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Creating Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, 19452015A Sword Well Made\nAuthor(s): David Hunter-Chester\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498537896, 978-1498537896\nSynopsis\nCreating Japans Ground Self-Defense Force, [tel] is a timely contribution to postwar Japan security studies. It is the first comprehensive account of Japans post-1945 army, including a comprehensive institutional history, together with the evolution of roles and missions and the adoption of successive professional identities. The organizational history is embedded within a thorough examination of Japans own defense policy, as well as of Americas policy of alliance with Japan. The book examines and challenges assumptions about the drafting and adoption of the War Renunciation clause of Japans postwar Peace Constitution, Article 9, which uniquely not only renounces war, but the arms to wage war. Thus Japans army is not called an army, bu.