Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force

Robert D. Eldridge is Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo, and the author or translator of several dozen books about Japan including most recently, The Origins of U.S. Policy in the East China Sea Islands Dispute: Okinawa’s Reversion and the Senkaku Islands.Paul Midford is Professor of Political Science and Director of the NTNU Japan Program at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.  He is the author of Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From Pacifism to Realism?

• 1. Organization and Structure of the GSDF.- 2. The Early Years of the Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945-1960.- 3. The GSDF during the Cold War, 1960-1989.- 4. The GSDF in the Post-Cold War Years, 1989-2013.- 5. The History and Contemporary State of Civilian Control in Postwar Japan and the GSDF.- 6. The GSDF and Disaster Relief Dispatches.- 7. The GSDF’s Quest for Public Acceptance and the ‘Allergy’ Myth.iv>