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Prospects for Hatoyama Cabinet's Foreign Policy

Prospects for Hatoyama Cabinet's Foreign Policy

Prospects for Hatoyama Cabinet's Foreign Policy

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Prospects for Hatoyama Cabinet's Foreign Policy
December 9, 2009
JO Yanghyeon
Professor
Dept. of Asian and Pacific Studies
Japan's foreign policy
platform is undergoing a
paradigm shift from the
"Yoshida Doctrine" of the
Cold War era to the concept
of "normal state." The basic objectives of
the "normal state" concept are to possess
defense capabilities befitting Japan's
economic capacity, positively make
international contributions with those
defense capabilities, and, if needed, dispatch
the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF)
overseas and revise the constitution to
that end. In terms of governing foreign
policy ideology, the Democratic Party
of Japan (DPJ) cabinet, which was
inaugurated in September 2009, shares
the "normal state" concept that has
taken root in Japan since the mid-1990s.
Japan will stay on the "militarily
normal state" path, which it has been
on since the end of the Cold War, as
well as, during the DPJ cabinet's rule.
Japan will not likely become a military
power in the foreseeable future, for the
DPJ cabinet has pledged to slash the
country's defense budget and inherit
the US-Japan security system. However,
moves toward "becoming independent
from the United States" will surface in
Japanese society, and against that
backdrop, Japan may be reborn as a
"normal state" in the true sense of the
word—a nation free to possess military
capabilities and exercise the right of
collective self-defense without a care
for US opinion. The LDP's endeavors
toward turning Japan into a normal
state were premised on realigning and
strengthening the US-Japan alliance; the
advent of the Hatoyama cabinet, which
espouses an "equal US-Japan relationship,"
signals riper conditions for Japan to build
independent security capabilities over the
medium to long term.

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