Shinnichi Bei Ampo Ron (Shueisha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] A quarter of a century has passed since the end of the Cold War. Since then, the Japan-U.S. security arrangement has been maintained despite changes in the international situation. However, with the advent of the Trump administration, which has called for "more burdens to be borne if we want to be protected in the future," the very nature of Japan's security arrangement with the U.S. is being questioned. Is it really necessary to continue to place importance on the dependent alliance with the U.S., symbolized by the Status of Forces Agreement? A former defense bureaucrat, a disarmament expert, and a security expert, who has served as a sounding board for successive Japanese cabinets, discuss Japan's security in the midst of the Senkaku issue, the war on terror, and developments in North Korea, among other drastic changes in the situation. Here are the fundamental issues of national security that cannot be avoided.

冷戦終結後四半世紀。以来、国際情勢の変化にもかかわらず日米の安全保障体制は維持されてきた。しかし「今後も守って欲しければさらなる負担を」と訴えるトランプ政権の登場で、日本はアメリカとの安全保障体制の在り方そのものを問われている。果たして日米地位協定に象徴される従属的なアメリカとの同盟関係を今後も重視する必要はあるのか?尖閣問題、対テロ戦争、北朝鮮の動向など、激変する情勢下、日本の安全保障を、歴代内閣のご意見番であった元防衛官僚、武装解除のエキスパート、安全保障の専門家が徹底的に語り合う。避けては通れない国防の根本的な問題がここにある。