[특집] 일본의 첨단 기술력과 군사력

• 영문명: Japan's High Technology and Military Power: case Studies of Information and Communications Technology and Aerospace Technology
• 발행기관: 한국전략문제연구소
• 저자명: 박한규
• 간행물 정보: 『전략연구』통권 제21호, 96~139쪽, 전체 44쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 정치외교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2001.03.31

영문 초록

This study seeks to illuminate the relationship between high technology and military power in Japan's security policy in the post-Cold War era. Especially, it makes an effort to understand how the idea of technonationalism, which has been embedded in Japan's political and economic institutions since the Meiji Restoration, is adopted in the development of information and communication technology and Aerospace technology that have become crucial elements in the contemporary warfare.In the post-Cold War period, Japan's security policy is at a crossroad. While Japan had adopted risk-minimization strategy during the postwar period, it had restrained itself from being involved in international political and security affairs. However, Japan's passive security policy had been much criticized by the United States and Western European countries in that Japan was not willing to contribute enough to the maintenance of the current world political and economic order in which Japan has benefited most. At the same time, there also appeared strong domestic pressure for enlarging Japan's international security role in correspondence with its changed position in the international system.While being faced with demands for enlarged security role home and abroad, Japan has made important policies which aimed at strengthening its military capabilities. In 1995, the Japanese Government announced a renewed defense policylines including “New Outline of Defense Plan,” and “Mid-Tenn Plan for Defense Build-up.” The most crucial element of the Japan's renewed security policy was as follows: Japan will pursue rationalization, effectiveness, compactness of the size and function of Self-Defense Forces(SDF) in response with evolving international security environment in the future. That is to say, the Japanese Government decided that while it would downsize SDF, it would maintain and acquire a highof defense capabilities through introducing and adopting high technology to military power.Japan's decision toward high-technology-based military power seems to be rational choice in the Japanese context. By downsizing the SDF, Japan can reduce significantly concerns from neighboring countries about Japan's military power. At the same time, Japan can maintain a high-level military preparedness to cope with new security threats in the post-Cold War period.The possibility that Japan will become a super military power in the future seems to be high if one considers the characteristics of future war. Since the Gulf War of 1991, many security and military experts predict that the result of the future war totally depends on information and communication technology and aerospace technology. Such characteristics of the future war gives many advantagesto Japan which already possesses high technological capability in the fields of semiconductor, new materials, information and communications, computer, aerospace, etc. Japan has now the most advanced level of dual-use technology which can be easily converted to military purpose. If Japan would decide to covert those dual-use technologies to enhance its military power, Japan can become a military superpower in a short period of time.Japan has made every effort to develop indigenous technology in the information and communication field and aerospace field with a massive sum of financial investment. Japan could meet its needs for advanced jet fighters and satellites much cheaper through direct purchase from foreign countries such as the United States.However, Japan chose to develop indigenous technologies by paying an enormous amount of loyalties to foreign countries. Japan did so because it has pursued economic development and enhancement of national security through indigenization of. foreign technologies based on the ideology of technonationalism.Japan has succeeded in developing advanced aerospace technology independently. Japan has now become one of the most advanced countries in the satellite and rocket indu

목차

Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 기술민족주의(techno-nationalm)의 개념

Ⅲ. 일본의 정보통신기술력과 군사력

Ⅳ. 일본의 우주항공기술력과 군사력

Ⅴ. 탈냉전기 일본의 방위정책:첨단기술군의 양성

Ⅵ. 결론