Civil Defense in Japan (eBook, ePUB)

Issues and Challenges
Redaktion: Takeda, Yasuhiro; Kawashima, Yusuke; Ito, Jun

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 2004, Japan instituted a system to protect citizens against military attacks and terrorism for the first time after World War II. Faced with the changing security environment in East Asia, the Japanese government was forced to implement the most extensive reform of its domestic crisis management ("Kiki-Kanri") system in the postwar era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003817239
• Artikelnr.: 69227273

Autorenporträt

Yasuhiro Takeda is a professor in the Department of International Relations at Tokyo International University, Japan, and an Emeritus Professor at the National Defense Academy, Japan. Jun Ito is an associate professor in the Department of Global Liberal Arts, Faculty of International Communication at Aichi University, Japan. Yusuke Kawashima is an associate professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ibaraki University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Editors

List of Contributors

List of Japanese Laws and Acts

Introduction: Questioning Japan's Outdated Safety Myths

Yasuhiro Takeda

Chapter 1. A Guide to Japan's Crisis Management System: History, Laws, and Policies

Jun Ito

Chapter 2. Decentralization and Integration in Civil Protection Governance

Yusuke Kawashima

Chapter 3. Local Governments' Crisis Management Systems: Conflicts over Cooperation

Ken Kato

Chapter 4. An Overview of and Issues in Legislative Management Regarding Civil Protection in Armed Attack Situations

Hironobu Nakabayashi

Chapter 5. The Civil Protection Trap: Why Government-led Evacuation Plans for War and Terrorism are Impractical

Naofumi Miyasaka

Chapter 6. The Realities of Civil Protection Training in Local Governments

Yusuke Kawashima, Jun Ito, and Daisuke Hakiai

Chapter 7. A Response to the Civil Protection Plans of Japan's Municipalities for the Problems of the Remote Islands

Koji Furukawa

Chapter 8. The Private Sector Response to Ballistic Missile Attacks

Takashi Ashizawa

Chapter 9. Two Approaches to Responding to Destructive Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure in Japan: Addressing Cyber Crises as "Service Failures" or "Armed Attacks"

Takahisa Kawaguchi

Chapter 10. Pitfalls in Japan's Civil Protection Framework: A Reconsideration Based on a Red Team Attack Scenario Policy Simulation

Tomoaki Honda

Chapter 11. Japan's Changing Approach to Dealing with Rumors in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters and War

Masahiro Hayashi

Conclusion

Yasuhiro Takeda

References

Index