Abstract
International criticism of Japan's policy in the 1991 Gulf War prompted Japan to create a peacekeeping law, ‘the PKO law’ in 1992, to provide a legal framework for international peacekeeping activities. However, the PKO law imposed certain restrictions which complicated the missions of the Japanese Self Defense Forces (SDF) in operational fields. After 11 September 2001, the Japanese government created a new legal framework for peacekeeping and dispatched its SDF personnel to East Timor. Japan's participation in peacekeeping should be motivated by several factors, such as its desire to develop a distinctive international policy, its regional considerations and the military benefits that derive from peacekeeping. Several official UN reports, such as An Agenda for Peace in 1992 and the Brahimi Report in 2000, urge Japan to broaden its options in the types of mission that it undertakes. The burden-sharing with the United States also encourages Japan's regional role as a peacekeeper.
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