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New Japan Self-Defense Force Missions under the “Proactive Contribution to Peace” Policy: Significance of the 2015 Legislation for Peace and Security

The bills under “the Legislation for Peace and Security” (hereafter “the Legislation”), a series of defense policy reforms passed in Japan’s Diet (parliament) last fall, went into effect in March 2016. The debate about the new legislation generated many arguments including such comments as “Japan is once again becoming a war-waging country like the former Imperial Japan.” Similar critiques can still be heard today, though public debate has subsided since the Diet passed the bills. Some of Japan’s neighbors seemed to share the views expressed in such criticism, but that does not correspond with what is prescribed in reality.

Newsletter by Atsuhiko Fujishige — July 21, 2016