The impact of declining defense budgets on Japan maritime self defense force

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the impact of declining defense budgets on the JMSDF. Because of the huge debt of the Government of Japan (GOJ) and financial structural reform, the GOJ is trying to reduce all expenditures, including defense expenditures. Conversely, Japan and countries in i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ikeda, Ryo
Other Authors: Mutty, John
Published: Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/3415