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DiFilippo, Anthony. "Japanese Nuclear Disarmament Policies, Practices and National Identity" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p71234_index.html>

DiFilippo, A. , 2005-03-05 "Japanese Nuclear Disarmament Policies, Practices and National Identity" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p71234_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: As the only country to have ever experienced the death and destruction caused by atomic warfare, Japan appeared to take advantage of the end of the Cold War by developing and promulgating policies that sought to rid the world of all nuclear weapons. But the end of the Cold War created another serious policy issue for Japan. The argument emerged in Japan that it needed to become a normal country, that is, a nation with a military force unconstrained by Article 9 - the Japanese pacifist constitutional clause prohibiting the use of force to resolve international conflict. The acquisition of a normal country status would mean that Japan could actively participate in international security. Although introduced by the political right, Japanese efforts to become a normal country slowly became part of mainstream policy thinking in Japan. This thinking moved Tokyo to strengthen its security alliance with the United States and to reason that Japan's place under the American nuclear umbrella was necessary and that it should not be put in jeopardy. Tokyo therefore has been playing two disparate security roles in recent years: one that recognizes the need to develop its military capabilities so that they are consistent with U.S. objectives, and the other that promotes the abolition of nuclear weapons. By engaging Japan in activities that have different political objectives, and as if involvement in one is disassociated from the other, Tokyo has created a serious national identity problem. Tokyo's pursuit of a normal country status and its strengthened security alliance with the United States have undermined its efforts to promote nuclear disarmament and even encouraged leading Japanese statesmen to speculate that perhaps the possession of nuclear weapons by Japan would be acceptable.

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