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Japan Defense Agency / Self-Defense Force Japan's national defense policy has been based on maintaining the 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security with the United States, under which Japan assumed unilateral responsibility for its own internal security and the United States agreed to join in Japan's defense in the event that Japan or its territories were attacked. However, the term Defense Agency is used to denote an administrative organization responsible for the management, operation, etc., of the GSDF, MSDF and ASDF, while the term SDF is used to mean armed organizations that conduct unit activities for the defense of the nation and for other purposes. Japan is a major world economic and political power, with an aggressive military tradition, resisting the development of strong armed forces. www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/japan/jda.htm

Yorkshire CND - Japan eyes joint missile production with US - 24/11/03 Defense Agency officials hope within a few years to move to development and mass production of the nose cone to protect the infrared seeker as well as rocket motors. The Defense Ministry wants to start production of some key parts for the next-generation missiles, which Japan is researching with the United States for a missile defense system, as soon as within the next few years, the Asahi Shimbun said. Japan has done joint research with the United States on developing a missile defense system after North Korea fired a ballistic missile that flew over Japan in 1998. cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/bmd/japan16.htm

Yorkshire CND - Japanese missile defense: A matter of timing - 12/9/03 The Defense Agency, however, sees no collective self-defense on the horizon, claiming that radar systems stationed on Aegis vessels would be "able to identify if the target of the incoming missiles was Japan or not". Japan's newly aroused enthusiasm for missile defense of course is not a coincidence now that the United States has decided to start deploying a global missile defense network and is equipping its own Aegis destroyers with PAC-3 systems by 2004. At least, other commentators conclude, Japan has made up its mind on missile defense after years of insisting that a decision whether to move from the "research phase" on to the "development phase" of the system is yet to be made. cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/bmd/japan11.htm

Japan Defense Agency asks for budget for Ballistic Missile Defense The Defense Agency is expected to reduce the number of Japan's tanks and some fighter jets as well as the size of Self-Defense Forces (SDF) personnel due to the reduced threat of foreign invasion, a chief concern during the Cold War. The employment of the BMD symbolises a shift in Japan's defense policy, with North Korea posing a renewed threat and high-profile terrorists acts occur with increasing frequency, especially in Asia. Defense Agency officials declined to confirm the reports nor to disclose where the missile defense equipment will be located. www.spacewar.com /2003/030829100718.14282yx9.html

Japan Defense Agency set 3 scenarios of "China attack" Japan ese Defense Agency officials established in internal meetings three scenarios of possible attacks on Japan by China as the agency prepares to revamp national defense strategy, agency sources said Sunday. The agency is planning to finish compiling by the end of November the revised defense outline, which is aimed at responding to new threats such as terrorism. While the scenarios are assumptions for discussions on Japan's future defense capability, they indicate a strong warning that China is a threat and are likely to further upset Beijing amid the ongoing political standoff over the development of gas fields in the East China Sea and the territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands. www.infowars.com /articles/world/japanese_attacks.htm

Japan plans defense against Chinese invasion - Wikinews Japan Defense Agency Director General Yoshinori Ono pointed to an incursion into the area by a Chinese nuclear submarine last November, which has raised the profile of the political dispute over administrative rights for the islands. However, in December, the state-run People's Daily newspaper editorialized that Japan's multi-year Defense Forces Reorganization Plan attempts to "play up Chinese military threats." China is also unhappy with Japan's plans to build a missile defense system in cooperation with the United States. Japan has lodged diplomatic protests to ask China to discontinue these projects, but China does not recognize Japan's claims, arguing that Chinese territorial rights end at the edge of the Asian continental shelf underneath the East China Sea. en.wikinews.org /wiki/Japan_plans_defense_against_Chinese_invasion

