Quiet Deterrence - Building Japan’s New National Security Strategy - Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation

This commission delved into the fundamental causes of the accident, examined the adequacy of the accident response, and analyzed the political and organization-cul- tural structures that contributed to the failure of Japan’s nuclear safety regulations. [...] With the collapse of the economic bubble in the 1990s the country went through almost two decades of drift, and the magnitude of the demographic and economic restructuring challenges remain daunting, in spite of the initial success of Abenomics. [...] Finally, as the author’s note, it will be critical to develop the 16 “capacity to collect information from various channels and sources and subsequently to integrate, analyze, and present a set of appropriate pol- icy options to the Prime Minister.” In the United States the intelligence briefings for the President are completely independent from the NSC to prevent politicization of intelligence, b. [...] It is crucially important for Japan to envisage the strategic environment of the 21st century, to reestablish national priorities, to assess and reallocate national resources, and to reinvigorate Japan’s role in the region and on the global stage. [...] As described below, Japan’s diplomatic and security policies now face domestic and inter- national environments of unprecedented complexity: • The rise of China, the change of distribution of power, the un- certainty of the direction in which China is moving, and its asser- tiveness towards other countries; 23 • The realignment of the United States global strategy and ‘rebalanc- ing’ to the Asia-P.