The New Japan-US Security System And Japan's Normal Country Strategy

In the premise of a significant increase in economic strength,Japan proposed to become a normal country.In view of the alliance between Japan and America,it is necessary to study the role of America in the realization of Japan's strategy.After elaborating Japan's normal country strategy and the Japan-US security system,this paper focuses on the analysis of the relationship between them.This paper believes that the new Japan-US security system had both positive and negative influence on Japan's normal country strategy.Although the new Japan-US security system had a negative impact on Japan's normal country strategy,but within a short time,Japan can not break through the system.This means that Japan can not really become a normal country.Shortly after World War ?,America took non-militarism actions toward Japan,and Japan became different from normal country.Later,America chose Japan to serve for its Asia-Pacific strategy.Under this circumstance,America sought to sign Treaty of Peace and Security Treaty with Japan,forming Japan-US security system.According to the Japan-US Security System,America was responsible for Japan's security and had access to Japan's military base and facilities.With America's military protection,Japan could do its utmost to recovery and develop economy.At the same time,Japan developed something useful for later normal country strategy,such as the Police Reserve,the Marine guard,the Self-Defense Force and the Two Laws of Defense.Japan's normal country strategy was formally discussed in 90s 20th century.Th-e strategy was rooted in the history after World War II.It was a mix of neo-conservatism and neo-nationalism and based on social changes of Japan in 90s 20th century.What is the meaning of normal country strategy?It means the harmonious development of various strength including political strength,economic strength,military strength,social strength and so on.Because Japan's disability in military is the focus,it is acceptable that this essay aims at the narrow explanation of normal country strategy,also known as military progress.Actually,the real significance of normal country strategy was the pursuit of liberty,e-quality and being an leading country.Affected by the normal country strategy,Japan tried to amend the Constitution,change the defense strategy and develop the Self-Defense Force.The new Japan-US security system represents the pursuit of normal country strategy and the return of America's security thinking.The background in 90s 20th century was different from situations which dated back to the end of World War ?,such as the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the breakdown of the Communism camp.This brought an impact on the Japan-US Security System.As time went by,Japan's power achieved giant development while America's power experiencing a decline.As a result,America treated the security relationship with economic thinking.Meanwhile,Japan questioned the Japan-US security system because of the normal country strategy.Driven by internal and external changes,the Japan-US security system was inopportune or inappropriate.After a period of strategic confusion,America and Japan agreed on developing the new Japan-US security system.America signed the Japan-US Security Joint Declaration with Japan in 1996,forming the new Japan-US Security System.According to the theory of alliance,we can conclude that the new Japan-US Security System had double effects on Japan's normal country strategy.Through the analysis of the concept of 'following' and so on,it was obvious that the new Japan-US Security System promote Japan's normal country strategy.The formation of the new Japan-US Security System was part of Japan's normal country strategy.It also provided an important platform for Japan to achieve the goals of normal country strategy.In addition,the security system created a favorable environment for normal country strategy.At some degree,Japan's normal country strategy did take advantage from the new Japan-US Security System,such as the substantial development of the Self-Defense Force and so on.But the strategy was hindered by the system in light of the theory of dilemma in alliance.Because of the new Japan-US security system,Japan depended more in the alliance with America which postpone the realization of normal country strategy.America also used the new Japan-US security system to regulate the direction of Japan's normal country strategy,for example restraining Japan's self-defence tendency.America has made some concessions to Japan and help Japan make some progress in normal country strategy.But it did not mean that America really support Japan's normal country strategy.America did this only in order to maintain the survival of the union,and try to keep Japan within the union.Meanwhile,Japan may be influenced by America's strategy and dragged into an irrelevant dispute.Although the new Japan-US security system restricted the realization of normal country strategy,it was reasonable for Japan to keep the security relationship with America.In that case,Japan could count on America to gain security and try to make some progress in the normal country strategy.In another words,Japan can not realize the normal country strategy in a short time.