Japan The US is ready to help out and has very recently offered to sell Japan a few more high-tech Aegis destroyers, although the armed forces’ new self-confidence and eagerness to go shopping for new military equipment seems to be too much for the civilian bureaucrats in Japan’s Defense Agency. They are reportedly seriously concerned that military officers have increased their influence in the agency’s decision-making process through their role in planning Japan’s support for the US-led war on terrorism and in undermining the basics of Japan’s defense policy. Civilian control of the self defense forces is generally considered to be in the hands of the prime minister and the director general of the Defense Agency, although the agency's bureaucrats maintain that the principle of civilian control implies that uniformed personnel should also report to them as well as to the premier. www.atimes.com /japan-econ/DE30Dh01.html

Nat' Academies Press, Maximizing U.S. Interests in Science and Technology Relations with Japan: Report of the Defense Task Force (1995) Japan’s enforcement of its export controls allows for minor modifications on a case-by-case basis.5 However, the Defene Task Force is aware of instances in which American companies have been told by Japanese counterparts that components embodying commercial technology with minor modifications for a defense application would be prohibited. Japan, because of its relatively small geographic area, is well suited to TMD; indeed, for Japan a TMD system would approximate national missile defense. A: SUMMARY OF PAST STUDIES ON U.S.-JAPAN DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY..., pp. www.nap.edu /books/NX006023/html/36.html

AMERICAN FUTURE: Japan But the new defense plan is the first penned by the agency on the assumption of an invasion of the southern remote islands. Japan adopted plans Friday to shift its military focus away from the cold-war threat of invasion from the Soviet Union to guarding against missiles from North Korea and Chinese incursions around its southernmost islands. The agency compiled the plan in November on the assumption of an invasion of the islands located within a 1,000-km zone between the southern end of Kyushu and Taiwan. americanfuture.typepad.com /american_future/japan

Comparative Connections -- Japan and China: Waiting for Zhu... While the JDA argued that the report was simply a representation of reality, and not an effort to hype a China threat, the Mainichi speculated if this was actually the case, given the Agency's interest in the development of a theater missile defense (TMD) system and the acquisition of mid-air refueling capabilities. The Foreign Minister underscored that Japan's defense policy is "exclusively devoted to defense" and found it "unfathomable to conceive that Japan would ever engage in competitive military expansion in Asia with China ." At the same time, Japan was concerned about China's ongoing military expansion and its missile force. The article went on to warn that Tokyo was shifting from the defense of the homeland to a broader regional strategy, using China's military activities as a pretext for Japan's military expansion. www.csis.org /pacfor/cc/003Qjapan_china.html

Bulletin No 53 As missile defense proponents in Japan often emphasize,[46] it is not proliferation of missiles by North Korea or China that poses a direct threat to Japan. And, she contends, the shift in China's Japan policy, together with some other factors, led China to tone down its anti-BMD rhetoric as well.[32] The Chinese opposition to missile defense reached its peak probably by the summer of 2000, when Clinton was scheduled to make a decision on NMD deployment. For the bureaucrats, especially civilians in the Defense Agency and certain segments of the Foreign Ministry, who gradually became more interested in advancing the BMD cooperation with the United States, the public's growing recognition of the North Korean threat must have been a sort of fortune to take advantage of, to a considerable extent. www.hsfk.de /abm/bulletin/ishikawa.htm

Keiji Omor OH Inteviewi Keiichi Ito was the Director-General of the Bureau representing the Defense Agency. Defense Agency wanted to add the constitutional restraints as a condition, and the Foreign Ministry wanted to mention both the basic framework of the Security Treaty and the issue of prior consultations. In other words, the U.S. is the spear and Japan is the shield, and we should reaffirm that and clarify the role of the SDF before we study plans for joint strategic plan. www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/japan/ohmoriohinterview.htm

Japan to Reassure Asian Countries About Defense Changes The head of Japan's Defense Agency is about to embark on a six-day trip to several Asian nations to explain the country's beefed-up defense policy. Ohno said Japan's defense orientation is being revised in light of potential instability in Northeast Asia - he specifically mentioned North Korea and the Taiwan Strait - and said he would be explaining this in the countries he visits. While Japan is cutting military spending one-percent in the upcoming fiscal year - the third straight year of declines - it is increasing funding for missile defense. quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/av/2005-01-07-voa11.html

