Entering the third decade of the 21st century, Japan will have to face the new security challenges posed by the COVID-19 and manage its current relations with the United States and China, among others. This book focuses on internal and external factors that are influencing current Japanese security policy.

Security relations between Japan and its East Asia neighbors have been complicated for decades. Entering the third decade of the 21st century, Japan will have to face new security challenges posed by COVID-19 and manage its current relations with the United States, China and South Korea. Mitigating local and global security threats will be one of the most critical challenges for the future. This book focuses on internal and external factors that are influencing current Japanese security policy and analyses the security issues from numerous perspectives, including social issues and their effect on security policies, bilateral relations between Japan and its partners in Asia, and the significance of the U.S.-Japan Alliance.

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Olga Barbasiewicz (Ph.D) Assistant Professor at the Institute of Middle and Far East of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research interests are memory politics, Japanese-Korean relations and migration studies in wartime East Asia. Maciej Pletnia (Ph.D) Assistant Professor at Jagiellonian University, Institute of the Middle and the Far East. His research interests includes Japanese politics of memory, collective identity, nationalism, Japanese international relations, and the Yasukuni dilemma.

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The Changing Security Policy in 21 st Century Japan

An Aging Demography and Foreign and Security Policy

Normalization" of Japanese Defense Policy from the Perspective of IR Theories

South Korea and Japan Bilateral Relations in the Times of COVID-19

South Korea in the Quad-plus Group

Japan-India Strategic Partnership