SECURITY STUDIES 2（国）

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Subtitle	Analysis of Japan’s National Security and Defense Policy through the White Paper on Defense
Lecturer(s)	TOKUCHI, HIDESHI
Credit(s)	2
Academic Year/Semester	2023 Spring
Day/Period	Tue.2
Campus	Mita
Class Format	Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person)
Registration Number	99308
Faculty/Graduate School	LAW
Department/Major	POLITICAL SCIENCE
Year Level	3, 4
Field	POLITICAL SCIENCE
K-Number	FLP-PS-34263-212-06

Course Administrator	Faculty/Graduate School	FLP	LAW
Course Administrator	Department/Major	PS	POLITICAL SCIENCE
Main Course Number	Level	3	Third-year level coursework
	Major Classification	4	Major Field Course
	Minor Classification	26	Developmental - International Politics
	Subject Type	3	Elective subject
Supplemental Course Information	Class Classification	2	Lecture
	Class Format	1	Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person)
	Language of Instruction	2	English
Academic Discipline		06	Political science and related fields

Course Contents/Objectives/Teaching Method/Intended Learning Outcome

This course will look into the international security environment surrounding Japan, and analyzes Japan’s new national security and defense policy as well as its challenges so that the students obtain basic knowledge on Japan’s national security in the current turning point as a basis for their conduct of international security study in Japan.
The course is combination of lectures and some class discussion.
As the basis for the class discussion, the instructor will give lectures, based on his long experience in the Government of Japan for the planning and implementation of the national security and defense policy, particularly in the fields of legislation, policy framework, Japan-US Alliance and international security cooperation.
The students are required to be ready for each session by reading the relevant part of the White Paper in advance.

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Textbooks

1. The Ministry of Defense, Defense of Japan 2022, 2022. It is the annual white paper on defense. The pdf file of the publication is also available at the following website: https://www.mod.go.jp/en/publ/w_paper/wp2022/DOJ2022_EN_Full_02.pdf
2. Cabinet Decision, “National Security Strategy of Japan” Provisional Translation, December 16, 2022:
https://www.mod.go.jp/j/approach/agenda/guideline/pdf/security_strategy_en.pdf
3. Cabinet Decision, “National Defense Strategy” Provisional Translation, December 16, 2022:
https://www.mod.go.jp/j/approach/agenda/guideline/strategy/pdf/strategy_en.pdf

Reference Books

As the entire reading list exceeds the size limit of the course syllabus, the list for the first two sessions will be shown here. The entire list will be distributed separately.

For Session 1
Gideon Rose, “Foreign Policy for Pragmatists: How Biden Can Learn from History in Real Time,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 100, No. 2, March/April 2021, pp. 48-56.

For Session 2
The National Institute for Defense Studies, East Asian Strategic Review 2022, 2022, Chapter 8. ISBN: 978-4-86482-107-0. It is also available at:
http://www.nids.mod.go.jp/english/publication/east-asian/pdf/2022/e2022_all.pdf.
Hideshi Tokuchi, “The revision of Japan’s National Security Strategy,” The European – Security and Defence Union, No. 44, November 2022, pp. 12-13, www.magazine-the-european.com.
Hideshi Tokuchi, “Toward a Formulation of a New “National Security Strategy” and Key Security Policy Documents – Expectations, Anxieties, and Some Proposals,” Security Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 2022, pp. 117-135. ISBN: 978-4-909962-15-7.

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