Reforma domeniului securităţii naţionale în Japonia – între Hachiman şi Amaterasu
National security reform in Japan - between Hachiman and Amaterasu

Summary/Abstract: In the context of the galloping increase in Asia-Pacific tensions and the rise in China’s geostrategic profile, the Japanese government, led by Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, has decided to reform the area of national security – from legislation and organizational structures to doctrines and strategies of force categories,respectively the revival of Japan’s security policy. The Abe Administration has launched several significant initiatives (such as the establishment of the National Security Council, the adoption of the first National Security Strategy, the adoption of the State Secret Act, the adoption of new rules on the export of military technology and equipment, the regulation of the right to collective self-defense and the extension of the spectrum of activities that the Japanese Self-Defense Forces can deploy) generating, for the first time in Japan’s post-war history, a radical change in defense policy and restoring, at least partially, the image of the old imperial Japan,despite domestic and international criticism.

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