Strategic Culture Of Japan

Abstract

The purpose of the article is calling attention on the role of Japan in forming in the Asia and Pacific region new international order, by a prism of its strategic culture. Therefore, it is necessary to answer the question if by the reason of its both economic and technological might is Japan able for playing full-dimension role of world-power? Or playing that role is limited by strategic culture of Japan? What are the factors of Japan’s strategic culture in the past and presently? In the paper the author verifies the following hypothesis – Japan’s strategic culture is changing in spite of internal institutional antimilitarism.