In this volume the contributors argue that the events of 9-11 and the subsequent "war on terrorism" have had big implications for Japan. These events have called into question the assumptions and limits of Japan's war-renouncing constitution.

Autorentext
ROBERT D. ELDRIDGE is Associate Professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Japan.

PAUL MIDFORD is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

Inhalt
Japanese Mass Opinion towards the War on Terrorism Framing Japanese Homeland Security: Mass Media and Public Opinion Japan's Insider and Outside Media Discourse about the SDF Dispatch to Iraq Japanese Political Parties Face Public Opinion: Leading, Responding, or Ignoring? Japanese Intellectuals and Public Opinion in the War on Terrorism Japanese Civil Society, NGOs, and Spatializing Politics: Mobilization of Public Opinion and the War in Iraq Public Opinion in a Base Community: Okinawa and the War on Terrorism