The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force
Midford, Paul / Eldridge, Robert D.
Based on extensive Japanese-language materials, this book is the first to examine the development of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force. It addresses: how the GSDF was able to emerge as the post-war successor of the Imperial Japanese Army despite Japan’s anti-militarist constitution, how the GSDF, despite the public skepticism and even hostility that greeted its creation, built domestic and international legitimacy, and how the GSDF has respon...
