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Contents
ACRONYMS 8
ABSTRACT 10
I. Introduction 12
1.1. Background 12
1.2. Purpose of the study and research questions 13
II. Conceptual framework for Japan's security policy 16
2.1. Necessity of new identity and security policy 16
2.2. Normal State 19
2.3. Global Civilian Power 20
2.4. Characterization of Japan's security policy 22
1) SDF's overseas dispatch as UN peacekeeper 22
2) NDPG's amendment 24
3) Stronger relationship with the US 25
III. Leading factors for Japan's security policy 29
3.1. North Korea's threat 29
3.2. China's military expansionism 36
IV. Changing process of Japan's security policy 41
4.1. System of Japan's defense documents 41
4.2. National Defense Program Guidelines 44
4.3. Analysis of NDPGs 48
V. Conclusion 63
Reference 66
ABSTRACT IN KOREAN 70
Table 1. Process of revision of The Guidelines for Japan-U.S.... 27
Table 2. Record of North Korea's provocation 32
Table 3. Development status of North Korea's missile 34
Table 4. Major equipment of the China's navy in 2010... 37
Table 5. China's defense spending from 2000 - 2009 39
Table 6. The defense document's system of Japan 42
Table 7. The process of revision the Defense Enhancement Program... 43
Table 8. Changing of the major legislation... 50
Table 9. Process of NDPG's revision 54
Table 10. System of Ballistic Missile Defense 58
Table 11. System of the Maritime Self - Defense Force 59
Table 12. System of the Air Self-Defense Force 61
Figure 1. North Korean missile launches 30
Figure 2. China's defense spending from 2008 - 2017 39