National Security Research Project

PROJECT LEADER:

• Akihiko Tanaka (Professor, University of Tokyo)
  

PROJECT MEMBERS

• Ken Jimbo (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Department of Policy Management, Keio University; Visiting Lecturer, National Defense Academy in Japan)
• Tsuneo Watanabe (Adjunct Fellow, Center for Strategic & International Studies)
  

PROGRAM OFFICERS:

• Hikaru Hiranuma (The Tokyo Foundation)
• Shoichi Katayama (The Tokyo Foundation)

Japan’s security environment is complex, encompassing North Korea’s nuclear weapons development; China’s rise to economic and military might; Taiwan, bearing the seeds of Sino-American conflict; Russia, still struggling in post–Cold War confusion; and Southeast Asia, where Islamic fundamentalism is gaining ground.

To face these situations Japan needs a comprehensive security policy that bolsters its own defense and diplomacy with coordinated activities within the frameworks of the Japan-US alliance and the United Nations. Participants in this project analyze Japan’s security since the release of the 2004 National Defense Program Outline, producing original guidelines for a new Japanese security policy.