英文摘要 |
On September 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) replaced the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and became the ruling party. DPJ has shown different diplomatic and security ideals from those of LDP, endeavoring to strengthen Japan-China relations to balance U.S-Japan relations and pursue an 'equal U.S.-Japan alliance.' However, these diplomatic ideals have been defeated by real security interests. Security and defense policies are different from economic, social, and internal policies in that they are not as easily influenced by the domestic politics. A country's objective security environment cannot be changed at a leader's will, regardless of the leader's position as a conservative or radical politician. In the Post-Hatoyama era, DPJ has abandoned the neo-liberalist diplomacy route and returned to the offensive realism ideals to construct the new diplomatic and defense and security policies. This paper is aimed at analyzing DPJ's amendments to the National Defense Program Guidelines and exploring the future of Japan-China security relations. |