The Abe Doctrine Japan's Proactive Pacifism and Security Strategy
This book focuses on Prime Minister Abe’s policy toward international peace and security proposed in 2013 under the basic principle of ‘proactive contribution to peace’. To this end, this book investigates Prime Minister Abe’s policy-making process of the
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Daisuke Akimoto
The Abe Doctrine
Daisuke Akimoto
The Abe Doctrine Japan’s Proactive Pacifism and Security Strategy
Daisuke Akimoto Tokyo, Japan
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Acknowledgments
When I resigned from Soka University Peace Research Institute as Assistant Professor and began working as Policy Secretary in the House of Representatives in the beginning of 2015, Japanese Diet Members and bureaucrats had discussed and prepared for the enactment of the Peace and Security Legislation under the Abe administration. Most of this book’s manuscript was drafted during the Abe government, while observing the enactment process and deliberations of the Peace and Security Legislation in the Japanese National Diet, and working to a Diet member, Yasuhiro Nakagawa. First, I would like to express my appreciation to Yasuhiro Nakagawa (Komeito Legislator in the House of Representatives), Yusuke Onda (Policy Secretary in the House of Councillors), and Michio Kawahito (Former President of Komeito Secretary Association in the House of Representatives) for providing me this opportunity to research in Nagata- cho surrounded by academic and government sources. Second, I am grateful to special lectures on foreign and security policy by Makoto Iokibe (Emeritus Professor of Kobe University), Koji Murata (Professor and Form
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