State of the Japanese State

Gavan McCormack is Emeritus Professor, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. In 2008 he was jointly awarded (on behalf Japan Focus) Ryukyu shimpo’s Inaugural Ikemiyagi Shui prize for promotion of international understanding of Okinawan issues. His published works (including translated and edited volumes) are considerable. In 2007, he published Client State: Japan in the American Embrace, and most recently (2018), co-authored with Satoko Oka Norimatsu, the second, revised, paperback edition of Resistant Islands: Okinawa versus Japan and the United States.

• Preface Chapter 1 : The Improbable Package The Improbable Package – Imperial, Pacifist, Democratic Peace, Asia, and Article 9 San Francisco and “Normalization” Abe 1: 1993–2007 Abe 2: 2012–2016 Abe 3: 2017–2018 Chapter 2 : The Client State Poodle Powers Servility Challenging Clientelism, 2005–2010 Positive Pacifism Japan the Beautiful Chapter 3: The Client State’s Client State Japan in the East [China] Sea Inclusion/Exclusion, and Deceit An “Okinawan Way” “Kempakusho” and “All Okinawa” The Enigmatic Governor Court Proceedings • The Experts Report, 2015 • Wakai/Conciliation, 2016 • Speed Trial, 2016 • State of Play, 2017–2018 Chapter 4: Okinawa – State Violence and Civic Resistance Public Enemy Number One Civil Suits Security Struggle without End Table : Japan vs Okinawa, 1995–2018 Chapter 5: Around the East [China] Sea China North Korea • Rogue Regime • North Korea “as it is” • On Global Tables • Rehearsing Invasion • Sanctions and Law Russia and the Putin Plan South-Western Frontier Islands – Yonaguni, Miyako, and Ishigaki Mage Island Senkaku/Diaoyu Communities Chapter 6 : The Construction State Resilience Sustainability Contents vii The Nuclear State The Ever Faster State War and Gambling Chapter 7 : The Constitutional State Popular Sovereignty and Symbolic Emperor Revision Agendas • I: Cold War era • II: LDP, 2012 • III: Abe, 2014–2017 • Emperor vs. Prime Minister • Unresolved Contradictions Chapter 8 : The Rampant State Ikkyo – “One Strong” Moritomo Gakuen Kake Gakuen Veterinary College Conspiracy Secrets Abe Triumphant, October 2017 Chapter 9 : Conclusion Afterword Index