Abstract
Abe has pursued the transformation of Japan’s national security policy with extraordinary rapidity since 2012. Abe has introduced Japan’s first National Security Strategy (NSS) and National Security Council (NSC), a State Secrecy Law, a revised National Defence Programme Guidelines (NDPG) and increased defence budgets and a new ‘Three Principles of Defence Equipment Transfers’. Most significantly, Abe has breached the post-war ban on the exercise of the right of collective self-defence, opening the way for Japan to provide military support to the US and other states in a variety of contingencies. Although Abe’s reforms have been portrayed as limited and proportionate, they have in fact significantly lowered the constitutional and political constraints on Japan’s use of military power and established new precedents for regional and global deployments of the JSDF.
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