Japan 2025: Foreign Policy Transformation in Eight Postwar Decades - Focusing on Security Strategy and Risk Management

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The aim is to analyze the transformation of Japan's foreign policy over 80 years from a risk management perspective.
Conceptualization of Japan's shift from reactive state to risk state.
Examine key events, including the establishment of the National Security Council in 2013 and revisions to security documents in 2022.
Utilize frameworks of risk society theory and crisis narratives to trace the three-stage process of risk recognition, framing, and institutionalization.
Japan exhibits structural bias in overreacting to military risks while underestimating social and environmental risks.
These biases stem from the long-term domination of the Liberal Democratic Party and a conservative political process.
The study suggests collaboration between Japan and South Korea as joint risk managers in supply chains, technology, and climate crises.

Analyzes Japan's security strategy shifts, suggesting cooperation in risk management.

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Young-geun Kim (2026) studied this question.

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