Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Comparative aspects and theoretical framework
  • Decision-making structure and players
  • Creation of the National Defense Program Outline and the 1 percent ceiling of the gross national product
  • The decision to break the 1 percent ceiling of the gross national product
  • Re-evaluation of the National Defense Program Outline
  • The midterm operations estimate in the 1980s and Japan's response to the Gulf War of 1991
  • The National Defense Program Outline of 1995
  • The Guidelines for United States-Japan Defense Cooperation of 1978 and 1997 and the National Defense Program Outline of 2004.