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Press Conference by the Press Secretary 28 May 1996 The Japan Defense Agency (JDA) has been conducting research and analysis activities under the law on the establishment of the JDA. A: On your first question, as I said, the internal unit of the Japan Defense Agency, the Joint Chief of Staff and the three Self Defense Forces, separately had their own unit for research and analysis. The central point of the revision is that the units which separately engaged in research and analysis at the internal unit of the Defense Agency, the Joint Chief of Staff, the Ground, the Maritime and the Air Self Defense Forces separately -- have been integrated into one, under the Joint Chief of staff. www.fas.org /irp/world/japan/528.htm

JAPAN / DEFENSE REPORT But the Defense Agency Deputy Director, General Nobumasu Ohta, denied that Japan would have the military capabilities to physically launch a pre-emptive strike against Pyongyang. The White Paper also touched on new laws that tighten defense ties between Japan and the United States. Japan was shocked last year when Pyongyang test fired a Taepodong missile that flew over the country and landed in the Pacific Ocean. www.fas.org /news/japan/990727-japan.htm

Pakistan Facts - Japan's defense agency chief to visit India Japan's defense agency chief to visit India Japan's defense chief Shigeru Ishiba will likely discuss alleged nuclear and missile proliferation between Pakistan and North Korea when he visits India this weekend, officials said Thursday. Ishiba is the first Japanese defense chief to visit India. www.pakistan-facts.com /article.php?story=20030501103423413

Japan: Hawks coming out of the woodwork While LDP defense hawks and the country's Defense Agency chief Shigeru Ishiba himself were allegedly flirting with the idea of attacking North Korea before it pulls the trigger first, it was recently revealed that Japan was looking into the feasibility of joining the nuclear-weapons club even back in the 1990s. Japan's Defense Agency insists that there have been no other studies on Japanese nuclear weapons after 1995 and claims that that study was only undertaken to "reassure" neighbors in East Asia that Japan would not go nuclear even if North Korea threatened to do so. Japan's own experience with nuclear weapons, however, might have suggested a somewhat different explanation why going nuclear should not be an option and the country's allegedly sacred three non-nuclear principles - not introducing, not possessing and not producing nuclear weapons - did not seem to be a problem back then. www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/851546/posts

Japan - The Defense Industry A secret memorandum circulating among defense contractors in 1988 estimated that lifting the export ban (that existed by general interpretation of Article 9 of the constitution) would result in Japan's capturing 45 percent of the world tank and self-propelled artillery market, 40 percent of military electronic sales, and 60 percent of naval ship construction. Japanese industrialists and defense planners seem to be inclined to be self sufficient with respect to future weapons research. In October 1985, the Defense Agency began considering three development options for the FSX: domestic development, adoption of an existing domestic model, or adoption of a foreign model. www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-7328.html

Japan Defense Agency Calls For Pre-Emptive Strikes TOKYO — A Defense Agency panel has compiled a report calling for the need for Japan to possess the capability to launch a pre-emptive strike on a foreign enemy facility, such as a ballistic missile launch site, sources close to the panel said Thursday. The move is expected to spark debate as it could be seen to deviate from Japan's defense-only policy. The government holds the view it is constitutionally permissible for Japan to attack enemy bases but has opted not to possess weapons for the purpose so as not to threaten other countries. www.propagandamatrix.com /articles/september2004/300904agencycalls.htm

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Comments (Japan Times, Sep. 1, 2004) The Defense Agency requested 4.933 trillion yen for its fiscal 2005 budget to update the Self-Defense Forces to make them better prepared to counter terrorist, guerrilla, missile and other threats. In Soccer Loss, a Glimpse of China's Rising Ire at Japan By Jim Yardley (New York Times, Aug. 9, 2004) The most strident criticism of Japan now comes from a generation born long after the end of the war, which in China is known as the War of Resistance against Japan. China Must Shake Off the Past in Ties with Japan By Zhao Quansheng (Straits Times, Nov. 7, 2003) It is time for both Beijing and Tokyo to re-examine their foreign policies towards each other. www.taiwansecurity.org /TSR-Japan-2004.htm

