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Japan's Collective Self-Defense and American Strategic Policy: Everything Starts from the US-Japan Alliance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

John Junkerman  and
Magosaki Ukeru
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Abstract

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This interview with a former top official of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs was conducted immediately after the July 1, 2014 adoption of a Cabinet resolution that changed the government's long-standing position that Article 9 of Japan's Constitution prohibited the country from engaging in collective self-defense (military action in support of an ally that has come under enemy attack). The decision came just six weeks after a carefully selected advisory panel delivered a report on May 15 with a preordained conclusion—that the grounds long used to justify Japan's individual self-defense under the Constitution also apply, within limits, to the exercise of collective self-defense.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 54 , December 2012 , e178
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Footnotes

Between 2012 and 2014 we posted a number of articles on contemporary affairs without giving them volume and issue numbers or dates. Often the date can be determined from internal evidence in the article, but sometimes not. We have decided retrospectively to list all of them as Volume 10, Issue 54 with a date of 2012 with the understanding that all were published between 2012 and 2014.' As footnote