Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Cornell Studies in Security Affa
Richard J. Samuels argues that, with the end of the Cold War, Japan's security policy was thrown into flux, a state from which it has yet to emerge. All that is clear is that whatever direction things go, they will not remain the same. If the Yoshida doctrine ("cheap-riding," or letting the USA take care of Japan's security concerns while Japan takes care of business) survives at all it will be in a truncated form, and indeed it has, in Samuels's phrase, already been "salami-sliced" down to a nub of what it once was.
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