Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of A bbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. An Approach to the Study of Defense Policy-making in Japan; Incrementalism and Japanese Defense Policy; Japan's Dependence on the U.S. Security Guarantee; Extended Liberal Democratic Party Dominance; Movement of Parties Toward the Political Center; Ministry of Finance Constraints on Defense; The Structural Constraints of State Governance; 2. The Establishment of Defense Constraints; Ideological Polarization Over Defense; Pressures for Limits on Defense
Establishing Quantitative ConstraintsThe National Defense Program Outline; Japanese Defense Plans in the Late 1970s; 3. Fiscal Restraint Versus U.S. Pressures for Greater Defense Efforts; The Shift to Greater Emphasis on Defense Budgets; Changes in Opposition Party Stances on Defense; Challenges to Defense Constraints; 4. The Commitment to Attaln Defense Plans; The Assault on the One Percent of GNP Ceiling; The Economic Dimensions of U.S.-Japan Defense Relations; Technology and Security in Bilateral Relations; 5. Conclusion; Japan's Military Dependence on the United States
Liberal Democratic Party DominanceThe Opposition Parties and Defense; Ministry of Finance Constraints on Defense Budgets; Structural Constraints on Defense; Japan's Future Security Options; Bibliography; Index