US-Japan Project Oral History Program Though Japan has recently passed a Freedom of Information Act, its impact upon scholarly access to significant Japanese official records remains to be determined, leaving such interviews a critical source of information on the making of foreign, defense and economic policies within the Japanese government. The National Security Archive U.S.-Japan Project would like to express its appreciation to the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership for its generous support of the Project's Oral History Program in Japan, and to Professors Iokibe and Murata, and their associates for their efforts in support of this program. As many of the interviews presented translation challenges in connection with idiomatic expressions and other instances of technical language, we are also providing copies of the original Japanese transcripts, which can be downloaded in Adobe PDF format. www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/japan/ohpage.htm

Pacifist Japan's defense chief wants ministerial rank Ono is director general of the Defense Agency which is under direct control of the Cabinet Office, unlike the powerful finance and foreign ministries which can propose bills on their own to the parliament, called the Diet. The head of Japan's Defense Agency called for the body to be given full ministry status on Friday, a sensitive issue in a country that has been officially pacifist since its World War II defeat. "We could not submit laws or anything to the Diet in the name of Mr Ono, in the name of the director-general of the defense agency," Ono said. www.spacewar.com /2005/050107110445.elwyrz5u.html

Wednesday, March 24, 1999   The Defense Agency once looked into the possibility of requisitioning some of the nation's civilian airports and seaports for the U.S. military's use under the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA).             The Defense Agency, in its procurement reform plan, is to include breaking up the CPO into a cost-accounting division and a contract division in the process of central government reorganization starting in January 2001.             One of the Defense Agency's officials notes, "There are so many commercial flights to and from Narita Airport and other domestic airports. www.usc.edu /isd/archives/dsjp/summaries/1999/March/Sm990324.htm

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Embassy of Japan (3) On January 7, Japan’s Minister of State for Defense Yoshinori Ono gave orders to dispatch two special Self-Defense Forces units: One for medical and air transport assistance and the other for sea transport assistance. (3) On January 7, Japan ’s Minister of State for Defense Yoshinori Ono gave orders to dispatch two special Self-Defense Forces units: One for medical and air transport assistance and the other for sea transport assistance. Japan, in light of the massive damage in the coastal areas along the Andaman Sea in Thailand, has decided to dispatch another Japan Disaster Relief Expert Team consisting of three experts to identify the disaster victims by extraction and examination of DNA specimens. www.embjapan.org /english/html/pressreleases/2005/011205.htm

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Japan Self-Defense Forces Humanitarian and Reconstruction Activities in Iraq Japan's defence agency could be upgraded to a ministry this year, its head said yesterday, signalling growing confidence that the agency can play a bigger role in moulding the country's security agenda. The agency, which controls the self defence forces (SDF), the equivalent of Japan's armed forces under its US-written pacifist constitution, was stripped of its ministerial status after the second world war. I just hope that their defense forces do better against the bean-counters than ours and Britain's have so far. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1318333/posts   (1566 words)

DefenseNews.com - U.S. Moves To Sell Japan SM-2 Missiles - 06/06/05 17:31 The Pentagon’s Defense Security and Cooperation Agency said Japan requested the missiles for use on ships of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force fleet and said it would enhance Japan’s defense of critical sea-lanes. “It is vital to the U.S. national interest to assist Japan to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability, which will contribute to an acceptable military balance in the area,” the agency said. The U.S. Defense Department notified Congress on June 6 of a proposed sale to Japan of 40 SM-2 Block IIIB surface-to-air missiles built by Raytheon Co., in a deal valued at up to $104 million. www.defensenews.com /story.php?F=896681&C=america   (214 words)

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