Regional Risk and Security in Japan

In their book entitled Regional Risk and Security in Japan , Glenn D. Hook, Ra Mason, and Paul O'Shea show how Japan's national security policy regarding two of its regional neighbors, and one influential actor in the region, all give rise to alternative risks in Japan's domestic society, namely the general public. Scholars in the field of International Relations have for a while tried connecting the dots between risk and security. It has been a challenging task since risk assessment directs scholars to quantitative analyses and risk calculations, stepping away from traditional methodologies. This book, however, does not go down that path. Although this book does not offer the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ on preventing critical security clashes and potential policies to deal with them, it seeks to explore how risks are narrated, constructed, and ultimately distributed in the everyday life of Japan that may result in harms to its people: in other words, it provides an important linkage between the state and its people regarding security issues by utilizing the risk recalibration process. Thus, the idea of risk used in this book departs from previous studies on risk and treats it as ‘a heuristic device to illuminate how the recalibration of risk is manifested as harm to the security of the people’

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