| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Japan has sent its Self Defense Forces (SDF) abroad since 1992 to Cambodia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Golan Heights, East Timor, and Iraq. Studies on the SDF's overseas activities including field research in Golan Heights have revealed several problems to be noted. (Because of the security condition and the termination of mission, planned field researches on Iraq and East Timor were suspended.) First, the SDF's overseas activities suffered from adaptation disorder, so to speak. Though the mandates in the fields essentially demand the contribution as a military organization, SDF essentially has restriction on military action due to the Japan's Constitution. The gap between what ought to be done and what is allowed to do is serious to the SDF. Second, there needs to be made clear distinction between the natures of SDF's overseas dispatch. There is difference between SDF's dispatch for the purpose of national interests based on the tie with US and its dispatch for the purpose of the international community's interests based on the multinationalism. Otherwise, the sending of SDF may leads to military expansionism, and the case of Iraq causes concern of this kind. Third, civil-military relations in peace building activities is a significant and emergent theme to be tackled. Given the recent activation of peace building missions, more and more collaboration between military sectors and civilian sectors is needed, but the collaboration of this sort is very controversial since it has the merits and the demerit. SDF cannot skip this agenda if it continues the overseas missions.
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