Japan 's Marine Strategy In The New Century And Its Impact On China

In modern times, Japan has been pursuing a strategy of military expansion ocean, thecontinent as a secondary expansion policy, repeatedly provoke war at sea in the Asia-Pacificregion, but ultimately failed miserably in the Pacific War. During the Cold War, Japan learnedprewar lessons, and ultimately developed a "special defense" principle of maritime securitystrategy, On the basis of the reconstruction of the armed forces at sea; there were moderatedevelopment, backed by the strength of American sea power to defend the maritime security.Since the new century, the role of maritime rights and interests in the maintenance of maritimesecurity and national interests should not be underestimated; many countries in order to maintainthe country’s maritime rights and interests have been stepping up development of maritimestrategy in line with the national reality. Japan has been in the marine national identity itself,Japan always concerned about the complicated international situation, based on accelerating thepace of adjustment of national maritime strategy. From a geopolitical perspective, theAsia-Pacific region is particularly prominent changes in the political landscape, China and Indiacontribute to the rise. Japan is the world’s second largest economy country, but there is nopolitical power status, In the face of emerging powers continued to rise and the consequentchanges in the international system, the Japanese attempted to redefine their national identity.This is the main reason for the introduction of Japan’s maritime strategy in the new century.Japan has a pivotal role in the Asia-Pacific region. On the one hand it continues to containChina, on the other hand, there are also subject to repression in Russia on which the UnitedStates truly strategic bases. In the new century Japan’s maritime strategy focus on theAsia-Pacific region, and its pro-American and regional significantly are more conducive tosafeguarding the strategic interests of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, while becauseof Japan’s maritime strategy in the new century maritime order in Asia Pacific has undergonenew changes, inducing introduced in many countries around the new maritime strategy. China isJapan’s maritime neighbors. With the adjustment of Japanese maritime strategy, its maintenanceof maritime rights and interests and maritime security have also suffered a certain degree of challenge.This paper from the formation and development of the Japan’s maritime strategy, theintroduction of the background of Japan’s Marine Strategy in the new century, content andcharacteristics, the analysis of the impact of the adjustment in the new century, Japan’s maritimestrategy for the country’s future development and the ocean to the United States-Japan allianceand China caused as well as some measures to deal with Japan’s maritime strategy in the newcentury in China.This paper is divided into four parts:The first part on the basis of understanding the connotation of the Japanese maritimestrategy elaborated the formation and development of Japan’s maritime strategy. The formationand development of Japan’s maritime strategy experience a very long period of time. Japanesemodern maritime strategy initially formed when the Meiji Restoration. It experienced theSino-Japanese War, the development of Russo-Japanese War period, peaked during the twoworld wars, but in the World War II it began to decline, and recover again during the Cold Warand it began to stir in the new century.The second part discusses the background of introduce and the content and features andaction in the new century. The introduction of Japan’s maritime strategy in the new century,based on both the theoretical and realistic requirements, contains a wide range of content, mainlyincluding Japanese marine development plan, the Japanese maritime defense policy, foreignpolicy and the Japan Marine perfect Japanese maritime legislation, Respectively from the face ofthe economic, military, diplomatic, legal Quartet content of the new century Japan madeelaborate maritime strategy, which can be seen in the diversity of Japan’s expansionary maritimestrategy in the new century with a maritime rights and interests, strategic objectives, strategiespointing targeted, strategic means characteristic of diversity. It plays an important role instrengthening the concept of Japan as a strategic maritime nation and identities, promoting thepace of ocean founding enhance marine science and technology strength, and improvingmaritime legislation, improving maritime administration, strengthening the comprehensivemanagement and utilization of the oceans, protecting the safety of sea lanes etc.The third part mainly focuses on the impact of Japan’s maritime strategy for China in thenew century. Japan’s maritime strategy in the new century not only makes it difficult to establish multilateral diplomacy and China’s neighboring countries, likely to be isolated, but alsoincreased the difficulty of China and the Taiwan issue to resolve maritime disputes, but also toChina poses a threat to maritime security.Part IV analyzes the positive measures to deal with Japan maritime strategy in the newcentury in China. As Japan’s neighbors, China should take active measures for theimplementation of Japan’s maritime strategy in the new century. On the one hand thedevelopment of national maritime strategy in the new century, we should build a strong navalforce to promote national maritime awareness awakening to this end; on the other hand we mustactively participate in the international construction of marine system to strengthen strategiccooperation with ocean between countries.