Governing Insecurity in Japan: The Domestic Discourse and Policy Response
Language: English
Pages: 199
ISBN: 113862912X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Since the end of the Cold War, Japan's security environment has changed significantly. While, on the global level, the United States is still Japan's most important security partner, the nature of the partnership has changed as a result of shifting demands from the United States, new international challenges such as the North Korean nuclear programme and the rapid rise of China.
At the same time, Japan has been confronted with new, non-traditional security threats such as international terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases, and global environmental problems. On the domestic level, demographic change, labour migration, economic decline, workplace insecurity, and a weakening impact of policy initiatives challenge the sustainability of the lifestyle of many Japanese and have led to a heightened sense of insecurity among the Japanese public.
This book focuses on the domestic discourse on insecurity in Japan and goes beyond military security. The chapters cover issues such as Japan s growing perception of regional and global insecurity; the changing role of military forces; the perceived risk of Chinese foreign investment; societal, cultural and labour insecurity and how it is affected by demographic changes and migration; as well as food insecurity and its challenges to health and public policy. Each chapter asks how the Japanese public perceives these insecurities; how these perceptions influence the public discourse, the main stakeholders of this discourse, and how this affects state-society relations and government policies. "
Governing Insecurity in Japan provides new insights into Japanese and international discourses on security and insecurity, and the ways in which security is conceptualized in Japan. As such, it will be of interest to students and scholars working on Japanese politics, security studies and international relations.
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2001; Kyōdō 2001; BBC News October 4, 1999). The MIT and a 2001 parliamentary delegation, however, had failed to foresee emotional protests at Dili airport against the brutal occupation by imperial Japanese forces as well as East Timorese “comfort women” coerced into prostitution, and Japanese concerted efforts to ignore them hardly reduced tensions (Tjandraningsih 2001; BBC News March 4, 2002). Despite this unexpected dissent, Japanese forces served with diligence in their human security.
Nothing else but the “defense of the nation.” This quasi-war rhetoric dichotomizes foreigners and Japanese and claims “the welfare of these two groups is mutually incompatible” (Yamamoto 2004: 39–40). Former Tokyo governor Ishihara Shintarō is one of the most outspoken protagonists of the foreign crime discourse. He suggested that immigration administration should not be handled by the MOJ but by the National Police Agency (NPA) instead (Yamamoto 2004: 40). The police’s stance on immigration.
And endeavoring to build a relationship on an equal footing” (MIC 2007: 2). Actually, tabunkakyōsei policies at the local level more or less concern issues that are cultural in nature. A brief look at the list of local tabunkakyōsei policies indicates that most of them concern issues of language, education, and cultural exchange (see Tegtmeyer Pak 2006). Similarly, the MIC study group’s report focuses, apart from disaster measures, mainly on the question of how to overcome language and cultural.
Threat is based on statistical pseudo-evidence, on a war-like rhetoric, and on biased and sensationalist media coverage. Moreover, it is embedded in a general moral panic about crime, in an ample new feeling of insecurity and of distrust in the abilities of the police in recent years. In contrast to the discourse of foreign nationals as an internal security threat, public security has not strongly deteriorated in recent years, nor are foreign nationals a criminal threat to Japan. Arguments about.
Decline in the official crime-clearance rate (Matsubara 2003). Or leaders of Nippon Keidanren might hide the need for foreign workers in their companies respectively by their subcontractors behind a general argument of an unavoidable necessity to introduce foreign workers in view of Japan’s demographic transformation. In this way, they can portray themselves as thoughtful economic leaders who are primarily caring about the future of the whole nation. They can prevent criticism that Japanese.