [Japan]'syearning for nuclear abolition has beencompromised by Tokyo's U.S.-centered security policy, whose top priority is to notharmthe myth of American nuclear deterrence. - Motofumi Asai, Director, Hiroshima Peace Institute DiFilippo's laborious and thoughtful work raises an important question: How can the international community save the Government of Japan (GoJ) as a key player for nuclear disarmament? This book pinpoints the 'ensuing struggles between cultural pacifism, emergent nationalism, and ongoing pressure from Washington' in the GoJ's balancing act in its slippery stance toward nuclear disarmament. With ample illustrative stories, DiFilippo's analyses of the driving forces working Japanese politics give readers clues to further actions and events for effective use of the Japan card to the cause of nuclear disarmament. - Hiromichi Umebayashi, Ph.D., Founder and President of the Peace Depot, Yokohama, Japan

ANTHONY DIFILIPPO is Professor of Sociology at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, USA.