Japan Asia After The Cold War, Military And Diplomatic Study

Military diplomacy deals with the military and political relations between countries by peaceful means. As a strategic statement, military diplomacy converts the national diplomacy and military strategy aims into reality through different kinds of military contact. As a part of the whole national diplomacy, it has a close relation with the national security strategy and is an important way to guarantee the national security as well.Political democratization, economic globalization and international structure multipolarization are the three trends in the world after the Cold War and the chance to world war decreases. However, as a member of Asian-Pacific Ocean nations, Japan think that the unstable and uncertain facts increase in the Asian-Pacific region after collapse of the bipolarization. What above is the Janpan's opinion about the world condition in post-cold war times. Japan maps out new national security strategy according to these judgments. Protecting Japan and improving international security atmosphere are the two basic objects in the new strategy. "self-help"strategy, alliance strategy and security regime strategy are the three backbones in Japan's new security strategy blue-map. Golf war provides a chance for Japan and Japan takes a part in the UN peacekeeping practice. From then on, Japan starts to carry out the military diplomacy. Generally speaking, Japan's military diplomacy includes four parts: military diplomacy with America taking Japan-America alliance as a center;military diplomacy and political security dialogue with China;military diplomacy with Russian and South Korean.Japan's military diplomacy in the Asian-Pacific Ocean area after the cold war promotes the military of Japan and supports Japan to be a political power. It resolves the alliance dilemma between Japan and America and the two sides find out the new common interest point to make the alliance continue. Besides, Japan' military diplomacy gets rid of obstruction of security cooperation and strengthens the message communication and shared idea, which does good to the construction of the regional security regime.Japan's military diplomacy will influence the developing road of Japan, security condition of Asian-Pacific region and Chinese security surrounding, Japan's military diplomacy breaks down all the rules which define the Japanese military development. Therefore, Japan is going to be a military power in Asian. So, the security structure of Asian-Pacific area will change. The conflicts and contradictions in the change process lead to unsteadiness in that area. The rising of Japan as a new military power will challenge and threaten Chinese military security and political security potentially. Therefore, Chinese government should make out the right Japan policy.