The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer
Online ISSN : 2423-8546
Print ISSN : 2423-8538
ISSN-L : 2423-8538
Volume 2024, Issue 2
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  • MAHITO TAKEUCHI
    2024 Volume 2024 Issue 2 Pages 1-18
    Published: July 26, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: January 21, 2025
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    This paper analyzes the historical genealogy of the Anglosphere concept in order to examine the nature of interstate cooperation in the post-global era. Specifically, it examines the following historical backgrounds: the Greater Britain Initiative in the late 19th century, Joseph Chamberlain’s tariff reform movement and the Round Table movement in the early 20th century, Winston Churchill’s international order concept after World War I, Anglobalization after the end of the Cold War, the writings of Robert Conquest and James C. Bennett, and Brexit and the Global Britain Initiative. In order for the Anglosphere to strengthen the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States and to build good relations with Asian and African democracies in the Indo-Pacific region in the future, the core countries of the Anglosphere, consisting of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America, should cooperate with “like-minded countries” such as Japan and must overcome the racist origins of the Anglosphere concept and the negative legacy of imperialism.
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  • Focusing on Militourism in Hawaiʻi
    KAORI TAKADA
    2024 Volume 2024 Issue 2 Pages 19-44
    Published: July 26, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: January 21, 2025
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    Hawaiʻi has stood at the intersection of military strategy and tourism development, serving as a principal home port for the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet while concurrently becoming a sought-after tourist destination since attaining statehood in 1959. This paper delves into the intertwined dynamics of militarization and tourism in Hawaiʻi, exploring their evolution into an inseparable nexus. Centered on Hawaiʻi’s pivotal role in Pacific militarization and tourism, the paper examines the concurrent escalation of military fortification and nuclear proliferation during the Cold War era. It traces Hawaiian transformation from a strategic military outpost following its annexation by the United States in the 19th century to a focal point of global wartime air networks during World War II. In addition, it analyzes the resurgence of both military and civil aviation sectors during the Korean War and their subsequent impact on Hawaiʻi’s militarization. Attention is directed towards Hawaiian democratization movement following the Korean War, influencing further militarization efforts and shaping the state’s path to statehood. It focuses on “militourism” in Hawaiʻi, the center of the “American Lake,” offering valuable insights into the multifaceted relationship between military activities and tourism development in the region.
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  • Its Historical Significance and Future Tasks
    SATOSHI FUJITA
    2024 Volume 2024 Issue 2 Pages 45-61
    Published: July 26, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: January 21, 2025
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    This article focuses on the nighttime precision bombing campaign using a latest radar conducted by the United States Army Air Forces at the end of World War II. Previous studies have paid little attention to this campaign, which lasted from late June 1945 until the end of the war. This article shows that it has historical significance in that the mobilization of science, technology, and industry made possible certain tactics that were previously considered unfeasible. This campaign also suggests that the state of science, technology, and industrial policies determined the way the war was fought. This paper presents the future tasks whose completion is necessary to illuminate the overall picture of the campaign. First, it is necessary to clarify how the scientific, technological, and industrial bases that enabled these tactics were put in place and, second, to elucidate why oil-related facilities were selected as targets for nighttime precision bombing operations. By answering these questions, we will be able to offer a full perspective of nighttime precision bombing operations with the radar and, by extension, understand the characteristics of how the American military fought the war.
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  • Focus on Technology Transfer and the Development of Highly Skilled Talent
    HIDEYUKI SHIMOTOMAI
    2024 Volume 2024 Issue 2 Pages 63-78
    Published: July 26, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: January 21, 2025
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    What led India to produce highly skilled people during the Cold War? Why did some “brain drain” into the United States? During the Cold War, private foundations and universities worked with the U.S. government to develop a systematic technical assistance policy based on industry-academia-government cooperation. The diplomatic intention was also to bring India, which had maintained non-aligned neutrality, into the Western camp. U.S. technical assistance led to the establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, the “MIT of India,” and the training of Indian scientific and technical personnel proceeded smoothly. However, India did not have the industrial infrastructure to absorb such highly skilled talent. On the other hand, the United States has faced a serious shortage of human resources in critical fields that are crucial to national defense. As competition with the Soviet Union intensified during the Cold War, it became critical to attract young scientists and engineers from home and abroad became critical. The imbalance in the supply and demand of high-level human resources between the U.S. and India, along with changes in U.S. immigration policy, has resulted in the incorporation of many highly skilled Indian talents into the U.S. scientific and technological community.
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  • [in Japanese]
    2024 Volume 2024 Issue 2 Pages 79-93
    Published: July 26, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: January 21, 2025
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  • [in Japanese]
    2024 Volume 2024 Issue 2 Pages 95
    Published: July 26, 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: January 21, 2025
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