Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to attend a book talk: Japan's Evolving Security Policy: Militarisation within a Pacifist Tradition

Please register:
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/events/all/japans-evolving-security-policy <https://www.latrobe.edu.au/events/all/japans-evolving-security-policy>

Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm AEST (12:00 p.m. Tokyo Time)
Date: Tuesday 8 June 2021
Japan has been expanding its military roles in the post-Cold War period. While the conventional security threats associated with China's military rise and North Korea's nuclear weapons are still present, Japan has increased its roles in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, introduced a new arms trade policy, and expanded the SDF's military roles.

How have domestic norms and political interests contributed to this trend? How does Japan balance a desire to broaden its military role without violating the pacifist domestic norm? And how will it expand relations with other states to pursue its economic and security interests in a changing region?

The book launch of /Japan's Evolving Security Policy: Militarisation within a Pacifist Tradition <https://www.routledge.com/Japans-Evolving-Security-Policy-Militarisation-within-a-Pacifist-Tradition/Hatakeyama/p/book/9780367819026>/ by Kyoko Hatakeyama, published by Routledge.

Panel:

* Professor Kyoko Hatakeyama, Graduate School of International Studies
and Regional Development, University of Niigata Prefecture
* Professor Nick Bisley, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social
Sciences, La Trobe University
* Associate Professor Nobuhiro Aizawa, Department of Cultural Studies,
Kyushu University

Chair:Dr. Bec Strating, Executive Director, La Trobe Asia