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Understanding Japan’s new security policy: constitutional and historical perspectives

Will Japan’s new security laws enable it to play a more active and constructive role in the Indo-Pacific region? In this seminar, Professor Naoyuki Agawa will explain the context for the laws, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s stated policy of “proactively contributing” to peace. Considerations include a changing security environment and the prospects for strengthening Japan's alliance with the US as well as security cooperation with Australia and other countries in the region. Professor Agawa will consider the debates around the new laws, including traditions of pacifism in Japanese society and a reluctance to dispatch the Self Defense Force overseas. Much will depend on how Japan’s new security policy interacts with public sentiment, politics and regional developments.