日本の安全保障と日米安保体制 -エッセイ風覚書

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This is a memoir-typed essay rather than a monogragh which discusses the Japan-U. S. security system.
The first chapter tittled the total reassessment of postwar security problem focuses on the process in which how the ‘security’ problem in Japan---one of the most important political issues during the ‘postwar’ period---has become an almost uncontrovertial issue among Japanese people in the 1980's. Taking a general view of the process, I think that the ‘final liquidation of the postwar period’ can be referred to, in a sense, as the ‘final liquidation of the postwar security problem’ in Japan. And I wonder what kind of factors have brought about the ‘final liquidation?’
The question over the revision of the Japan-U. S. Security Treaty in 1960 is discussed in the chapter two. As I was in the U. S. in 1960, when political uproar caused by this question occurred in Japan, I found it extremely difficult to understand the true state of the things because of lack of information on it. I especially got confused to see the fact that the target of the political movement in Japan had quickly changed, in a certain point of time, from ‘anti-Security Treaty’ to ‘anti-Kishi administration’ or ‘a defense of democratic parliamentary politics.’ It can be said in the final analysis that Japanese nationalism which had been tangibly or intangibly accumlated since occupation years flared up into such a chaotic movement with no clear-cut political goal on the occasion of the revision of the Japan-U. S. Security Treaty in 1960.
In the chapters three and four, I focused on the question of ‘free ride’ of Japan, and the question of reciprocality between the both countries in our Security Treaty. Controversies over the Japan's free ride regarding her peace and security were heavily discussed in the U. S. for ten odd years after the last half of 1960s. Certainly some people in Japan still have a deep-rooted view which goes along with the free rider's line of thought, however, my interpretation is that Japan and the U. S. are maintaining reciprocality in the security system, playing different type of roles each other. I find that not a few people in Japan tend to discuss the security problem existing between the two nations, without a clear understanding of its precise structure in this reciprocal mechanism. Therefore, I clarifies its basic structure in this chapter.
In the chapter five, I insert my dialogue with Mr. Hiroharu Seki which originally appeared in the ‘Shokun’ managine January 1970 issue. It goes without saying that Mr. Seki maintained that the Japan-U. S. Security Treaty had to be abolished, and that I was an advocate for the treaty. I would be appreciated if the debate make you realize how the countroversies over security of Japan were going at that time.
Finally I make a brief review, in the chapter six, as to how the policies of the Opposition parties regarding security of Japan have changed. The reason why controversies over the security problem have virtually faded away in Japan is due to the fact that the anti-Security Treaty forces have changed their basic stance with regard to security and that we have come to have a wider and solid acceptance of the Treaty and the Self-Defense Forces among the Japanese people. Since the establishment of the ‘Guidelines’ for Japan-U. S. defense cooperation in 1978, our security system has stepped into a new stage with a particular and concrete cooperative relationship between the two countries from the stage of general and abstract cooperation.