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The End of Alliance “Business as Usual”? Ozawa's Rejection of Japan's Indian Ocean Deployment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Richard Tanter
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The defeat of the ruling Liberal Democratic party-led coalition by the Democratic Party of Japan in Japan's Upper House elections on July 29 has already sent shock waves through the US-Japan security alliance. Surprising many who saw only his bullying style and right wing policies, DPJ leader Ozawa Ichiro moved quickly to set the DPJ on a course deeply antagonistic to US hopes for Japan as a global military partner.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 8 , August 2007 , e13
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Indonesian translation available: http://jepangindonesia.wordpress.com/

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[1] With New Upper House Majority, Ozawa Steps Up Attacks On Govt, NikkeiNet, 8 August 2007.

[2] Ruling Parties To Accept DPJ's Demand On Troop Deployment, NikkeiNet, 7 August 2007.

[3] Ozawa To Mull Submitting Bill To Cancel SDF Dispatch To Iraq, NikkeiNet, 7 August 2007.

[4] Ozawa To Mull Submitting Bill To Cancel SDF Dispatch To Iraq, NikkeiNet, 7 August 2007.

[5] UN Security Council Resolution 1746 (2007).

[6] DPJ Rejects Schieffer's Request To Extend Antiterrorism Operations, NikkeiNet, August 8, 2007.

[7] Japan, U.S. Conclude Pact On Protecting Shared Military Info, NikkeiNet, 10 August 2007.

[8] For example, Hidemichi Katsumata, “MSDF Mission Key for Japan/ Reinvigorated opposition shouldn't hinder antiterror law extension”, Daily Yomiuri Online, 7 August 2007: “If Japan departs from this circle now, it will isolate itself in the international community.”

[9] “Editorial: Newly Powerful DPJ Must Avoid Partisan Gamesmanship”, NikkeiNet, August 8, 2007.

[10] Hidemichi Katsumata, “MSDF Mission Key for Japan/ Reinvigorated opposition shouldn't hinder antiterror law extension”, Daily Yomiuri Online, 7 August 2007.

[11] Masako Ikegami, NATO and Japan: Strengthening Asian stability, NATO Review, Summer 2007.

[12] “Japan and NATO: Toward Further Collaboration”, Statement by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the North Atlantic Council, 12 January 2007.

[13] Incoming U.S. official hopes Japan will dispatch SDF to Afghanistan, Afghanistan News Center, June 29, 2007 (Kyodo).

[14] Hidemichi Katsumata, MSDF Mission Key for Japan, Yomiuri, August 7, 2007.

[15] “Editorial: Newly Powerful DPJ Must Avoid Partisan Gamesmanship”, NikkeiNet, August 8, 2007.

[16] Japan's DPJ Won't Back Extension of Anti-Terror Law, Ozawa Says, Keiichi Yamamura and Stuart Biggs, Bloomberg, 8 August 2007.

[17] The best systematic coverage of the MSDF deployment chronology and composition is “Jieitai Indoyo haken (Dispatch of SDF to the Indian Ocean) at Wikipedia (Japanese)

[18] Richard Tanter, The MSDF Indian Ocean deployment - blue water militarization in a “normal country”, Japan Focus, May 15, 2006

[19] Incoming U.S. official hopes Japan will dispatch SDF to Afghanistan, Afghanistan News Center, June 29, 2007 (Kyodo).

[20] Richard Tanter, ‘With Eyes Wide Shut: Japan, Heisei Militarization and the Bush Doctrine’ in Melvin Gurtov and Peter Van Ness (eds.), Confronting the Bush Doctrine: Critical Views from the Asia-Pacific, (New York: Routledge, 2005), and Richard Tanter, About face: Japan's remilitarisation, CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, Tokyo, November 2006.

[21] DPJ's Ozawa Talks Tough In Meeting With U.S. Envoy Schieffer, NikkeiNet, 9 August 2007.

[22] See for example Ozawa Ichiro, Nihon kaizo keikaku (Plan for Japan's Reconstruction) (Tokyo: Kodansha,1993).