Titlebook: Japanese Public Opinion and the War on Terrorism; Robert D. Eldridge (associate professor of Japanes Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a divis

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Introduction,by “opinion”? Is opinion a stable attitude or simply a temporary view? If it is the latter, is this view based on imprecise information or sound reasoning? Is an opinion conditional? Is it temporary? Are opinions organized into coherent structures of attitude and belief, or are they jumbled and inco

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Japanese Mass Opinion toward the War on Terrorism,of the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) ships to the Indian Ocean in the fall of 2001, their continued operations there, and the dispatch of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) and Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) to Iraq in 2003–2004. Secondary foci include views of the threat posed by internationa

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Framing the Japanese Homeland Security Debate: Mass Media and Public Opinion,e face of asymmetrical threats. The twenty-four Japanese victims of 9/11, the killing of Japanese nationals in Iraq, and the dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to join the international effort against terrorism have made the war on terrorism a not-so-distant reality to many Japanese. Both Chi

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Japanese Political Parties Face Public Opinion: Leading, Responding, or Ignoring?,in Japan. In contrast to American debates between elitists. and pluralists,. with respect to Japan the elitist view has dominated. Public opinion is often claimed to have had little influence on Japanese foreign policy, and public opinion is often seen as subject to elite molding.

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Japanese Civil Society, NGOs, and Spatialized Politics: Mobilizing Public Opinion and the War in Ird’s GDP outstrips any other nation in the region, and the new triad of power—aid, trade, and investment—should put it in a strong potential leadership role, but in fact Japan has few followers. Doubts linger as those in policy-making positions as well as those at the fringes of policy-making send ou

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Conclusions,m. As discussed throughout this book, Japanese, both mass and elite, are increasingly willing to distinguish justifiable wars for the sake of national defense against an imminent threat, moving away from the tendency to see all wars as equally unjustified. However, at the same time, Japanese continu

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