Unlike the United States and China, Japan has not shown direct concern for a contingency situation in North Korea. Under Japan’s so-called “peace constitution” and related laws which have restricted any aggressive military posture toward other countries, Japan has maintained a passive attitude in terms of security policy.
Despite the strict restrictions on its military posture under the present constitution, Japan has gradually developed plural measures and related laws concerning the emergent situation, which implies a break-out of all-out war on the Korean peninsular after the end of cold war period. Furthermore Japanese intellectuals influenced by brisk discussions in the U.S. and South Korea began to discuss the possibilities of North Korean contingency and suggest appropriate Japanese responses to it, although such discussions are not led to any concrete policies or measures on the level of governmental official decisions.
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