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The Overseas Dispatch of Japan's Self-Defense Forces and U.S. War Preparations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Narusawa Muneo  and
Richard H. Minear
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Regardless of Prime Minister Abe's attempt to make the case that collective self-defense is constitutional, for some time the Self-Defense Forces have been working to achieve for Japan the status of a “state that can wage war overseas.” Behind this movement wriggles U.S. intent.

“Solely defensive” has been rescinded and the ground prepared for the coming right of collective self-defense. Consider the following examples.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 31 , July 2014 , e2
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