The modern Japanese military system

James H. Buck

INTRODUCTION                                                                                        9

I. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

Leonard A. Humphreys                                                                     21

THE JAPANESE MILITARY TRADITION

Martin E. Weinstein                                                                           41

THE EVOLUTION OF THE JAPAN

SELF-DEFENSE FORCES

II. INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

Thomas M. Brendle                                                                           67

RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING IN THE SDF

III. CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS

Theodore McNelly                                                                             99

THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF JAPAN’S

DEFENSE ESTABLISHMENT

David R. Hopper                                                                                113

DEFENSE POLICY AND THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY:

THE KEIDANREN DEFENSE PRODUCTION

COMMITTEE

Douglas H. Mendel, Jr.                                                                      149

PUBLIC VIEWS OF THE JAPANESE

DEFENSE SYSTEM

Gaston J. Sigur                                                                                   181

POWER, POLITICS, AND DEFENSE

IV. THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

Evelyn Colbert                                                                                    199

NATIONAL SECURITY PERSPECTIVES:

JAPAN AND ASIA

James H. Buck                                                                                    219

THE JAPANESE MILITARY IN THE 1980s

V. APPENDICES

A. Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between

The United States of America and Japan                                                        235

B. National Defense Expenditures in 10 Countries                                        239

C. Military Manpower in 22 Countries                                                           240

D. Japanese Defense Expenditures, 1951-1974                                              241

E. Personnel Strengths of Self-Defense Forces and

U.S. Forces in Japan                                                                                        242

Bibliography                                                                                                   243

Notes on the Contributors                                                                               251