Japan’s aging peace: pacifism and militarism in the twenty-first century by Tom Phuong Le, Columbia University Press, 2021, 368 pp., £28.00 (paperback)

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Mason, Ra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4950-9516 (2023) Japan’s aging peace: pacifism and militarism in the twenty-first century by Tom Phuong Le, Columbia University Press, 2021, 368 pp., £28.00 (paperback). Asian Studies Review, 47 (2). pp. 416-418. ISSN 1035-7823

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Abstract

Through this cleverly framed volume, Le makes the persuasive argument that for Japan, ‘cultural, demographic, and economic forces have limited its embrace of conventional militarism as a tool of statecraft’ (6). In doing so, Le situates his study in relation to the existing International Relations literature (e.g., Hughes, 2005; Samuels, 2007; Umeda, 2007) to set out how Japan’s much maligned and supposedly intensifying militarism is poorly accounted for by current scholarship, or at least requires contextualising within the bounds of multi-fold limitations and influences.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Centre for Japanese Studies
Related URLs:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 Jun 2023 08:30
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 10:00
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92302
DOI:	10.1080/10357823.2023.2169032

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